The memorial service for former Hillsdale pastor, counselor, and teacher Charles “Chuck” Johnson will be held at College Baptist Church on Monday at 11 a.m., with visitation Sunday from 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. Johnson died Jan. 22 in the Nursing Facility of Hillsdale Hospital after more than 40 years of pastoral and professorial care...
Three billboards hover above a country road outside Ebbing, Missouri, and an entire country’s social issues — race, rape, misogyny, poverty — cling to them like peeling paint. When I saw “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” on a cold Midwestern night a few weeks ago, I didn’t move for ten minutes afterward, for shock. I...
Looking at a yearbook, Judy Knapp can pick out many of her mom’s classmates; she remembers them from a decades-long “round-robin” chain letter that her mother’s friend Martha Kuehn orchestrated for six members of Hillsdale’s classes of 1937 and 1938. Now, as the last living member of the correspondence, Kuehn sends Knapp postcards to stay...
Grove City College Touring Choir will stop at College Baptist in Hillsdale for a free performance at 7 p.m. Feb. 27. The choir will travel across the country, across genres, and across centuries as part of their annual spring break tour, performing pieces as diverse as Palestrina, a Brahms requiem, and Moses Hogan. “We...
The locked box by the register at the Finish Line restaurant caught their eyes: “Frank Talk, 50 cents.” Who sells a magazine that way these days? And for that price? But that was the price of satisfaction for my housemate’s curiosity last week. She and her friends discovered a publication that has papered the...