What is the most memorable gift you’ve ever received? My wife, Amy, arranged for me to spend a few days at a house of studies for the Dominican Order. At the time, I was completing my dissertation on the Dominicans. What is one memory from your childhood that stands out to you? It was the...
The year is 1986, and Sigma Chi Greg McLogan is driving his dad’s 1985 Pontiac Fiero, while blasting New Order’s “Age of Consent,” around Baw Beese lake. He captured it all on his VHS-recording video camera. McLogan’s borrowed his dad’s camera while he was in college, and McLogan would use it to capture the youthful...
Without any sort of business sign, it’s easy to mistake the stately, Victorian house situated on the corner of South Manning Street as just another one of Hillsdale’s many historic homes. The house, however, is one of Hillsdale’s best kept secrets—the Rose Corner Inn. Michigan natives Donald and Catherine Hernandez established the Rose Corner Inn,...
Who knew the words of a stranger could be some of the most intimate? On a summer day in Traverse City, passersby let the T.C. Street Poet craft their vulnerabilities into touching poems. Though she kept her identity a secret that day, she happens to be one of Hillsdale’s very own. Senior Mary Caroline Whims...
When Ethan Visser heard the noon bell ring from the top of a two-story bunk house he was building, he put down his hammer and nails, took off his hat, and bowed his head to pray the Angelus. Looking out over the pastures and garden dotted with boys working, he saw a wave of heads...