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OCT. 25 - 28 PART 2: MORE THOUGHTS

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ROCKWELL KENT WILDERNESS CENTENNIAL JOURNAL 100 YEARS LATER by Doug Capra © 2018-19 Part 2 – More Thoughts Oct. 25-28, 2019 ABOVE – The Resurrect Art Coffee House and Art Gallery, where I do much of my writing. Built in 1917 as a Methodist Church, it stood at this spot when Rockwell Kent was in Seward. Mount Marathon is in the background. The Methodists sold it to the Lutherans about 1946. For 22 year’s now it has been a coffee house and art gallery. Capra photo taken on Oct. 25, 2019. BELOW – Resurrection Bay at about 1:30 on Oct. 25, 2019. Fox Island is just to the right of the tree. Days like this were few during late August, September and October 1918 when Kent was on Fox Island. As Lars Olson wrote in his diary, It rained like Hell .   Capra Photo = These are some of my thoughts as I try to process my research into a portrait of the man who experienced both the quiet and unquiet adventure on Fox Island in Resurrection Bay, Alaska during 191