March 23, 2009 in Features

The Slice: Dam impressive? Not for this guy

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With the warm-weather travel season just over the horizon, The Slice thought it would be interesting to interview the only guy in the Spokane area who has never taken his family over to see the Grand Coulee Dam.

A transcript of that exchange follows.

To protect him from harassing calls from regional tourism officials, he will not be identified by name. In any case, you won’t believe what he had to say.

Q: So why haven’t you gone over to check out the dam?

A: You know, it just never seemed all that interesting to me.

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  Scott Hunter on March 23 at 10:59 a.m.

  Paul,
  I notice you didn't even get around to mentioning the laser light show that spans about a mile across the river on the dam every night in the summer.

  In your interview subject's defense ('fess up, was it really you talking to yourself?), I think he's in the majority; most Spokane folks have no idea about the colossal monument to our heritage in their backyard, one that is a very concrete example of what can happen when a nation responds to desperate economic times with Keynesian measures.

  Hope you all show up at some point this summer to be awed by it, learn about it and to consider what we can all do as a nation when we pull together — even if out of desperation.

  Scott Hunter
  Grand Coulee Dam Area Chamber of Commerce

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