Rockwell Kent "Wilderness" Centennial Journal

ROCKWELL KENT WILDERNESS CENTENNIAL JOURNAL 100 YEARS LATER by Doug Capra © 2018-19 April 30, 2019     ABOVE -- A German edition of  Wilderness: A Journal of quiet Adventure in Alaska. A few months back a professor in China contacted me. He has been translating Rockwell Kent's  Wilderness  into Chinese. He gave me a list of questions he had regarding certain idioms and phrases. He was especially baffled by some of Lars Olson's diary entries. I provided answers, gave him the address of this website, and sent him several photos I've taken of various Fox Island scenes.  BELOW -- Looking south from the ruins of the Kent cabin on Fox Island. Capra photo Wilderness  has been translated into several languages. Perhaps soon we'll have a Chinese edition. I notice many readers on this website from various countries around the world. If there's a translation of  Wilderness  available in your language, please ...

ROCKWELL KENT WILDERNESS CENTENNIAL JOURNAL 100 YEARS LATER by Doug Capra © 2018-19 April 25, 2019 Part 2 - WHERE IS ROCKWELL KENT & WHAT IS HE DOING?\ ABOVE – April 19, 2019 – My south-facing deck. The snow scene at left was taken at 8 a.m. Six hours later, the same scene at right.   I write this on Wednesday, April 24, 2019. This morning we had three or four inches of snow. By about 1 p.m. it was all gone -- not due to rain. For the last few months we've been getting about four to five minutes of light gain each day. The earth is warming. April snow doesn't last long. If Rockwell Kent had stayed through April, he may have made it to Bear Glacier with Rockie for several days of camping and painting. He could have even made it out to Aialik Bay to see Aialik and Holgate Glaciers. Perhaps even to the Northestern Fiord area. I say "area" because that fiord would have still been most glaciated in 1919. But the weather in April along ...