Rockwell Kent "Wilderness" Centennial Journal

ROCKWELL KENT WILDERNESS CENTENNIAL JOURNAL 100 YEARS LATER by Doug Capra © 2018 Part 6 – Kathleen and Frances: Divorce and Remarriage Dec. 6-10,  2019 ABOVE – Rockwell Kent, as he appeared on his 1922 passport, the one he obtained for his trip to South America. BELOW— Rockwell Kent’s drawing for It’s Me O Lord (IMOL)of the family home in France.   a stick of raw, unseasoned wood If I may liken marriage to a piece of cabinet work, I was a stick of raw, unseasoned wood that had been built into it; and I had warped and cracked and sprung to such an extent that the piece was at last coming apart at the joints.          Rockwell Kent in IMOL (1955) In the last entry I wrote that Fridjolf Johnson in his 1981 Anthology said that Kathleen was the one who called for the divorce. I haven’t found that letter or Rockwell’s reply, but my guess is that Kathleen didn’t ask for a divorce but rather said that they just couldn’t live together an