Local Features

The Poet of the Pines


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As part of our We Live Up Here series, we're telling stories about the people and culture of northern Wisconsin. Today, Northwoods resident Kathryn Luttkus Craffey has a story about the relationship between her grandfather and the Northwoods Poet Enos Hayward, also known as the "Poet of the Pines." I wondered how it was that my grandfather — a burly, Lithuanian farmer-logger named Herman Luttkus — who moved to the Wisconsin north woods in the early part of the last century — began to write
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