Rockwell Kent "Wilderness" Centennial Journal

  People have asked me where they can get a copy of the new Chinese edition of Rockwell Kent's Wilderness: A Journal of Quiet Adventure in Alaska -- with my Forewords. It now available on amazon at this link .

  NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Historic Preservation Commission and the Resurrection Bay Historical Society will be hosting a Founder’s Day Celebration with a presentation on Rockwell Kent by Doug Capra: Friday, August 28, 2020 from 2:00 to 5:00 p.m. Founder’s Day Celebration Seward Community Library & Museum 239 Sixth Avenue, Seward, Alaska Friday, August 28, 2020 at 3:30 p.m. Rockwell Kent Presentation by Doug Capra Branson Pavilion at Waterfront Park Ballaine Blvd., Seward, Alaska All public is invited to attend. PHOTOS -- NORTH WIND, 1918-19 by Rockwell Kent -- Various editions of Wilderness: A Journal of Quiet Adventure in Alaska by Rockwell Kent. -- Recently published Chinese language edition of Wilderness with two forewords by Doug Capra.

    NEW CHINESE EDITION OF ROCKWELL KENT'S  WILDERNESS:  A JOURNAL OF QUIET ADVENTURE IN ALAKSA Today (Aug. 17, 2020) at about 3:30 p.m. a UPS truck drove up to my house and dropped off a box of books that had traveled all the way from Beijing, China. The box held several copies of a new Chinese edition of Rockwell Kent's "Wilderness: A Journal of Quiet Adventure in Alaska." This Chinese edition has two forewords I've written: the first back in 1995 for the Wesleyan University Press edition of which this is a reprint, and a second foreword I wrote for this new edition.   Back in the summer of 2019 I received some emails from a professor at a university in Beijing who was translating “Wilderness” into Chinese. He had many questions about slang, idioms and other cultural issues that are difficult to transfer from one language to another. I provided some answers and I was asked to write a new foreword to accompany my earlier one.   It took me a while to find my forew

 A DREAMER'S SEARCH  A Short Film About Rockwell Kent in Alaska I'm working with filmmaker Eric Downs as an advisor on this short film about Rockwell Kent on Fox Island in Resurrection Bay. Follow this link  for more information about this project.

ROCKWELL KENT WILDERNESS CENTENNIAL JOURNAL 100 YEARS LATER by Doug Capra © 2020 100 Years Ago This Month March 18, 2020 It was 100 years ago this month -- March of 1920 -- that Rockwell Kent began his rise to fame. This is when the New York exhibit of is Alaska paintings combined with the publication of his first book, Wilderness: A Journal of Quiet Adventure in Alaska . If you haven't already read this portion of the website, this might be a good time to do so. Begin with the link below and work you way along this multipart series. https://rockwellkentjournal.blogspot.com/2019/07/part-1-july-21-24-wilderness-alaska.html In a few days I'll continue the series about Olga and her family, the Drexel-Dahlgrens.

 ROCKWELL KENT WILDERNESS CENTENNIAL JOURNAL 100 YEARS LATER by Doug Capra © 2020 Part 2: Olga Drexel Dahlgren and her Family March 13, 2020 INTRODUCTION This journey into Olga Drexel Dahlgren and her family has several purposes. There is a connection between Olga and Rockwell Kent that involves his second wife, Frances, and perhaps even his first wife, Kathleen. I will cover this in the last entry of this series. On our way there, I want to introduce the family as portrayed by press coverage. To a significant extent, this will be a skewed perspective, as is all media coverage. I don’t have access to letters and diaries that would certainly present a more nuanced narrative. The Drexels, the Dahlgrens, and the Drexel-Dahlgrens represent a prominent, visible, wealthy, Roman Catholic family – a combination of old and new wealth – that emerged after the American Civil War during what has been called the Gilded Age. The Drexel-Dahlgren children reached maturity during a pe