Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967)

July 28 – 30 –; Catharine to Hospital to have plate removed. Home Sunday noon, but must be in bed a week or so. ; ; Aug 1 – (Tues); To Emporium country sketching. ; Altho I had in mind the sketch of a pointed hill west of Emporium, I wanted to find a spot whence I could look out over hills. ; Dirt road to north from main road S.E. of Emporium. A narrow road, which having led me to a higher elevation which was completely shut in my woods, slanted downward. Again, young girl walking by road. I stopped and asked the way down. She said that the road reached the main road 2 miles further on, and added that she was on her way to visit her sister at the foot of the hill. I offered her a ride and she accepted. (She resembled Lois K. (W’s) somewhat in appearance, and her voice was identical); The road ended at last in a washout, and I had to go down a stony creek run in low-gear, and up a creek bank to another road, scraping the bottom of the car, all of which gave me a dubious thrill, soon after I dropped her off at her destination, I found the main road, and went back to Emporium taking the road up in the hills south, where was, so a man told me, a fire-tower. Here, I thought if anywhere, I could find a view over the hills. ; The tower proved to be off of the road about a mile, & reached by a winding trail that only faintly resembled a road. I