Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967)

 important connecting road. To by-pass St. Louis and get to Scott Field we were supposed to leave U.S. 66 & take U.S. 67 to Illinois 157 & then 158. We got onto 67 without difficulty, but we seemed to go miles & miles in a southerly direction, and we began to fear that we had somehow missed our connection with 157. It was lonely country, few lights & fewer houses. Eventually we decided to inquire our way so stopped at the first lighted farm-house. Set upon a high bank I had difficulty climbing up. Three dogs came bounding at me with a terrific clatter, but I made friends with them easily, and knocked at the back door. A woman peered cautiously out and I could see two more in the back ground. They were obviously frightened. I told them our difficulty and producing my map I suggested we could look at it better inside. “No, no, you can’t come in –” ……. The upshot being that they directed me to a gas station a short distance back.; At this station we learned that we had not gone too far after all, and that our connecting link to 157 & 158, was a country road called “VV,” which crossed V-V over the Mississippi and on the Jefferson Barracks Bridge. We found the road a couple miles further on, and after a little blundering on my part at the bridge, soon had crossed the river, and were headed east –; Not long until we reached a sign reading