This video is an expanded version of the award-winning program from 1998 and will appeal to anyone who has ever loved a river. You will see this river and all rivers in a new light after hearing people who have lived here share the history through humor, art and music.

Old-timers and historians, biologists and farmers, Native Americans and loggers from the headwaters of the Northern California river in Mendocino County to the mouth at the Pacific
coast offer their perspectives of the River.
•Vivid stories of Pomo basket weaving
•Logging boom in river towns
•Train trips from San Francisco for hordes of vacationers
• Hey-days of the Big Bands in the 30’s & 40’s

Visit the history of farming along the river from hops to grapes to prunes and pears and back to grapes – the basis of today’s premium wine industry. Recreational stories include the days of boat clubs and water skiing and more recent canoeing. And always there was fishing, as one storyteller remembers catching a steelhead on his back-cast when fish were thriving in the River.