MID TO LATE SEPTEMBER 2018 -- Part 2
ROCKWELL KENT WILDERNESS CENTENNIAL JOURNAL 100 YEARS LATER by Doug Capra © 2018 Mid to Late September 2018 – Part 2 "If I were unable to draw strength from myself, if I had to wait for applause, encouragement, consolation, where would I be? what would I be? There were certainly moments and whole periods of my life...when a robust word of encouragement, a hand-clasp of agreement would have been the refreshment of refreshments -- and it was just then that everybody left me in the lurch." Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche quoted in Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen's American Nietzsche: A History of an Icon and His Ideas (2012) It was a Sunday 100 years ago on Sept. 15, 1918. A southeast storm battered Fox Island while Olson’s goats spent the whole day inside their shelter. Those storms bring a spitting, driving rain that make it uncomfortable to work outside. Within a few minutes you’re drenched. Kent and Rocky are probably inside their cabin, chinking the wide spaces betw...