Isthmus 10-18-91: Hungry Poet Strikes Again (The Hungry Poet #4)
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
Isthmus 8-30-91: Soup to Nuts (The Hungry Poet #2)
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
Isthmus 8-16-91: Poetry for an Empty Stomach (The Hungry Poet #1)
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…
Wisconsin Outdoor Journal August, 1988: Greetings
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…
Wisconsin Outdoor Journal April, 1988: Only the Crane Remains
Includes the poem The Leopold Pines.
12-19-59: George Vukelich – “Hambone Billy Patrick” in TV and Radio Times
This article about George, the radio announcer, mentions his family and the German Shepard pup named Kristie. The article doesn’t mention the background of Kristie, but George wrote about Kristie in a 1995 North Country Notebook column.
1962 – Monitor Radio Interview: Bob King interviewing George Vukelich
This interview was done for the radio show Monitor hosted on NBC by Jim Lowe. Bob King, who was the long-time newscaster at WIBA-AM radio in Madison actually interviewed George. The date of this interview is probably in 1962, soon after the publication of Fisherman’s Beach, George’s only novel. To…
Listening In 11-4-83: Sara Rath – Always The Rebel
To read some of Sara Rath’s poems, see George’s 11-4-83 North Country Notebook column.
Isthmus 12-20-85: Body Heat
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.
Isthmus 1-16-81: Something Simple
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…