“It was so smoky that you couldn’t even see your hand in front of your face.” Local farmer Ron Poling stood watching as his barn burned down in Oct. 2021. The Hillsdale community has been struggling with farm fires over the last several months. The most recent farm fire took place in Camden township in...
For most new house directors, winning over 180 guys isn’t easy, but for Peggy Wilson, all it took was her Ford F-250. When Wilson first became house director of Simpson dormitory in 2014, she wasn’t sure how she would handle so many boys in one place. “At that time, it was before the renovations, so...
What do sketchy taxi rides to a suspicious pharmacy, brawls in the street, and shaking the hand of the Hungarian Ambassador have in common? All were experienced in a long-anticipated spring break Italy trip. Two separate groups left Hillsdale and flew to Rome for Spring Break. Senior Andrew Szewc said tickets to Rome were cheap...
Hillsdale’s campus houses a politician, a newspaper editor, a filmmaker, a stand-up comedian, an ordained minister, and a magician. His name is Buddy Moorehouse. Moorehouse is an adjunct instructor of documentary journalism at Hillsdale. His relationship with the college began in 2014 when John Miller, director of the Dow journalism program, invited him to speak...
For Hillsdale Union soldiers riding the Sultana, a steamship headed for Cairo, Illinois, the agonies of the Civil war seemed to be over — that is, until the Sultana exploded. On April 24, 1865, over 2,200 Union soldiers, including the Hillsdale County 18th Michigan Infantry, boarded the Sultana after having been released as prisoners of...