Hillsdale College theater majors and minors swept the American College Theater Festival in three categories Jan. 8-13. Seniors Emma Trist, Jessica McFarlane, Shiloh Carozza, and Judy Moreno, and junior Madeline Campbell traveled to Wisconsin for the regional ACTF competition. Trist competed and was selected as a finalist for her set design of “Harun and the...
For the love of fiction: Faculty favorites displayed in Mossey
For a limited time only, members of the Hillsdale College community have the opportunity to peer into the lives and minds of their professors and faculty from the comfort of Mossey Library. Librarian Brenna Wade spent part of her Christmas break investigating professor’s favorite books and arranging them in a display in the entrance to...
Living like a cyclamen flower: What Israel taught me about resilience
I didn’t expect to see my boyfriend on one knee by the Sea of Galilee, where Christ once walked on the water, calmed the storms, and filled Peter’s nets full of fish — but my engagement was not the biggest shock of my ten-day journey in Israel this month. When I first applied to Passages,...
Great Cookbooks: Cooking, life lessons from Julia Child
For Christmas this year, I asked for “Mastering the Art of French Cooking,” by Julia Child, Louisette Bertholle, and Simone Beck, a cookbook published in 1961. I couldn’t wait to crack that famous teal-and-white cover and try my hand at a sauce chantilly or a coq au vin. As I pulled back the box-lid on...
‘In their own words’: WWI documentary breathes life into old footage
“They Shall Not Grow Old” opens with black and white reels of young, British soldiers heading off to war, overlain with upbeat whistling and audio interviews of World War I veterans. Slowly, unbelievably, the footage expands and transforms into an immersive world of colorized film. The audience is transported into the daily life of a...




