Flowers for Benton Harbor, MI

Two towns, one river mouth. Benton Harbor and St. Joseph face each other across the last bend of the St. Joseph River before it spills into Lake Michigan, and for the florist trade they function as a single market — one hospital between them, one harbor, and a steady traffic of orders crossing the bridge in both directions. Benton Harbor carries the industrial story: Whirlpool runs its global headquarters here, and the riverfront has spent years reinventing itself around the Water Street Arts District, the marina, and the wide dune expanse of Jean Klock Park where the horizon is nothing but water. A given afternoon's deliveries might be a congratulations basket for a Whirlpool office, a get-well arrangement carried into Corewell Lakeland on the St. Joe side, and a sympathy piece bound for a service off Colfax or Territorial Road.

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