Do you remember the name of this old PBS radio show? What was the name? The show started with a really good song that might have had loon cries and a wolf howl in it, and then went into readings from the notebook. Was it based on a book? Name the book and author if you know it. Name the song and musician if you know the song. I liked to lay in bed in the dark and listen to this show when it came on late at night.
The program, North County Notebook which featured stories by a gentleman now deceased (can’t thing of his name – sort of a Central European name) with references to the Seven Foot Tall Nun, the Three Lakes, Wisconsin VFW and all sorts of Northern Wisconsin eccentrics was produced by Wisconsin Public Radio. It has been off the air for years but you might be able to get some information, maybe recordings, by contacting WPR.
I’m glad somebody else remembers this.
It was George Vukelich. His work started showing up in Newspapers 1977 and I would have read him a bit. He switched to the Isthmus where I would have read his stuff more. It’s also the same time period that The Straight Dope was just starting out and in that free paper too. The Onion was a local publication back then.
I’m looking more for the audio here. The first show was Pages From A North Country Notebook. The second was audio tape North Country Notebook and the third was North Country Notebook Volume II. It looks like the show was never available as cassette even. What a shame. All I’ll have of that is a partial episode recorded off the air.
I grew up in the area where August Derleth, John Muir, Aldo Leopold and George Vukelich grew their love of the outdoors. I used to swim in Fountain lake as a kid and wander the same areas. Portage is center to traveling in any direction and finding a different unique area left after the last glacier.
Spavined Gelding your post finally got me the right phrase to find something. Thanks.