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MAY 22 - 25, 2019 PART I -- FINDING HIS RURAL VERMONT SANCTUARY

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ROCKWELL KENT WILDERNESS CENTENNIAL JOURNAL 100 YEARS LATER by Doug Capra © 2018-19 May 22-25, 2019 ABOVE – The front piece from Rockwell Kent’s 1955 autobiography, It’s Me O Lord (IMOL) Part 1 FINDING HIS RURAL VERMONT SANCTUARY The World At Year 36 As I indicated at the beginning of this website, Kent brings many years’ worth of personal and emotional baggage with him to Alaska. We learn much from his correspondence. Now, having been in Alaska for eight months with his young son, isolated for most of that time on an island in Resurrection Bay about 12 miles from Seward – Kent has accumulated more emotional baggage which follows him home. Years of his unfaithfulness to Kathleen, his most recent love triangle, and the potential new relationship with his wife based upon his Alaska epiphany – gets packed away with his art work and other belongings accompanies him on his search for a rural paradise. ABOVE – From IMOL By March 191