SATURDAY, JANUARY 26, 2018 PRESENTATION
Saturday. January 26 th at 5 p.m. at the Seward Community Library The ‘Not-So-Quiet’ Adventure Unpacking Rockwell Kent on Fox Island 100 Years Later.” “Brimming over with energy,” his friend Carl Zigrosser wrote, “he could and did wear out two wives. I salute all for their loyal and unselfish devotion.” Another of his friends, George Chappell, warned him that “ Perfection is always the peak beyond, and the way to it is full of bruises, but we can attain a kind of perfection by idealizing what we have, and still not lose sight of the great unattainable.” This wasn’t advice he wanted to hear. The artist is Rockwell Kent II. This year is the 100 th anniversary of his stay on Fox Island in Resurrection during 1918-1919 with his 9-year-old son, Rockie. If you’ve read his book, Wilderness: A Journal of Quiet Adventure in Alaska , published in 1920, you’ve only been exposed to half the story. Perhaps the most interesting portion of his Alaska visit i