Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967)

 we would.; To the Home. Goodbye to LaVera & Violet – the (sic) with Evie to see if we could catch the mail-man. (We were expecting letters from Art & Mart.). Finally we spied him. He told us to wait at the mail box at the corner. – The friendly dog who allowed me to make a fuss over him & then, after the mailman appeared, refused to come but looked all the time.; Letters from Mart & Art, the letters containing directions on how to find him at the Field.; Final goodbye to Eve – stopped a few moments to make a sketch of Main St. (Set speedometer at 0) {Route 77 to Ark City then 166} ; Cedarville – Ice & groceries. Coffee-bean tree. Wanting a spray of the odd brown pods, but lacking the nerve to pull one in public, I enlisted the moral support of the ice-man. He was quite a character. Said the coffee-beans were poisonous to horses (why horses only?).; East of Cedarville – tiny sapling telephone holes – fantastic shapes…; 57 mi. – lunch by a bridge. 2:00 – 2:30. While B redding up on lunch things I gathered various plants & fruit. Enormous osage orange fruit – Kansas sunflower seeds, - sprays of persimmons etc. Delightful weather, cloudless skies.; Before & after Sedan – oaks. ; 105 mi. Coffeyville – 4:00.; 153.4. Great mountainous piles of gray refuse – a gas station man told us they were from lead mines – at one time the largest in the world. We made a detour southward (6 mi altogether) to Picher, Okla.