Only three houses designed by the famous 19th-century architect George Barber exist in Gaylord, Michigan. Two married Hillsdale alumni live in one of them. Jerry and Margaret Albert now live in a 121-year-old historic house that is located less than 4 hours from Hillsdale. Their home became a Michigan State Historic Site in 1993 and joined the National Register of...
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To feed the Charger football team, moms play quarterback
When the RVs filled with families roll in Friday night and Saturday morning for a home game, the football players know it means one thing: Mom’s food. Well, and family, too. The post-game comfort-food buffet last Saturday punctuated the final tailgate of the season. Like every other home-game tailgate this season, slow cookers and Tupperware crowded the tables spread across...
The sojourner in the flower shop
Jane Stewart picked her first flower when she was three, and she never stopped. Her parents tended a massive garden, and she grew up hauling water from the lake for the plants, planting rows of crops, canning produce, and checking off the long list of chores that kept them fed. Every once in awhile, her family would go into town...
Free-market firefighter: Wolfram spent summers battling California blazes
At the age of 18, Gary Wolfram found himself alongside his foreman and a handful of California Department of Corrections inmates on work release, caught in the middle of the Burrows Valley wildfire, as manzanita bushes exploded around him. “Your shirt could catch on fire, so we had to line up, and when the guy’s shirt in front of you...
More than a name change: ‘politics,’ not ‘political science’
For most of Hillsdale’s history, students who studied politics graduated with a degree in political science. Now, they graduate with a degree in politics. History and political science existed as one department until 2000. When President Larry Arnn arrived, political science professors separated from the history department and took on a new department name: politics. “Hillsdale makes the claim that...
Plein-air makes perfect
One bright Thursday in October, senior Anna Zemaitaitis exchanged her studio easel and heavy wooden palette for a lightweight easel, cans of mineral spirits, and palette paper and ventured with her classmates to Half Moon Lake Road to capture the canopied dirt roads full of fall color. “We were like, ‘I can’t believe we’re doing this for a class! We’re...
