Despite what a foot of snow on the ground may indicate, it’s baseball season. The Chargers will travel to Johnson City, Tennessee, this weekend to open their season with a four-game set against former GLIAC foe Saginaw Valley. After graduating only two seniors from last year’s squad, Hillsdale brings an experienced group to its first...
WASHINGTON — Lucas Morel is a professor of politics and head of the politics department at Washington and Lee University. His scholarship focuses on Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and Ralph Ellison. He is the author of “Ralph Ellison and the Raft of Hope: A Political Companion to the Invisible Man” (2004) and “Religion’s Sacred Effort:...
Irrigation systems, circuit breakers, open wells don’t mix well with storage of sports equipment. Until now, the Hillsdale Recreation Department has had to cram all of this and more into one room at Field of Dreams. Now, thanks to generous donations from community members and a $9,134 grant from the Hillsdale County Community Foundation,...
WASHINGTON — Unsure of his exact birth date in 1818, Frederick Douglass chose to celebrate on Feb. 14. So on Tuesday, the eve of his 200th birthday, a gathering at Hillsdale’s Allan P. Kirby Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship honored him in style — with a public lecture, a reception, and a brand-new painting....
A little inexperience never stopped freshman Charity Tyne. When Tyne found out there was no club hockey team at Hillsdale College, she decided to start her own, even though she had never played before. She organized a group of 20 inexperienced players and found a local, private rink. “Some people have gotten really good,” Tyne...