COURTESY PHOTO OF BRIANNA STEVENS As soon as the lights go down, the voices go down with them. The audience, filled with everyone from grandparents to classmates to little siblings, starts to turn their heads toward the stage, and within a few seconds the lights dim and the music starts […]
Author: Grace Dawson
First Impressions of Red Dead Redemption 2
COURTESY PHOTO Red Dead Redemption 2(2018) is the long-awaited sequel to Red Dead Redemption(2010). Red Dead 2 is another Grand Theft Auto-style game set in the old west with cowboys and Native Americans. Upon my very first impression of the game, I quickly noticed the developers put a ton of detail into […]
The Haunting of Hill House: A Horrifyingly Real Depiction of Family
It’s that time of the year again, for dusting away real spider webs to replace them with stretched cotton and turning on Netflix to watch another horror series about a haunted house. What makes The Haunting of Hill House, created by Mike Flanagan, different than most horror series, is that it […]
It’s a Cold War After All, Part 3
The next chapter that is important to our story is far in the future from the last one. And only weeks ago from where we are now. Its fitting isn’t it, Damien? How far we went before we reached the end, I mean. Dad always said we were survivors. I […]
The Global Engagement Office
This semester, last fall, for the first time in my life, I stepped from a plane that departed from Boston, my home, and was spit out as far as I could have possibly gotten from my comfort zone. A kind cab driver from the airport dropped me off with my […]
Dracula in 10 Seconds
COURTESY OF JARED GENDRON
Castle in the Clouds
Plymouth State’s School of Business has taken a great hold on their newly integrated Innovation and Entrepreneurship Cluster. For some background information, the university began implementing a new way of learning, which they call the Clusters Approach. This new approach to learning brings students and real-world businesses together through partnerships […]
Sharon McDermott’s Visit to Plymouth State
COURTESY PHOTO BRIAN MCDERMOTT Sharon McDermott is a recently published poet, who graced our campus with her presence last Thursday, October 25th. She came here to talk with some English classes, visit with her good friend Professor Ahl and to promote her new book, Life Without Furniture. McDermott is currently living in […]
A Peek into the Spirit World: The Chair
There are many objects in this world that are said to link us to the spirit world. Ouija boards, the infamous Annabelle doll, and here at Plymouth State, we have the chair. The chair was brought to Plymouth State for when the Silver Center for the Arts ran the show, […]
A Weekly Dose of Mindfulness with Meditation Mondays
Having passed the mid-term checkpoint of the semester already, many students may start to feel some burnout as they inch towards the end of the semester. Everybody is handling a full-plate and trying to keep their heads in the game through meticulous scheduling and long study sessions. If you feel […]