In their end-of-the-semester concert, the Hillsdale College Symphony Orchestra features a repertoire representing a blend of classical and jazz music, opening with the “Hansel and Gretel” opera by Engelbert Humperdinck, and ending with banjo and jazz-infused classical piece after the intermission. The excerpts from “Hansel and Gretel” consist of four movements, one of which has...
Library: a place to borrow books, so you don’t have to buy them. But the Hillsdale College Mossey library has a stash of free books –– books that you don’t have to bring back –– and it’s available to anyone. “Most of the books that are available are donated by patrons, friends of the college,”...
As the weather gets colder and the days get shorter, food and drinks give a little pumpkin spice to the class-laden days as the semester moves towards its end. While pumpkin-anything is the traditional food of fall, apple cider, caramel-covered apples, and, the Saga favorite, apple butter, are readily available at local apple orchards. There...
On Saturday of homecoming weekend, alumni of Delta Tau Delta fraternity returned not only to see brothers and old friends, but also for the ribbon-cutting ceremony of their old fraternity’s new house on Manning Street. Hillsdale College had the Delts’ former house bulldozed after the fraternity was disbanded in 2003. Since the fraternity was resurrected...
The old, white country church no longer smells of musty hymnals and dust-covered pews, but the smell of freshly ground coffee wafts through the halls of the newly renovated building. The old Episcopal Church was on the path to demolition, when two local women who grew up in Jonesville were in a position to buy...