Born in the Barn: Part 1
Like the landscape in much of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, the Ewen-Trout Creek school district is a quintessential rural setting, dotted with the weathered structures of once-bustling family farms. One of these buildings is anything but typical; it’s where a decades-long dynasty of championship-caliber high school basketball teams began. This multi-part docu-series explores how this western U.P. high school with fewer than two dozen students per grade has built a basketball tradition that has captured the eyes of sportswriters and the dreams of young ballplayers for generations — and it all began in a unique gymnasium known as “The Barn.”
Kristin Ojaniemi is an award winning documentary filmmaker and video producer in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Her documentary films focus on the culture and history of the U.P. as well as Finnish-America. She is also the newest producer and host of a local outdoors television program “Discovering” on WLUC-TV6. Kristin is a lifelong, proud Yooper (person who lives in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan) who loves the outdoors and storytelling.