Field Notebook: Florida, Quebec, Vermont. 1927, 1928, 1931
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Tuesday Feb 28-1928. Jacksonville. Today life easy. A fine sunny day, the four me on this trip back in Florida. Bought my ticket to New Sharon via Seaboard Air Line for $50.04, and $7.50 for baggage from New York. Wednesday Feb 29, 1928, Jacksonville. Another fine day. Doctored about and owned myself. In the afternoon spent 2 1/2 hours looking up Encyclopedia about the West Indies in the Public Library. Packed up and paid my hotel bill to start quietly in the morning. Thursday March 1-1928, En Route Home. Got up at 6:45 and 7:30 was off to the Union Station at Jacksonville and the Seaboard Air Line 8 A.M. train for New York. A fine day and all goes well. Coming through Georgia our are high and thick with red mud. They must carry much mud and sand into the Atlantic. Near Columbia S.C saw the first hard rock, a very large quarry situated for fall air, evidently granite. Retired at 8:15 P.M.