Charles E. Burchfield, Journals , August 20, 1938

Aug 20 – after breakfast, I retraced my way to Wellsville for spring water and then came leisurely back along the river, which was beautiful and serene in the thick sun-shot morning mists.  An all side the cicadas & grasshoppers were starting their jarring rhythms.  I had the pleasure of seeing an amphibian plane take off from the river below.

     The trip east of Liverpool thru Beaver & Rochester was without much to note – I was loathe to leave the river country, but curiously, when I did, I felt a relief.  Before getting to [Zelienople] I made the mistake of picking up a couple of hitch-hikers, boys on return from a vacation in Indiana.  They were going to Dubois, and if I stuck to my original plan of following 68 to Kane; which meant I would be encumbered with them for many miles; so I changed my plans, - turning north on 19 at [Zelienope], dropping them at Potesville.  I then drove back to [Zelienope] where I stopped at the Kaufmann Hotel, which I had wanted to do all the time remembering the excellent dinner I had there in March, 1936.  It was just as fine today.