SEPT 13-16 PART 1: THE LIFE OF LARS MATT OLSON AND HIS STAY IN VERMONT WITH THE KENTS
ROCKWELL KENT WILDERNESS CENTENNIAL JOURNAL 100 YEARS LATER by Doug Capra © 2018-19 Part 1 Sept. 13-16, 2019 ABOVE – Lars Matt Olson, about 1916. Author’s collection. BELOW – Olson feeding his goats on Fox Island, circa 1916. Photo given to me by Virginia Darling, daughter of Thomas Hawkins who financed the fox farm and hired Olson to manage it. OLSON OF THE DEEP EXPERIENCE What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price Of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children. William Blake – Excerpts from “The Four Zoas” And now at last it is over. Fox Island will soon become in our memories like a dream or vision, a remote experience too wonderful, for the full liberty we knew there and the deep peace, to be remembered or believed as a real experience in life. It was for us life as it should be, serene and wholesome; love – but no hate,