Tucked away in a small valley in the Northern hills of Columbia lies fields teeming with coffee beans and sugar cane plants. This is the home of Café Coronel, a coffee company named after Colonel Ariel Vargas, better known in Hillsdale as senior Juan Vargas Hernández’s father. Seven years ago, the Vargas family traded the...
Darwin Kinney served on the famed USS Intrepid and won an award previously given to legendary aviators such as Charles Lindbergh and Amelia Earhart. Yet, he originally chose to join the Navy because it was the only branch that didn’t require wearing a tie. A Hillsdale County native, Kinney was inducted to the Hillsdale County...
Cowboy boots, Tolkien shirts, massive belt buckles, a sweet southern drawl — those were my first impressions of the man who would be my roommate sophomore year. He was no boring Michigander, but a character straight out of my imagination of the South. I came from a totally different direction: the barely-represented Northeast. I sported...
Few can say that their first job after college was with the Wall Street Journal. Just a few years after graduating, students who minored in journalism already applytheir Hillsdale education to their full-time jobs at news publications. I checked in with three recent graduates to see what they are doing now and how their time...
Buddy Moorehouse is an adjunct professor of video storytelling. This interview has been edited for length and clarity. What is your favorite dessert? Pineapple upside down cake. It’s got everything that you need. It’s sweet, it has texture, and it even has a little fruit in it so you don’t have to feel quite as...