May 5, 1938, (Thurs)
     AM. To Museum of Science to judge the nature studies of the free sketching class conducted by the museum. Gordon Washburn and a Mr. Jacobs the other two jurors.
     Afterwards, Mr. and Mrs. Hamlin in who I think are patrons of the museum. Mention was made by someone of a collection of South Sea Island “art” objects belonging to them and of the possibility of seeing it. We were all invited to go “upstairs” to view it, but I pleaded an urgent luncheon engagement, for I felt I had been punished all I could stand already. I marvel at how some can go on and on looking at things, even fine things- or were they merely afraid of offending these wealthy people?
     PM. Michael Archangel Nasca from Fredonia in, whose visit, the result of my impulsive pity, I had dreaded. He had already made a false move by arriving early in the morning when the hour of his visit had been set at 1:30PM; excusing his appearance to his misjudgment of the distance from Buffalo to Gardenville (he rode a bicycle). My apprehension was well-founded - he turned out to be conceited arrogant and over-familiar. Why I do not fly into a rage and throw such people out is beyond me; I cannot seem to do it; more, when it came time to go, the heat being so sickening and oppressive, I volunteered to drive him part of the way home.
     I took Bertha & Arthur along for moral support. We went out the Southwest Blvd. A long, monotonous drive over a