The Hungry Poet #1 The Hungry Poet #2 The Hungry Poet #3 The Hungry Poet #4 The Hungry Poet #5 The Hungry Poet #6 The Hungry Poet #7

The Hungry Poet #1 The Hungry Poet #2 The Hungry Poet #3 The Hungry Poet #4 The Hungry Poet #5 The Hungry Poet #6 The Hungry Poet #7

The Hungry Poet #1 The Hungry Poet #2 The Hungry Poet #3 The Hungry Poet #4 The Hungry Poet #5 The Hungry Poet #6 The Hungry Poet #7

The Hungry Poet #1 The Hungry Poet #2 The Hungry Poet #3 The Hungry Poet #4 The Hungry Poet #5 The Hungry Poet #6 The Hungry Poet #7

This is the first time the Hungry Poet appears in North Country Notebook. Ed Teela had closed the legendary baitshop and opened Steady Eddy’s Cafe on Williamson Street in Madison. The premise is a poet coming into the Cafe and offering to exchange poems for jambalaya and gazpacho. The food…

George’s first column with the Wisconsin Outdoor Journal. He wrote regular North Country Notebook columns for WOJ and Isthmus until his death in 1995. This column is a pretty good introduction to his writing, and his influences on his writing. The attached photo shows the stringer of trout George and…

Includes the poem The Leopold Pines.

George’s classic Christmas story which became a yearly event in the Isthmus. It can also be found on page 123 of North Country Notebook, volume II. George also recorded a version of this which was released as a cassette with three other stories.

This is another one of George’s columns which appears in North Country Notebook, Volume I (the green one). George edited the version in the book quite a bit the result is a short column about ice fishing. As you read the article, at the halfway point you’ll see the line…

This column appears in North Country Notebook, Volume 1 at page 54.

This is the last column that George wrote for the Isthmus, and appeared two days after his death. This was the last of several articles that George wrote that were critical of the Thompson administration’s environmental policies.

This is one of several columns George wrote in 1995 that was highly critical of some of the efforts by the Gov. Thompson administration to dismantle the public intervenor’s office and re-align some of the priorities of the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources.