Rockwell Kent "Wilderness" Centennial Journal

ROCKWELL KENT WILDERNESS CENTENNIAL JOURNAL 100 YEARS LATER Part I – Olga Drexel Dahlgren and the Bachelor Girls by Doug Capra © 2020 March 9, 2020 ABOVE – Olga Drexel Dahlgren, 1926. Photo by Edward Steichen. Photo Source. BELOW – From the March 20, 1898 Chicago Tribune. JUST ABOUT A GENERATION The difference between an “old maid” and a “bachelor girl,” dear nephew, is  just about a generation.          March 25, 1921 Baltimore Evening Sun The bachelor girl of the present day…earns a good salary, is financially independent and is respected by all. No stigma attaches to her state of single blessedness. I’m rather inclined to think that many of the married women regard her with envious eyes and wish they had her money and her freedom!          Nov. 12, 1914 in the Philadelphia Evening Public Ledger While researching Rockwell Kent’s life during the mid-1920’s, I stumbled upon two interesting topics – a person, and a change in social mores