Remembering Bill Hogan Weelunk Staff November 10, 2020 Bill Hogan’s posts on Weelunk mirrored his personality in every word, phrase and sentence. Whether he was recalling life in his youth or life in his later years, you experienced his sense of humor and honest di...
BILL HOGAN’S MUSINGS: The Alpha and the Omega Bill Hogan January 18, 2020 Share your memories of Ye Olde Alpha with Weelunk.
BILL HOGAN’S MUSINGS: Peace Corps in East Wheeling? Bill Hogan November 9, 2019 This is a tough one to get started. There are so many people involved from not only different backgrounds but different continents. ONE: PEACE CORPS When we arrived in Cove, Benin, West Africa, starting our ...
BILL HOGAN’S MUSINGS: Poppa’s One, Two, Three Bill Hogan August 24, 2019 Driving through Wheeling Park, I noticed a sign — “Bandstand” — and followed it to the top of the hill. I haven’t been up there in decades. The last time was for a party we had there when the rails around the b...
BILL HOGAN’S MUSINGS: A Binge and a Spree Bill Hogan July 7, 2019 I have lived in two universes; they overlap or maybe coincide. It's a paradoxical thing I don’t understand and don’t try. The first was a straight line sort of thing — a loving family, schools, university, Mili...
BILL HOGAN’S MUSINGS: The Flicks Bill Hogan May 18, 2019 I was fortunate to attend a noon talk at our library recently, about the old movie theaters in West Virginia. It brought back so many memories of when I was a kid in the 1930s and ’40s when going to a movie on ...
BILL HOGAN’S MUSINGS: On Being Irish Bill Hogan March 17, 2019 I am Irish, I guess, because I don’t know what else to be. I am half German, but being German never came easy to me. We are a melancholy lot; I am. That is why we sing and laugh so much, because we are so ve...
BILL HOGAN’S MUSINGS: Building Good Neighbors Bill Hogan February 16, 2019 Editor's note: The IDEAS page is our place for public opinion, a place where a person can express what concerns them about present-day Wheeling or the world. However, there is one major caveat. The author must ...
BILL HOGAN’S MUSINGS: Let’s Give Thanks for Thanksgiving Bill Hogan December 2, 2018 I believe it is beautifully ironic that my favorite holiday is identified with the unglamorous turkey. I remember that when we were training for the Peace Corps on Saint Helena’s Island off Beaufort, S.C., we h...
BILL HOGAN’S MUSINGS: The Present Predicament of the Catholic Church as Seen From the Sidelines Bill Hogan November 18, 2018 Editor's Note: The Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston has been and continues to be a significant sponsor of Weelunk. The staff and board of directors of Weelunk are grateful the Diocese sees the organization as a f...
Bill Hogan’s Musings: ‘Regal’ Jimmy Bill Hogan October 13, 2018 1 “James Samuel Simon, 82, of Wheeling, died Sunday Oct. 7, 2018.” … so the short obituary starts, with mention of his high school and military service. Really not much to report on his 82 years. I knew Jim...
BILL HOGAN’S MUSINGS: Pappy’s Gold Pan Bill Hogan June 9, 2018 In April, my grandson Tommy turned 10, so I wanted to give him a present that was meaningful to me and hopefully to him. I gave him the circular, metal pan with the sloping sides that I had used to try my luck ...
BILL HOGAN’S MUSINGS: Another Chapter Completed Bill Hogan June 2, 2018 2 It was in the 1940s after we emerged the victor in World War II; and not only a winner but a world power. We initiated the Marshall Plan, named after one of most respected and decorated General Officers of tha...
