PART 3 OF 3 MAY 18 - 20, 2019 "SOMETHING STRANGE ABOUT THIS ALASKA" - THE YEAR 1919
ROCKWELL KENT WILDERNESS CENTENNIAL JOURNAL 100 YEARS LATER by Doug Capra © 2018-19 May 18-20, 2019 ABOVE – And Now Where? , 1936, Lithograph on Stone, 13-1/8 x 9-3/8. "SOMETHING STRANGE ABOUT THIS ALASKA" As 1919 ended and ushered in what has been called the Roaring Twenties, the disorder continued, masked to some extent by progressive social changes like woman’s fashion and those threatening animal dances. Prohibition didn’t help. It was ignored by many and it contributed to criminal activities. Attorney Arthur Garfield Hayes in City Lawyer: The Autobiography of a Law Practice (1942), wrote: The inevitable letdown in idealism after the war, deepened by Wilson’s surrender to such reactionaries in his cabinet as Attorney-General Mitchell Palmer and Postmaster-General Burleson and, of course, the ending of the democratic dream at Versailles, left the country in an ugly mood. BELOW – The Grizzly Bear, one of the popular animal dances of t...