“The dog’s been too busy to chase cars—now he just takes their license plate numbers.” We stand and watch as Henry’s pup, a black and white border collie, runs across the dirt road and bounds through the soybeans. Rex lives a portentous life, I gather. When he’s not pestering steers or investigating tractors, he lies...
When Jim Cole invited me to his 120-year-old farmhouse to see a 160-year-old picture of Hillsdale College, I wasn’t sure what I had gotten myself into. “You ain’t scared of big dogs, are you?” he asked over the phone. I brought along beef jerky to cajole the two hounds that guard his driveway. He told...
If you watched President Donald Trump’s campaign speech in Pennsylvania earlier this week, you may have seen some unexpected attendees in the background: three Amish men. Turning and pointing to them, Trump remarked, “We have Pennsylvania Dutch…but they’re not known for going out and voting. Don’t tell anyone, but the Pennsylvania Dutch are voting en...
Last week, a large yellow excavator flattened the final wall that once enclosed the Hillsdale Revival Center, a Pentecostal church on West Street. “The underground church,” as locals and students christened it, was left abandoned for several years. It had a brick vestibule, which faced the street, buttressed by a long basement that ran out...
After he suffered a stroke in class on Sept. 2, Professor of English Michael Jordan announced a week later he would retire the next day. A mainstay of the English department for the past 29 years, Jordan first joined Hillsdale’s faculty in 1991 as an assistant professor. After being promoted to associate professor, Jordan became...