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# August 20, 2014
- URL: https://www.drewshannon.net/post-95291759539/
- Published: 2014-08-20T09:52:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-13T18:17:54.000Z
- Author: Drew Shannon
- Tags: michigan, up north, photo, canon 5d mark ii, black and white, bill hoglund, #import-tumblr-2026-08-27, sunset, ocean

![Side profile of a man holding a glowing paper sky lantern illuminated from within against a dusk sky.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/5d/97/5d978d6c-7b8d-4f8a-9b0a-641815cdd124/content/images/2014/08/95291759539_0.jpg)

![Silhouetted group holding a glowing purple paper sky lantern ready for launch over a dark lake at twilight.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/5d/97/5d978d6c-7b8d-4f8a-9b0a-641815cdd124/content/images/2014/08/95291759539_1.jpg)

![Smiling woman releasing a glowing paper lantern into the dusk sky, its flame illuminating her face.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/5d/97/5d978d6c-7b8d-4f8a-9b0a-641815cdd124/content/images/2014/08/95291759539_2.jpg)

![Man in a blue check shirt lifting a glowing orange sky lantern with candlelight reflected on his back.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/5d/97/5d978d6c-7b8d-4f8a-9b0a-641815cdd124/content/images/2014/08/95291759539_3.jpg)

![Crowd of people on a beach lifting glowing paper sky lanterns into the dark night sky.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/5d/97/5d978d6c-7b8d-4f8a-9b0a-641815cdd124/content/images/2014/08/95291759539_4.jpg)

![Multiple glowing sky lanterns drifting up into a deep twilight sky above the dark silhouette of trees.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/5d/97/5d978d6c-7b8d-4f8a-9b0a-641815cdd124/content/images/2014/08/95291759539_5.jpg)

![A solitary glowing paper lantern floating away into the vast dark blue evening sky.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/5d/97/5d978d6c-7b8d-4f8a-9b0a-641815cdd124/content/images/2014/08/95291759539_6.jpg)

I can’t imagine a better way to send off my grandfather, a pretty incredible guy.

[“He was sometimes dangerously outspoken, and he liked to try new things.”](http://www.autonews.com/article/20140616/OEM02/306169967/bill-hoglund-candid-and-charismatic?ref=drewshannon.net)

[“That “neighborly” approach followed Hoglund after he resigned in 1995 and retired in Naples, FL, where GM retirees abound. He was one of a number of ex-GM execs I interviewed in 2004 for a feature story in WardsAuto World magazine He was the only one whose home was on an ordinary street rather than in a gated community…Hoglund often bridled at corporate constraints and was considered by GM power brokers as a maverick who did not always buy into the company line.”](http://wardsauto.com/blog/bill-hoglund-dies-79-narrowly-missed-top-spot-gm?ref=drewshannon.net)