MARCH 27, 1919 - KENT'S FAREWELL LETTER TO THE SEWARD GATEWAY
ROCKWELL KENT WILDERNESS CENTENNIAL JOURNAL 100 YEARS LATER by Doug Capra © 2018-19 Thursday -- March 27, 1919 BELOW – Kent’s Praise for Alaska farewell letter as it appeared in the March 17, 1919 Seward Gateway. BELOW – A transcription of the letter with my comments follows. Father and son leave Fox Island on March 1 8 , 1919, and stay in Seward for eleven days . On March 27, the Seward Gateway publis hes Kent's farewell letter . Seward Gateway, Seward, Alaska. March 27, 1919 PRAISE FOR ALASKA To go from the Eastern states to the West is like opening your window to fresh air; to leave the Western and enter Alaska is to step at once straight out of doors. Here in this great, resourceful, unpeopled country there is the Freedom that the crowded world is fighting for. You have that, native and growing wild, which statesmen will forever with all their wisdom in the contrivance and piling up of laws fail to achieve. The freedom