On senior Susena Finnegan’s last day working at Jilly Beans café before traveling to Kansas for the summer, a regular customer came through the door. Often, she came with gifts. Once, it was a doll, another time, an espresso glass. “She brought me a watermelon,” Finegan said with a chuckle. “She said, ‘I knew you...
After Betty Cooper greeted the audience at the 75th anniversary jubilee of her town, she asked: “But what is Riverdale? It’s the people, right?” “Riverdale,” the TV drama inspired by the iconic characters from Archie Comics, takes a dark look at small-town America, perverting the nostalgic perfection as it is often stereotyped. The show will...
Harvard University topped the second annual U.S. colleges rankings published in The Wall Street Journal from Times Higher Education, but the “conservative Harvard” was once again excluded. The Journal published on Sept. 27 a 10-page section with a list of private and public colleges and universities ranked by THE, a London-based organization that analyzes...
Monster trucks, country concerts, and horse races: Over the 167 years of its history, the Hillsdale County Fair has seen all sorts of attractions. Old newspaper clips even report that Wilbur and Orville Wright, the brothers who became the first to fly an airplane in 1903, performed a demonstration at the Hillsdale County Fair more...
Wherever popularity goes, parking problems follow. L. W. Meeks recounted in a local newspaper in 1950 his first visit to the Hillsdale County Fair in 1897. After a seven-mile wagon ride, almost all of the hitching space for the horses were full. Afterall, he was at “The Most Popular Fair on Earth.” Although the Hillsdale...