Rockwell Kent "Wilderness" Centennial Journal

ROCKWELL KENT WILDERNESS CENTENNIAL JOURNAL 100 YEARS LATER by Doug Capra © 2018 While Rockwell and Rockie are still in Yakutat, I’ll backtrack a bit. Notice how I spelled his son’s name. While reading through the letters I’ve noticed that Kent spells it both with a “y” and an “ie.” His wife, Kathleen, spells it Rockie. So far I’ve been quoting mostly from his letters to Hildegarde Hirsch. Those letters will run through 1919 as Kent is on Fox Island, and a bit further. As I’ve said, Hildegarde’s letters to Kent have not survived, so we can only surmise from his letters how she may be responding.  It may appear from what I’ve written so far that Kent is only writing to Hildegarde. That’s not the case. He is sending Kathleen and his children many letters and postcards from the train and the ship. By Aug. 19, 1918 Kathleen has received a letter from Yakutat and writes him there from Monhegan Island off the coast of Maine where she and the three girls are living. He doesn’t get