THORNS AND WILDERNESS - The Final Alaska Letters Part 3 of 3
ROCKWELL KENT WILDERNESS CENTENNIAL JOURNAL 100 YEARS LATER by Doug Capra © 2018-19 April 14, 2019 ABOVE -- The ruins of the Kent cabin in 1940. Photo by Dale Nichols, a Nebraska artist whose reading of Wilderness brought him to Alaska and in later years led him to a correspondence with the artist. The two women in the photo are his wife, and Mrs. Don Carlos Brownell. Kent was a friend of Brownell and often stayed at his house when he was in Seward. They later corresponded. Photo from the Resurrection Bay Historical Society collection. BELOW -- I'm standing at the at the site of the Kent cabin outhouse. You can see how over grown the area is today. You can barely see the southern headland of the cove. Photo by Bob and Alice Hunt, owners of the property on which the Kent cabin sat. Thorns and Wilderness The Final Alaska Letters Part 3 of 3 Feb. 16, 1919 Rockwell to Kathleen: I’m jealous of you having planned to go skating with the cr