2022-2023
8-PART DOCUMENTARY SERIES
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.”
PART 1: THE BARN
Part 1 begins in “The Barn” – the original home of Ewen-Trout Creek basketball legends – now owned by 1972 All-Star center
Gary Fors - where the hardwood still shines, and kids still learn the game.
PART 2: SMALL TOWN TO STATE CHAMPS
In 1972, a small-town boys basketball team won the state championship and 50 years later their grandsons are on their way to possibly do it again.
