Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967)

Feb. 19 – (Monday); A driving rain from the northeast all day – sketch of view east of here, with the poplar tree by my window in front; which delighted me.______; It came to me yesterday what it was about Pearson that I had not liked in camp. It came out in our visit, when he related that he had been in Germany studying during 1915 & 1916 – and had seen the conditions there. He saw no evidence of any of the atrocities that were being spread about here, and saying so, when he returned to this country, he was immediately set down as pro-german [sic]. I had so judged him in camp, but of course now I realize that it was unjust – he knew more than we gullible fools at the time. (??); ; ; ; ; Feb. 21 – (Wed.); Murmurings –; Feb. Jan 31 – Spring sunlight burning and quivering on the edge of a shadow in a building, while down below the great piles of snow lie in bleak cold shadows.; Feb. 15 – (Driving down to Lackawanna Station) water running in the streets thru ice-ruts – riveting hammers shatter the air.; Feb. 20 – Warm sunshiny day – slush in sheets; the very quality of slush is Feb. not January –; Feb. 21 – Down to 20° in the night – streets rough with frozen footsteps – (only at this stage of winter are there such extremes of temperature to cause such formations in ice.)