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Putin’s Friends and Putin’s War

What happens when the “bread basket of Europe” is attacked by a gas station the size of Texas? Vladomir Putin has attacked the Ukraine in a…

3 min readMar 26, 2022

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Reo Wilhour

Tom and Me

I swear I remember the first time we met. Now maybe it’s a little like saying, “Officer, I swear that light was green.” You have to say it…

17 min readMar 10, 2022

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Reo Wilhour

The Bridge

It was often referred to by some old timers as the bridge “that didn’t set right with the road”. It was also called the “crooked” bridge…

5 min readJan 28, 2022

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Reo Wilhour

The Traditional High School Homecoming

When I was a kid, 50 years ago, the traditional high school homecoming celebration would consist of a parade, with a bonfire at night, the…

5 min readDec 14, 2021

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Reo Wilhour

Bank of Pontiac

I really wanted to play basketball. It was April or May, and the high school and college seasons were over. The NBA, of course, went on…

14 min readOct 21, 2021

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Reo Wilhour

Ancestry-William Duffield Wilson Sr (1811–1884)

William D. Wilson Sr. was Grandma’s great-grandfather. He was the son of Matthew Wilson, the Revolutionary war veteran, Indian scout, and…

2 min readOct 21, 2021

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Reo Wilhour

“Newspaper Story”

1 min readSep 29, 2021

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“Newspaper Story”

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Reo Wilhour

Chicken Day

Usually, it’s beginning to feel like a hot, muggy, hazy July day. This was the day for butchering and freezing chickens that we had raised…

6 min readSep 29, 2021

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Reo Wilhour

Oma Green Spillman

Oma Green SpIllman was our grandfather. He had over 20 grandchildren. Oma Green Spillman, sometimes known as OG, was born on October 12…

13 min readAug 6, 2021

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Reo Wilhour

Apologies

The last time I wrote about Grandpa Spillman, Oma Green Spillman, I made several mistakes. I made both kinds, errors of omission and errors…

1 min readAug 6, 2021

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Reo Wilhour

Reo Wilhour

Retired from Parkland College, from Pana, Illinois, Living in Champaign, Illinois, Not a farmer, but always interested in agriculture, and married to Diana.

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