Charles E. Burchfield's Dreams, Journals, January 29, 1948

A dream –

Of being on a walk, N.E. of Salem. Turning down the Covered Bridge road (that leads east from the Egypt Rd.) I discovered that during a violent rain and thunderstorm of the night before, a huge tree had fallen across the bridge, demolishing it. Some men and boys were at work on it sawing off the smaller limbs. When I started to go across the stream using the tree as a bridge, they warned me it was not safe. From one of the foremost limbs which I had climbed upon I saw that this was so. The stream was swollen to many times its width, and here became a “raging torrent”. I climbed down and went under the tree. Here, miraculously the stream had dwindled to a mere trickle, and I was above to cross without any trouble.

Charles E. Burchfield, January 29, 1948