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PART 1 OF 3 MAY 12 - 15, 2019 "THE CENTRE CANNOT HOLD" THE YEAR 1919

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ROCKWELL KENT WILDERNESS CENTENNIAL JOURNAL 100 YEARS LATER by Doug Capra © 2018-19 May 12-15 , 2019 "THE CENTRE CANNOT HOLD" ABOVE -- The lake behind Kent's cabin on Fox Island on June 5, 2006. The silence at this place can be deafening. "These are the times in life -- when nothing happens --," Kent writes in  Wilderness  about this spot, "but in quietness the soul expands." This was the core of the "quiet" adventure that Kent experienced in Alaska. Capra photo. …the centre cannot hold… Rockwell Kent’s (and Rockie’s) drawings at the Knoedler Gallery exhibit are a stunning success. All four of Rockie’s sell as well as most of Rockwell’s. The drawings showed our way of life, Kent wrote in his autobiography, a father and his little son’s; they showed, or hinted at, the natural splendors of the world that we had lived in and revealed to some degree how it had moved us. They showed us at our simple daily