NOVEMBER 20 - 22, 2018
ROCKWELL KENT WILDERNESS CENTENNIAL JOURNAL 100 YEARS LATER by Doug Capra © 2018 Nov. 20-22, 2018 It’s Wednesday, Nov. 20, 1918 on Fox Island in Resurrection Bay. Rockwell Kent is frustrated. He’s been packed and ready to venture the 12 miles north to Seward in his small dory since Nov. 14 th waiting for the seas and weather to cooperate. He wants his mail, and he has a stack of letters and Christmas gifts to send to his wife and children, to friends – and to his amour, Hildegarde Hirsch in New York. He’s exasperated with the mail situation, as are Alaskans all along the gulf coast – especially with the holiday season approaching. “Tomorrow we hope to get off,” Kent writes, “although it still storms.” The running seas don’t concern as much as the chop created by the north wind. “The wind above all is to be feared here. “The darkness also vexes him. Kent needs natural light in his small cabin to paint and draw. He put in a large south facing window and cleared