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NOVEMBER 5 - 7, 2018

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ROCKWELL KENT WILDERNESS CENTENNIAL JOURNAL 100 YEARS LATER by Doug Capra © 2018 Nov. 5 - 7, 2018 The November 9 th Kent Symposium at the Anchorage Museum went well. I’ll give more information about that later and tell you more about the other presenters. I’ll also publish on this site the text of my presentation sometime this month. Getting my presentation in shape got me behind somewhat on this blog, but I should get up to date by the end of this week. As I write this, on Monday, Nov. 12 – we have a typically rainy, foggy, dismal day in Seward – not unlike those that Kent talks about this time of year 100 years ago. For a painter who needed light, days like this could be frustrating. Tuesday, Nov. 5, 1918 -- It has been eight days since Olson left for Seward. Kent is waiting anxiously for his return -- for the old man will have the mail – and Kent is desperate for letters. It doesn’t’ look good. Overcast skies with rain and some snow make it so dark that t