Part I - CHRISTMAS & LATE DECEMBER 2018
ROCKWELL KENT WILDERNESS CENTENNIAL JOURNAL 100 YEARS LATER by Doug Capra © 2018 Part I - Christmas & Late December 2018 December 20, 1918 moon rise over Mount Alice on the Resurrection Peninsula across from the town of Seward. Capra photo AS 1918 ENDS Kent knows since his last trip to Seward that he won’t be getting back there before Christmas. Weather and sea conditions are too iffy. He makes sure of two things during that last trip in early December -- first, he gets all his important Christmas gifts and mail out on the steamships; second, he purchases everything he needs for Christmas on Fox Island. He shares Seward’s indignation toward the steamship companies in a Dec. 21 st letter to Kathleen complaining that the companies have devised a “plot to make the mail scarce on this coast…in retaliation for the revocation of their mail contract” with the U.S. Government. They’re making sure the Christmas mail will be late, he contends. These days Ke