Beer — whether a hoppy straw-colored India Pale Ale or a barrel-aged, almost-black stout that tastes like a liquefied loaf of bread — is more than just a drink. For the plethora of professors and growing number of students on campus who brew, beer brings people together, encourages crazy experiments, and cultivates virtue as both brewers...
In Green Bank, West Virginia, cell phones don’t work. There is no AM or FM radio or wireless devices of any kind. The town uses landlines and cables for internet and telephone. That is because, in this “radio quiet zone,” the world’s largest movable land object rests. Amidst farms and forested hills, a massive white...
Every weekday, from 5:40-10 a.m., Jerry Miller sits at the front of the Roche Sports Complex. For this mild, white-haired gentleman, interaction with people gives life and work their richness. “We laugh here together every morning,” he said. “I do not want people coming through the door with a frown on their face....
Senior Daniel Slonim and junior William Persson can say plenty without making a sound. Slonim interprets songs and sometimes sermons at Pine Ridge Bible Church in Quincy, Michigan, on Sundays, and Persson formerly interpreted his high school’s theater productions in Minnesota. Those experiences, they said, allowed them to access a community they wouldn’t have...
The Hillsdale College John A. Halter Shooting Center is the only college owned shooting facility that is entirely funded by private donations. “This doesn’t exist anywhere else,” Range Master Bartley Spieth said. Since 2008, the shooting sports center has collected $12 million in individual and corporate donations. “The facility is unparalleled when it comes to...