The first smell is the deep, rich smell of coffee, reminiscent of lazy, warm winter mornings. The second is the sweet smell of cookies, recalling old-world holidays and childhood. The walls are lined by sporadic bookshelves, which hold classics like “The Iliad,” “Romeo and Juliet,” and “The Scarlet Letter.” Little green plants line the windows...
The Tower Players have begun their performance of “Light in the Piazza,” a romantic musical that takes place in Florence, Italy. Directed by Tory Matsos and adapted as a Tony award-winning musical from a 1960’s novella of the same name, the play follows the travels and difficulties of Margaret Johnson (Michaela Stiles) and her daughter...
Teacher of piano Debbi Wyse added one of the last tiles to the “mosaic” of her Hillsdale music career last weekend as she played a duo concert — also titled “Mosaic”— with pianist Kristi Gautsche. The name was fitting, as the story of a musician as talented as Debbi Wyse is best told through a...
The Graceland girls, all six of them, lounge in their living room on a Wednesday night. All is calm until one yells “Soundoff!” Cries of “one, two, three, four, five, six” echo through the house. From the other room comes the cry “seven!” “Seven” comes from junior Jane O’Connor, who is studying across the hall....
Years ago, it was an ordinary home. But for Mary Ewers, driving by the home was like love at first sight. The moment she bought the house was the magical moment that The ‘Buena Vista’ home was born, right on the streets of Hillsdale. Ewers, director of parent relations and the President’s Club, bought the...