Late August -- Early September, 2018
ROCKWELL KENT WILDERNESS CENTENNIAL JOURNAL 100 YEARS LATER by Doug Capra © 2018 Late Aug. – Early Sept., 2018 Part 1 "Fire Wood" pen and ink from Wilderness On this day 100 years ago Rockwell Kent took a break from his work on Fox Island and wrote a letter to his friend Carl Zigrosser: “Robinson Crusoe Olson has just left us to return to his cabin and his goats so I can begin on the letter that I have planned to write tonight and send to Seward by Olson tomorrow – And I’m so utterly tired that I cannot, I know, write one.” The day before – August 31st – was the one-week anniversary of the artist finding Fox Island. He had discovered an “enchanted cabin” on a “pirate’s island” with an old pioneer. Kent tells Zigrosser of their meeting in Humpy Cove and how the old Swede “came along and carried us almost by force to his island. He loves us for it’s been mighty lonely for him here.” It’s probably evening as Kent writes this letter. He is sitting in his cabin