ELKHART — From Hillsdale in Michigan, through northern Indiana and eventually into Lake Michigan, the 206-mile-long St. Joseph River has had a major impact on life for thousands of years.
Now an ambitious documentary from WNIT, Michiana’s PBS station, tells the story of the river and the people who have lived along its shores in “St. Joseph River … Then, Now, Always.”
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