About Bill Phillips
Bill Phillips’ love of the Hockhocking Adena Bikeway started years before he moved to the Hocking Hills.
While Bill lived in Columbus and worked as a genealogist, he would come to the Hocking Hills to enjoy the landscape and the pace of life. While touring the countryside in 1985, he saw a “For sale” sign on a property and decided to look into it. Within a few weeks, he owned the property.
As first a visitor and later a community member, Bill enjoyed spending time on the bike trail that spans from Nelsonville to Athens.
“It’s fun,” he said. “It promotes good health and is a good way to relax. And the scenery along the bike path is outstanding.”
On the bike path, Bill found a place where community members and visitors could enjoy the outdoors, test their physical limits and explore their gratitude for the gifts of nature and their ability to enjoy it. To share his love for the bike path, Bill wrote a poem, “The Bike Trail,” which is published in his More Hill Country Poems (2015).
It should come as no surprise that as Bill was planning his estate with his attorney he was looking for a chance to give back by investing in the bike path.
“I thought I would help other people enjoy what I have enjoyed,” Bill said.
By planning to leave a gift through his will, Bill and the fund that will be established in his name will help people enjoy the Hocking Adena Bikeway for generations to come.
Support the William L. Phillips Fund
Gifts to the William L. Phillips Fund are tax-deductible and can be made in many ways, including cash, bequests, stock, real estate, royalties, insurance beneficiaries and qualified charitable distributions from IRAs.
To mail your donation, please designate the fund and mail to the Foundation for Appalachian Ohio, 35 Public Square, Nelsonville, OH 45764.
Donations can be made online by designating the William L. Phillips Fund when donating.