Channeling the Upper Peninsula stereotype centered on beer, guns, and lots of flannel, the Sauk Theatre’s most recent production “Escanaba in Da Moonlight” features Hillsdale College’s own admissions counselor, Matt Sauer ’16. “I had heard of the play before being a part of the production, when I had accidentally rented the movie during middle...
Category: Alumni
Peter Leithart ’81 talks theology and Shakespeare
Dr. Peter J. Leithart ’81 is an author and theologian as well as the president of Theopolis Institute for Biblical, Liturgical, & Cultural Studies. Leithart spoke on campus last week about the “achievement, failure, and promise” of the Reformation in the final keynote lecture of the series “This Far By Faith: The Reformation at 500.”...
From concept to clay: A look inside a sculptor’s creative process
Sometimes, when Hillsdale County sculptor Heather Tritchka ’98 is working on a statue, the facial emotions on the sculpture seem to reflect those of of the sculptor, her husband Greg Stuchell said. “If she’s was really joyful that day, the statue’s face would look more like it’s smiling,” Stuchell said. “If she was in a...
Alumna presents passion for pottery
One summer in the 1970s, while driving home from discussing art theory in a watercolor class, alumna Linda Shiffler noticed things didn’t look the same. “I saw things in a completely different light,” she said. “That a tree isn’t black, or it isn’t grey, or it isn’t brown, it’s a mixture of many colors. And...
Bullfighting and bigfoot: The ‘Remnant’ podcast
When Jack Butler ’15 splices together the audio that makes up the ‘Remnant’ podcast by Jonah Goldberg, he brings together some of the most varied content in podcasting. The first 17 episodes have featured Senator Ben Sasse, R-Nebraska, talking about what it’s like to watch a bullfight; Ramesh Ponnuru, a senior editor of National Review,...




