Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967)

 The setting beautiful post-oaks, which had blunt ended round notched leaves, thick and waxy.; Mrs. M. showed us how to get to the City Art Museum and a restaurant Garivelli’s [sic] – which they recommended for good food, not too expensive.; A brief visit at the Art Museum (an abstract show filled the place.). Then downtown to a movie as it was too early to eat. To see “The Rope” – too early & as we did not want to see the end, we went out & got a soda & then returned (the woman who knocked down a whole glass case full of small packaged candies). “The Rope” a tense morbid melodrama concerning thrill-killers. – followed by a B picture “Lightning in the Forest” very dull.; Then to Garavelli’s to eat. A & I had steaks, B fried chicken. Cocktails to start.; Then back to camp. We got on the wrong road but eventually reached 158 anyway.; To Art’s barracks where we bid him goodbye. (Art did all the driving in St. Louis.).Thursday Oct. 21 –; Speedometer reading – 625.6. – raining a little sky over-cast. Leave guest house at 8:10.158 to 15 – 15 to Mascontan [sic] – 43 to Lebanon – (643 mi).On 43 below Lebanon – we stopped to get some pods from a wire on a telephone pole. A flock of wild geese flew overhead, headed S.W.At Lebanon took route 50 east, against the advice