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Genuine Draft and the beauty of genuine jazz
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Genuine Draft and the beauty of genuine jazz

When performing jazz, musicians never quite know where the music will take them until they’re in the middle of it. The flutist nears the end of the song and decides she’s explored every aspect of the solo she wanted to that night. She begins to play quieter as she finishes out the bar, signaling the...

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Reading Emergency Unit brings elderly ‘home for the holidays’

Every Christmas, up to 10 nursing-home-bound residents make their way to a real home to celebrate the holiday in a relaxed, homey environment with those who love them, thanks to Reading Emergency Unit’s Home for the Holidays Program. The program, which has been around for almost 15 years, offers this service on both Thanksgiving and...

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Wandeling Press: Alumnae wander into publishing

For some graduates, the concept of working together with the dear friends made at Hillsdale seems unfeasible. For Hillsdale alumnae Betsy Howard ’10 and Laura Kern ’12, however, their common ideas developed into a shared vision to found a publishing house for children’s books, entitled Wandeling Press. Howard and Kern knew each other from afar...

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Hillsdale alumnus helps Pai with Thai

Hillsdale alumnus Mason Stuard ’14 reclined in his A.J.’s Café chair sporting a new undercut hairstyle he proudly did himself. His trusty cane and sidekick, York, sits beside him. After receiving a B.A. in history from Hillsdale College, Stuard returned in July of 2015 to complete his online masters in Library Information Science from Kent...

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Nation’s oldest working auctioneer lives in Hillsdale County

As the snow fell thick and steady at the Hillsdale Fairgrounds, a crowd of farmers huddled outside around a diminutive figure who commanded his audience with a wooden cane and voice that pierced the biting wind with rhythmic certainty. “C’mon partner! Do I hear a $320, $325?” the elderly man said as the price of...