SEPTEMBER 23, 2018
ROCKWELL KENT WILDERNESS CENTENNIAL JOURNAL 100 YEARS LATER by Doug Capra © 2018 September 23, 2018 MAY THE WATERS OF RESURRECTION BAY CARESS THEIR BONES Rockwell Kent II: 1882-1918 and his son, Rockwell Kent III: 1909-1918 by Doug Capra Part I NOTE – This is an expanded version of the article that first appeared in the Spring 2005 issue of The Kent Collector (Vol .XXXI, No. 1) After waiting for several stormy days on Fox Island while watching mail steamships heading to Seward, Kent and Rockie rowed to town on Wednesday, Sept. 18, 1918. On the way, the two were almost swamped off Caines Head while trying to pick up their finicky Evinrude engine which was being repaired. Noting the high surf on shore, Kent wisely decided not to attempted a landing. “After leaving there we almost got into difficulties,” he wrote, “in a shoal where the seas were breaking. Before we knew it, we were in the trough of them....