NOVEMBER 25 - 28, 2018
ROCKWELL KENT WILDERNESS CENTENNIAL JOURNAL 100 YEARS LATER by Doug Capra © 2018 Nov. 25-28, 2018 "It seems a law of fallen nature that life must always come to its being through darkness, and this makes us even more aware of its beauty. Dawn is lovelier because it comes after night, spring because it follows winter." - Caryll Houselander The sublime -- the beauty and terror of nature. “It rages from the northeast!,” Kent writes on Monday, Nov. 25, 1918 . “The bay is a wild expanse of breakers. They bear into our cove and thunder on the beach. A mad day and a mad night. “ Kent and Rockie feel safe observing the uproar from the the beach or the inside of their Fox Island cabin. The tumultuous seas may bring back memories of that mid-September return trip to the island when the two voyagers were nearly killed. Ambivalent memories for Kent, for he would write on March 7, 1919 that fine adventuring is “flirting with danger...