If you ever wondered if Steady Eddy was real, here is an article about hanging out with him.  Steady Eddy’s thoughtful reflections, whether actually said by him or not, became a regular part of George’s North Country Notebook columns in the Isthmus.  George wrote a regular column for Madison Magazine…

George always said that Canoeing with the Cree by Eric Severeid was a must-have classic for any paddler.  He was extremely excited about the book Distant Fires which was inspired by that book and the canoe trip it chronicled.  The young author of Distant Fires, Scott Anderson, died in 1999 while testing the…

George included this column in North Country Notebook Volume II on page 35.

George mentions this ride with Henry Martel in his North Country Notebook column “Freewheelin’ Friends”. Check it out at Isthmus 10-17-86: Freewheelin’ Friends.

George included this column in North Country Notebook Volume II. Turn to page 54 in the red hymnal sitting on top of the cash register at the American Legion Bar in Three Lakes. This story was also one of four stories included in the cassette Pages from a North Country…

This North Country Notebook column was written after George and his wife Helen toured some of the Rustic Roads in the north country to prepare for his written contribution to Bob Rashid’s wonderful book Rustic Roads: A Road Less Traveled. The poem contained here is included in the “poems” section…

George included this column in North Country Notebook Volume I – check out page 189.  It is just one of several columns in the book George included that were about hanging out in coulee country with the conservationist legend Bud Jordahl.

You can read about the ride George had with Henry Martel in his North Country Notebook column from the Summer of 1965 in the Wisconsin Tales and Trails section.

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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…