Scrolling through Twitter in the middle of January, Joseph Garnjobst, professor of classics, encountered blackout poetry — a form of poetry composed by selecting words on a page from a book or printed article and blacking out all the extra words, creating a poem. The next day, he picked up an old newspaper sitting...
Hillsdale’s leadership honorary, Omicron Delta Kappa, is hosting a fundraiser at Rough Draft on April 12 in which five percent of all the purchases that day will go to Hillsdale High School. This is its fundraising event for the year and the choice to partner with a local company to benefit the community directly is...
If the four biggest coffee shops in Hillsdale — Checker Records, Jilly Beans, Biggby’s, and Rough Draft, — have anything to say, the increasing variety of coffee shop experiences in town have had no negative influence on business, but rather have increased activity in downtown. Checker Records is known for not only its...
Hillsdale College yoga instructor Leah Novak’s Rough Draft yoga classes began Thursday at 7:15 a.m. This is Novak’s first off-campus class since arriving in Hillsdale during the spring of 2016. She started teaching an evening class at Roche Sports Complex in spring 2016 and for class credits in spring 2017. “It’s about awakening and preparing...
On a trip down to Nashville to visit her sister, Carly Hubbard, owner of Rough Draft Coffee and Cocktails, heard about a group that tucks into the backrooms of local bars to raise their voices together in worship. The idea of a “pub sing” really appealed to Hubbard. “I have always been amazed at how,...