Imagine you are driving home for break – the stress of finals behind you – when you get stranded on the side of the road during a snowstorm. This isn’t just any street, but a barren road in the Upper Peninsula. According to Joe Kellam, associate director of security and emergency management, this very situation...
The photography and paintings of Hillsdale College professors Doug Coon and Sam Knecht will be displayed this week in “Looking U.P.” – an exhibit that shows the beauty of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. “I love the U.P. for how remote and foreign it is,” Knecht said in an email. “It eludes mainstream America and provides so...
To junior Michael Whitman and sophomore Hannah Hayes, Hillsdale isn’t that small. In the tiny towns of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, everyone knows everyone’s business. People don’t know it any other way. Whitman says he recalls visiting Milwaukee, his first time in a big city. “And it was just the wildest thing; It was the...