Showrooms full of pianos, guitars, and violins, venues for live musical performances, remarkable customer service, and a slide—don’t forget the slide. Hillsdale College students took a trip to the Sweetwater Sound Inc. in Fort Wayne, IN on Feb. 5. “The best way to describe Sweetwater: It’s an IKEA for music,” junior Michael Thelen said. “You...
The Hillsdale City Police Department arrested a local man who allegedly committed a stabbing on Tuesday evening. Police arrested 39-year-old Shaun David Helton after 6:30 p.m. on Feb. 8, Hillsdale City Fire and Police Chief Scott Hephner said. Helton allegedly used a folding knife to stab a man multiple times, according to a warrant request...
Anna Navrotskaya is a professor of French at Hillsdale College. This interview has been edited for length, clarity, and style. What is the most interesting place you’ve been? As I come from a Jewish family, it was Jerusalem. When I went there for the first time, I got off the plane and started crying. There...
Distinguished Associate Professor of History Darryl G. Hart lectured on Benjamin Franklin’s unexpected spiritual life on Tuesday evening. “Benjamin Franklin: Cultural Protestant” is the second book in his series on the spiritual lives of the Founders. According to Hart, readers may be surprised that the spiritual series features the seemingly secular Franklin. “He was steeped...
After cultivating a close relationship with Associate Professor of English Dwight Lindley and his family in her first year at college, sophomore Tess Owen chose to spend her second year at Hillsdale living with the family instead of returning to an on-campus residence hall. “I knew this would be a very unusual situation,” Owen said....