Man who drowned was poet inspired by lake [US]:
The cross-country skier who fell through thin ice on Rangeley Lake was a Trinity College professor and poet, authorities said.
Hugh Ogden, 69, of Glastonbury, Conn., was crossing Rangeley Lake on cross-country skis to get to the mainland from his camp on Naramantic Island when he fell through the thin ice and drowned on Sunday, Maine Warden Service Sgt. John Blagdon said.
Ogden wrote several poetry books, won honors from the National Endowment for the Arts and Connecticut Commission on the Arts, and was twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize in Poetry. Last year, he was nominated to become Connecticut's poet laureate. [...]
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