This is the first North Country Notebook as the outdoor writer for the Capital Times. This was a dream job for George, and I’m sure that he thought this was the last job he would ever have. But it was not meant to be. Less than five months later, on October 1, 1977, all five unions at Madison Newspapers, Inc., publisher of the Capital Times and Wisconsin State Journal, went on strike. That strike led to the Madison Press Connection and North Country Notebook had a new home. After the strike ended and the Press Connection stopped publishing, George moved to the Isthmus, a weekly paper published in Madison. He wrote North Country Notebook and an interview column, Listening In, for the Isthmus for about 15 years before his death in 1995.