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PART 5 OF 5 THE NOT-SO-QUIET ADVENTURE

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ABOVE - Olson’s cabin was located at the northern end of the fox farm. From the cabin site there is a trail east to the lake. This side of the lake is the small pool where Olson and the Kent’s got their fresh water. There are some freshets that come down from the mountain into the lake, but today the pool and the lake are much more brackish than they were in Kent's day, probably due to the drop in land after the 1964 earthquake.   Capra photo. NOTE– I’ll call this Part 5 of 5 of an expanded version of the lecture I delivered at the Anchorage (Alaska) Museum of History and Art on Nov. 9, 2018 as part of a one-day Rockwell Kent Symposium. But from this point on the entries are really just a continuation of the article as I continue to expand it. If you’ve reading this website you realize there is much more the story that’s contained on this website. I’ve tried to incorporate some of that information in this draft, but I advise those interested to check out