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WEDNESDAY, AUG. 7, 2019 VISIT TO FOX ISLAND WITH PHOTOS

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ROCKWELL KENT WILDERNESS CENTENNIAL JOURNAL 100 YEARS LATER by Doug Capra © 2018-19 Part 4 – Wilderness & the Alaska Paintings: The Reviews Aug. 7, 2019 ABOVE – The tree stump at the entrance to the Kent cabin ruins as it looked in 2005. BELOW – That same tree as it looked in 2017. Today is worn down ever more. On Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2019 I spent the day on Fox Island courtesy of Kenai Fjords Tours. I needed to get back out there for some inspiration as I work my way toward the end of drafting this book. I did some hiking (visited the fox farm and cabin ruins), did some writing, and took some photographs. As you can see from the photos above, surface landmarks are always changing. Although I’ve taken hundreds of photos over the years, each time I visit the island is different. That fierce North Wind of winter that awed Kent picks up salt spray and stones that pulverize the landscape. In Wilderness, the artists writes about hearing those stones