When I popped out of the Smithsonian Metro station onto the National Mall last Saturday, it seemed everyone in Washington, D.C. had become an activist for the day. Right outside the station sat a bandstand festooned with American flags. A couple hundred feet away, a Ford F150 was hitching up to a bandwagon decorated with...
“You don’t have to be delicate with that!” Donald Fox shouted at the students dismantling the miscellaneous wooden platform in the scene shop. The new scenic designer for Hillsdale’s theater department, Fox has been reorganizing the workshop behind Markel Auditorium where scenery is constructed. The scene shop is filled with tools, piles of wood, and...
The Victorian double parlor on the ground floor of 112 Broad St. takes visitors back a century. The grand, winding staircase, the large wooden doorframes with classic egg-and-dart moldings, the flamboyant floral wallpaper, and the time-honored touch of a record player and an upright piano all give the room an aura of comfortable living and...
Ruta Sepetys has three bestselling novels under her belt, but the ’89 Hillsdale College alumna’s first book was banned — by the parents of her 3rd-grade classmates. “The Adventures of Betsy,” written in a notebook with a scratch-and-sniff pickle on the cover, drew popularity from 8-year-olds but wary glances from parents. Discouraged, Sepetys put her...
It wasn’t just the thunder of the Chargers coming from the stands during the Hillsdale College football team’s big win — there were Hornets buzzing as well. The Hillsdale High School Hornets marching band joined Hillsdale College Pep Band at Frank “Muddy” Waters Stadium during the Chargers game against the Michigan Tech Huskies last Saturday...