PART 2 -- NEW YEAR'S EVE -- 1918
ROCKWELL KENT WILDERNESS CENTENNIAL JOURNAL 100 YEARS LATER by Doug Capra © 2018 Part 2 -- New Year’s Eve 1918 It is Tuesday, December. 31, 1918 New Year’s Eve on Fox Island The hour has come and gone in New York City It is also the Tenth Anniversary of Rockwell and Kathleen’s Marriage “It has rained most of the day,” Kent writes in Wilderness . The rain has melted most of the snow and it is so mild that he has to keep his cabin door open and the stoves on low. “To-night is as warm as any night in spring or autumn,” he observes. As Kent works, he constantly looks out for a steamer to pass the island on its way to Seward with the mail. This isolation, this lack of communication, is torture to him. It’s been weeks since he wrote those two soul-searching and introspective letters to Kathleen and mailed them to his friend Carl Zigrosser to give to his wife on New Year’s Eve. He sent them off while he was in Seward between Nov. 30 th and Dec. 4 th . He