You may never have heard of Ferry Farms, but if you’ve ever had a burger in the cafeteria, you’ve eaten their products. The local Litchfield farm, spanning nearly 2,000 acres, supplies ground beef and fresh butter to Bon Appetit as part of its local food mission. But Ferry Farms is not just your average beef...
Alum pursues the ‘goods,’ the true and the beautiful
“It was more or less through a fun, happy accident that I am now slinging Turkish rugs in the United States.” The American Dream—or at least an iteration of it which Evan Gage ’14 describes as “objectively quirky.” Gage Goods is a “social slash business experiment” which, vitalized by the aforementioned rug-slinging, grew out of...
College endowments and cattle-rustlers: The story of John Cole
When Jim Cole invited me to his 120-year-old farmhouse to see a 160-year-old picture of Hillsdale College, I wasn’t sure what I had gotten myself into. “You ain’t scared of big dogs, are you?” he asked over the phone. I brought along beef jerky to cajole the two hounds that guard his driveway. He told...
Quick Hits: Matthew Gaetano
What is the most memorable gift you’ve ever received? My wife, Amy, arranged for me to spend a few days at a house of studies for the Dominican Order. At the time, I was completing my dissertation on the Dominicans. What is one memory from your childhood that stands out to you? It was the...
Hillsdale through the eyes of Greg McLogan
The year is 1986, and Sigma Chi Greg McLogan is driving his dad’s 1985 Pontiac Fiero, while blasting New Order’s “Age of Consent,” around Baw Beese lake. He captured it all on his VHS-recording video camera. McLogan’s borrowed his dad’s camera while he was in college, and McLogan would use it to capture the youthful...