OCT. 5, 2018 -- SEWARD MUSIC AND ARTS FESTIVAL
Today is Friday, Oct. 5, 2018. A hundred years ago it was a dry but overcast Saturday on Fox Island with, as Kent noted, “a clean, refreshing atmosphere.” Today, after two days of pouring rain, morning began with the sun and some blue sky but soon clouded up. On Fox Island Rockie was being punished for not doing his reading homework. His penance? – Not being allowed to help his father saw up a tree, a task he greatly enjoyed. Later Kent calked the east side of his cabin and did some baking. “Rockie took his punishment so to heart that in the afternoon he read ten pages in his book,” Kent wrote. This day the artist also rigged up a device to help him paint outside while sitting and holding his palette. And he painted. Kent mentions reading a book of George Anson’s voyage around Cape Horn and how Anson notes that fair weather rarely lasts long in those southern latitudes. Kent thinks it probably true for northern latitudes. He may have been pondering a future trip aroun