Rockwell Kent "Wilderness" Centennial Journal

ROCKWELL KENT WILDERNESS CENTENNIAL JOURNAL 100 YEARS LATER by Doug Capra © 2018-19 Part 8 – Wilderness: A Journal of Quiet Adventure in Alaska: Influence & Reviews Aug. 22-25, 2019 ABOVE – Henry Beston.  BELOW – The Fo’castle.  Both photos courtesy of The Henry Beston Society. Among the many things for which I remain profoundly grateful is the fact that so much of life defies human explanation. The unimaginative and the dull may insist that they have an explanation for everything, and level at every wonder and mystery of life their popgun theories, but God be praised, their wooden guns have not yet dislodged the smallest star. It is well that this be so, for the human spirit can die of explanations, even if, like many modern formulae, they are but explanations which do not explain.          Henry Beston in Northern Farm: A Glorious Year on a Small Maine Farm (1948). The despair and misery of the Great War was not something Henry Sheah