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OCT. 16-18, 2019 PART 9: LARS MATT OLSON LEAVES VERMONT

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ROCKWELL KENT WILDERNESS CENTENNIAL JOURNAL 100 YEARS LATER by Doug Capra © 2018-19 Part 9: Lars Matt Olson Leaves Vermont Oct. 16-18, 2019 ABOVE – The End , a woodcut Kent created in Vermont. It’s interesting that he depicts a scene fromTuesday, Sept. 24, 1918 when he and Rockie try to make it from Seward back to Fox Island in their 18-foot dory in the midst of a storm that almost kills both of them. He describes that event in Wilderness , Chapter II, Arrival). Although this story is in the book, I don't believe he told Kathleen about the incident in any of the letters, or in his illustrated journal. She was worried enough about her son, and Rockwell realized how close they both came to death on that day.  Image source BELOW – Rockie on Fox Island, Photo by Rockwell Kent, Rockwell Kent Gallery, Plattsburgh State University, (NY). Young Rockie had been invited to a boy’s camp for part of the 1919 summer, and attended again the next year. (Th