Feb. 19-21, 1919 - PART I KATHLEEN'S JANUARY LETTERS TO ROCKWELL
ROCKWELL KENT WILDERNESS CENTENNIAL JOURNAL 100 YEARS LATER by Doug Capra © 2018 February 19-21, 1919 – 2019 Part 1 -- Kathleen’s January letters to Rockwell ABOVE – A pod of Orca wander by Bear Glacier near the entrance to Resurrection Bay. Rockwell Kent writes about and sketches both Orcas (the largest member of the Dolphin family) and Humpback Whales. Photo courtesy of Major Marine Tours. BELOW – One of Kent’s illustrated letters from September 1918 showing a pod of orca along the shoreline of his Fox Island beach. “This happened yesterday,” he writes at the bottom, “in our little harbor not 25 feet, some of them, from where we stood.” His son, Rockie, describes wandering even closer to them along the beach and touching their dorsal fins with his walking stick. Even today Orca rub their bellies on the shoreline of that beach, perhaps the descendants of the family group Kent sketched here. This letter from the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian I