“I may be wrong, but I doubt that Jane Austen would have quite approved of the movies.” That’s how James Bowman, film critic at the American Spectator and author, kicked off the much-anticipated “Jane Austen on Film” Center for Constructive Alternatives lecture series on Sunday, March 7. Bowman’s lecture focused on the major moral theme...
Author: Emma Cummins (Emma Cummins)
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‘Anything goes for the Icelandic chicken:’ Biology professor talks homesteading and raising chickens at Mossey Library lecture
If you visited the homestead “Antique Stonehope,” you would soon be surrounded by Icelandic chickens, turkeys, and, if you were really lucky, a wheat field. Assistant Professor of Biology Christopher Heckel grew up on a dairy farm in Litchfield, Michigan, but he now spends his free time raising “viking chickens” and doing other homesteading projects...
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‘Moving back to America:’ Students and families affected by state migration
The distance between Bartlett, Illinois and Fairhope, Alabama is 950 miles. About a 13 and a half hour drive by car. To the Troyke family, moving from Illinois to Alabama felt like “moving back to America.” “They took a trip to Fairhope and people were normal. They weren’t afraid of each other. No one was...
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Art students’ pieces accepted into gallery
Eastern Michigan University Gallery has accepted art pieces from Hillsdale College seniors Caroline Greb and Heidi Yacoubian. Greb submitted a collage, which is a composition of materials and objects pasted over a surface, to a gallery held by Eastern Michigan University open to undergraduates in the Midwest. “I thought my chances were very low,” Greb...
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Michigan allows indoor dining, limits capacity
On Jan. 22, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer announced that restaurants and bars in the state can reopen for indoor dining on Feb. 1, as long as seating is limited to 25% capacity or 100 people, whichever is smaller. They must also close by 10 p.m. “When I saw the announcement I thought, ‘Well, it’s about...