“It’s gonna be smokin,’” Music Department Chair James Holleman said of the upcoming Hillcats Faculty Jazz concert. This Friday the Hillcats will jazzify the music of James Taylor in the McNamara Rehearsal Hall at 8:00 p.m. No tickets are required. The concert will feature vocalist and bassist Hank Horton, a voice and base instructor at...
Dennis Covington was born in 1948 and raised in Birmingham, Alabama. In college, he studied under American short story writer Peter Taylor at the University of Virginia, where he earned his bachelor’s degree. Covington was drafted upon graduation, and served two years in the U.S. Army before entering the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, whose...
The small Dow A and B conference room bustled with eager students and excited professors who awaited author Dennis Covington’s reading from his renowned, “Salvation on Sand Mountain,” an account detailing his experience with Christian snakehandlers in the Appalachian Mountains. Professor of English John Somerville Jr. invited Covington to speak on Feb. 18 as part...
Thud. Thud. Thud. It’s Friday night and Reagan Cool is making seven pizzas. The herb-seasoned dough makes another thud against the counter as she pushes in her rolling pin. When junior Reagan Cool went to Washington, D.C., in the fall, as a part of the Washington-Hillsdale Internship Program, she was thinking about intentionality. Having been...
For Hillsdale alumni Roxanne and Nathan Seither, taking a hike was one of the best things that ever happened to them. It was there, on the coast of Lake Superior in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, that they tried their first pasties-and fell in love. From then on, their freezer became the home of many...