1/16/2013 "Everglades of the North " @ Henry F. Schricker Library

The Starke County Public Library is proud to present Everglades of the North, produced by Pat Wisniewski, Jeff Manes, Brian Kallies and Tom Desch.  The Library will be showing the documentary  Wednesday, January 16, 2013 from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m.in the meeting room at the Henry F. Schricker Library in Knox.

This one-hour documentary tells the history of the Grand Kankakee Marsh and how people have used and perceived this wetland for more than 10,000 years.  The Grand Kankakee Marsh may have been as large as one million acres in northern Indiana and Illinois and was home to some of the highest concentrations of wildlife and waterfowl in North America.  Less than 5% of the Kankakee River marshes survived modern development an the film explores the important role this wetland played in the history of the area.  It looks at the natural and cultural history of the area and the different uses of the land from the earliest Native Americans to the European settlement to modern agriculture.