Bill Hughes

the endless summer of ’79

Posted on July 11, 2024 by kentonkilgore

Time is a funny thing. As I sit here writing this, it is almost the middle of July 2024, which means that summer is almost half over. To me, it feels like Memorial Day was just a little while ago, but you can’t argue with the calendar. This summer—like many Continue reading the endless summer of ’79→

“onkle bill”

Posted on March 17, 2014 by kentonkilgore

Today is St. Patrick’s Day, the favorite holiday of a good friend of mine, probably the noblest and most generous man I have ever met, whom I lost over 15 years ago. William Patrick Hughes was born in February 1922 to Irish parents living in Newfoundland. He told me that Continue reading “onkle bill”→