This Friday at 8 p.m., Hillsdale students will have the opportunity to experience Plaster Auditorium’s inaugural performance — jazz. The Hillsdale College John E.N. & Dede Howard Department of Music will present “Big Band and Little Big Band,” a jazz concert featuring Mike Williams, the lead trumpet for the Count Basie Orchestra, one of...
The art honorary Alpha Rho Tau will be hosting an embroidery night on Tuesday, Nov. 5 in the student union TV room. If there’s one trait that a spunky heroine in a fantasy or historical novel possesses, it’s that she probably hates doing needlework when she’d rather be secretly practicing swordsmanship. But embroidery enthusiast...
To be a concert pianist, university professor, author, researcher, studio teacher, and keynote speaker all at once is not an easy feat. But William Westney has checked all of those off his bucket list. “He’s performed all over the world,” said James Holleman, chairman of the music department. “He gets rave reviews from serious critiques....
Alan Gribben is a Mark Twain Scholar who has devoted more than 50 years to reconstructing Mark Twain’s library. In addition, Gribben rose to fame with his editions of the “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” and “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” in which he removed and replaced the N-word with the word “slave” instead. (For...
With photographs of babies and families, and a speed painting presentation from Even Struck, the Jackson/Hillsdale chapter of Michigan Association of Infant Mental Health, hosted an event on Oct. 22 at Rough Draft for “Celebrate Babies Week.” The Michigan Association of Infant Mental Health is a non-profit professional organization that promotes optimal infant and...