On our way home from visiting family in Montana, we stopped at Coulee Dam, Washington to see the Grand Coulee Dam.
About the dam - "Grand Coulee Dam, one of the largest concrete structures in the world ... After decades of planning, it was built over an 8-year period, starting in 1933, as a depression relief project.
Grand Coulee is a hydroelectric dam, and part of the Columbia River Hydro System, a series of 14 dams harnessing the energy of the mighty Columbia River. ... Grand Coulee Dam is the largest U.S. producer of hydro-electric energy... power that is supplied to British Columbia and hundreds of towns and cities in the western states. Grand Coulee Dam also provides water that irrigates over 500,000 acres of eastern Washington... Source
We stayed at the Columbia River Inn
"After Work" by Rich Beyer
Notice the dam in the background
There are two sculptures by this artist in Kirkland
Storyteller and Carousel
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That evening we walked across the street to the visitor’s center for the dam to watch a half hour laser show that was projected on the dam. The “narrator” of the story was the Columbia River. The river tells the story of how and why the Grand Coulee Dam was built.
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Grand Coulee - ancient riverbed in Washington. Coulee = a dry stream valley; a long steep-sided ravine
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