Rockwell Kent "Wilderness" Centennial Journal

ROCKWELL KENT WILDERNESS CENTENNIAL JOURNAL 100 YEARS LATER by Doug Capra © 2018-19 March 2-5, 1919 plus Another Olson Story ABOVE – With the coming of the Alaska Railroad interest expanded in tapping the resources all along its route as well as encouraging settlement. The Seward Civic Fair of 1916 was part of that promotion. Photos like this became popular as Seward represented the Kenai Peninsula in spreading the word about the various possibilities of homesteading. Photo circa 1916, source unknown. Photos below of the Seward Civic Fair from the collection of the Seward Community Library & the Resurrection Bay Historical Society. On March 3, 1919 – before even mentioning Fox Island -- we see Kent the anarchist. One can’t easily define the anarchist movement of this period – there were many variations (See AnarchistModernism: Art, Politics, and the First American Avant- Garde by Allan Antliff (2001).  Kent’s friend, Carl Zigrosser, editor of t...