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…

George included this column in North Country Notebook Volume I on page 61. Sorel boots, Calvin Rutstrum, Charlie Kaiser and the Seven-Foot Nun.

George included this column in North Country Notebook Volume I – page 78 of the hardcover version if you are following along at home.

This Isthmus article was selected by George for inclusion in North Country Notebook Volume I, a collection of his columns published in 1987 by North Country Press. He edited to make it a bit shorter, and changed the last line to read as follows: “I don’t really think that’s the…

Shaman’s Lake is a poem that appears in North Country Notebook, volume II on page 8. The poem was printed in several different publications. The version from Shaman’s Drum is included, partially because of the appropriateness of the name, but also because it is in the proper form as George wrote…

If there had been a North Country Notebook Volume III, this long overdue apology to Helen would definitely have been included!