Grand Valley Reinstalls Artwork Blaspheming Jesus’s Mother by Krista Yetzke enjoyer.com/grand-valley-r…

Noah Mullins, the GVSU senior who successfully led the charge to get the artwork taken down the first time around, is determined to do it again. As a Catholic, his motive is personal. “Using Mary to promote this worldly ideology that is clearly against Catholic teaching, most

Beltran describes her piece entitled Petalos de Cambio (Petals of Change) as addressing issues in Mexico such as “homophobia, gender-based violence, and mental health stigma” that continue to perpetuate “cycles of discrimination and exclusion” and create “barriers to equality and

Calling the artwork’s depictions of Mary “blasphemous” and “sacrilegious,” students reached out to GVSU leadership who met with them last October. School officials told students that the purpose of their time together was for the students to feel heard and understood, but that

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The mighty lumberjacks at sport in Mackinaw City O.W. Root

Did the Klan, the Mob, or the Purple Gang Bomb This Fruit Store? Logan Washburn enjoyer.com/cascarelli-fru…

Cascarelli ran a fruit store on the main drag through town, according to the Hillsdale County Historical Society. He, his son Joseph, and nephew Frank were sleeping in an apartment above the store on June 24, 1923, when an explosion burst behind the store at 3 a.m.

While numerous Italian immigrants thrived in a Hillsdale neighborhood known as “Little Italy,” this also attracted unwanted attention—including from the Ku Klux Klan. The KKK came to Hillsdale in 1923, the same year as the bombing, according to the Hillsdale County Historical

While most evidence seems to suggest The Black Hand, several different groups could also have been behind the bombing. Robert Cascarelli’s store in Albion was directly across the street from a recurring meetup for The Purple Gang—Detroit’s most notorious Prohibition-era crime

Why I Didn’t Come Home With Jars of Bear Grease TheFairChase enjoyer.com/missed-bear-hu…

When I got to the U.P., everything seemed to fall apart. It was hot, the wind was wrong, and it kept raining at the worst possible times. To make matters worse, I was hunting right on the Eastern/Central time zone line, and my phone kept switching back and forth without me

On day two, a bear showed up right at last light. I tried to sneak closer, but he kept moving behind dips in the landscape. With fading light, I took a marginal shot and missed. The bear came back out two hours later, well after dark. TheFairChase

Every failed hunt teaches you something about patience and accepting things beyond your control. Every missed opportunity shows you where you need to improve. Every long drive home gives you time to think about what really matters. The bears are still out there, and I’ll be

The Lumberjacks Still Survive O.W. Root enjoyer.com/lumberjacks-st…

Remember lumberjacks? The guys with the red-and-black flannel shirts, dirty blue jeans, scruffy beards, and big axes? We know them through grainy black-and-white photos in history books. There they are in the middle of a damp pine forest. They look up in awe at a giant redwood

A French lumberjack? An Italian lumberjack? Don’t make me laugh. The lumberjack is American. He is of the new world. His archetype is one of the frontier. The image of him—a rugged and daring individual of the north woods is part of our story. O.W. Root

We don’t see too many of those fabled lumberjacks in our backwoods these days. But they’re still around, in some way, if you know where to look. In Mackinaw City, you can watch a couple guys in sawdust-covered flannels, wielding polished axes with the precision of sushi chefs,