PART 2 JANUARY 2 - FEBRUARY 11, 1919
ROCKWELL KENT WILDERNESS CENTENNIAL JOURNAL 100 YEARS LATER by Doug Capra © 2018 Part 2 – Jan. 2 – Feb. 11, 1918 ABOVE -- The sun with its reflection on Resurrection Bay as it nears setting behind the Aialik Peninsula -- on January 18, 2019. Those are sea ducks, probably Barrow's Golden-Eye, on the water. A hundred years ago on that day, Kent wrote in Wilderness : "Two beautiful days, these last. And to-night the wind blows and the snow falls and it is very cold...I'm hard a work painting by day and drawing at night. Twenty-five good drawings are done." Capra photo. Olson leaves Fox Island to get the mail and is gone for 38 days -- until February 11 th . In the preface to the second edition of Wilderness, Kent wrote: "I have been asked why Olson...stayed away so long. No reason. There was never much reason for anything. He wanted to." As far as Olson is concerned, he has a very good reason for remaining in Seward. He was wa