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‘Escanaba in Da Moonlight’ shares U.P. style
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‘Escanaba in Da Moonlight’ shares U.P. style

  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...

Peter Leithart ’81 talks theology and Shakespeare
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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
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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
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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...