DAngelo, Anthony J. The Winchester Sun Wed., 99, 9101998 DAngelo, Mrs. Dora Dean The Winchester Sun Tues., 12311996 Dabb, Virgil The Winchester Sun Sat. The first page got too long, so here are the obituaries from October 2010 going forward If you know of any classmates we have lost that are not mentioned here. Grand Coulee Dam American Experience Official Site. Narrator It was called The Biggest Thing On Earth, a dam unlike any other, a wall of concrete that dared to tame the mighty Columbia. William Lang, Historian A river is the most dynamic thing in nature. Lewis And Clark Corps Of Discovery Torrent' title='Lewis And Clark Corps Of Discovery Torrent' />To block a river is the most audacious thing a human being can do. And when you block a river, you create a new future. Theres no going back. Narrator Its massive generators would power entire cities, and the water it captured would make the desert bloom. It came to embody the promise of America when many believed their countrys promises had all been broken. Blaine Harden, Writer It was this idea of manifest destiny Americans asserting their will on the natural resources of the country. And people really believed in that. Margaret OMara, Historian The Grand Coulee Dam starts a process of transforming the whole river system into a working landscape like never before. The New Deal was a radical idea. Roosevelt really redefined what the balance is between the individual good and the collective good. Narrator Its power would help win a war and unite a nation, but its construction would leave a region bitterly divided. Steven Hawley, Writer Who controls the water and the natural resources of the West I think there is an attitude amongst the managers of the river and they simply said, we stole these rivers fair and square and were not giving them back, not without a fight. D. C. Jackson, Historian Its supposed to be for everyone. Its easy to say that its a public resource. But everyone has a different vision of what they think that public interest should be. Narrator For some, the Grand Coulee Dam would be an engine of growth and prosperity, for others it would come to symbolize heartbreak and betrayal. In the end, it was an out sized statement of American power and prestige, a monument to noble ideals and unintended consequences. Richard White, Historian There is a way in which people hate the dams and are proud of the dams, ways in which people imagine a Columbia running free, but they could not live without the Columbias electricity. That river is our most profound dreams for what we can become and our deepest regrets about what weve done. Weve woven them together and were never going to be able to take them apart. Narrator On a blisteringly hot day in July of 1. QYaL2QiHCJNr90FgxgieGUuo.jpg' alt='Lewis And Clark Corps Of Discovery Torrent' title='Lewis And Clark Corps Of Discovery Torrent' />Model T Ford drove down 1st Avenue in the dusty little town of Ephrata, Washington, and pulled up in front of the offices of a local lawyer named William Clapp. On the side of the car, a small sign read The Wenatchee Daily World. The Worlds Greatest Daily Paper. The car belonged to a restless 4. Rufus Woods. A part time school teacher, failed attorney, and veteran of the Alaskan gold rush, he had finally found his calling at the helm of eastern Washingtons first daily newspaper, founded in 1. Woods had turned the failing paper around with a mix of shrewd business acumen, a strong regional focus, and a dash of showmanship. Early subscribers received a free set of dishes. Others, free knives. Papers were sometimes delivered on horseback and in one stunt, Woods painted a pony of his with zebra stripes for extra publicity. Three years after buying the paper, Woods had boosted circulation by 6. Chris Brown Exclusive The Forever Edition Lyrics. Paul C. Pitzer, Historian Rufus Woods had a vision. His vision was to create something of what he called north central Washington. He was in competition with Spokane on the east side of the state and of course Seattle on the west side of the state. He used to travel around looking for stories. Narrator The town fathers of Ephrata gathered in Clapps office that day were worried about the future of their region, tired of it being seen as a desolate backwater, without big industries or farms. Then Billy started talking about building a dam on the Columbia River at the mouth of what was called the Grand Coulee. Blaine Harden, Writer Grand Coulee is basically a big ditch, a really big ditch. And the thought was that you could divert water out of the river up into that big ditch and then using gravity, feed that water down across the country where the soil was great and all it needed was water. William Lang, Historian He sells it as a great location because of this wonderful landscape that has been completely scoured out by these floods that ravaged the area thousands of years ago. And so it creates these huge dry coulees and he sees the ability to make these into reservoirs to capture the water from a dammed Columbia. And this one spot makes it possible to dam the river up for miles and miles and miles. Narrator The plan the boosters hatched called for water to be pumped out of the lake formed by the dam, up over the rim of the rivers canyon, and into the Grand Coulee, which would become a new, huge reservoir. From there, the water could be fed by gravity down a sloping plateau to the south, irrigating more than 1,0. Wilfred Woods, Son of Rufus Woods In 1. Billy Clapp told my father about this great idea of a Grand Coulee Dam. Well, it was really in 1. Narrator Rufus Woods hometown of Wenatchee was a modest agricultural community that had recently diverted some water from the river for its emerging apple industry, but it yearned to truly harness the Columbia and put it to work. It was a vision as old as the river itself. Lying in the rain shadow created by the Cascade Mountains to the West, which trapped the moisture rich winds coming in from the Pacific, eastern Washington contains some of the driest land in an already parched American West. It is a desert pure and simple, one 1. Coursing through this barren and mostly uninhabited landscape, for 1,2. Columbia River. Draining a watershed of more than 2. Canadian Rockies, the rivers cold, crystalline waters flowed south into the United States, then curved in a huge bend around what was known as the Columbia Basin, before turning west and cutting through the Cascades to the Pacific. For a millennium, the Columbia had been a meeting place for a diverse community of people, all drawn to the rivers primordial energy. Margaret OMara, Historian The Columbia was a place of work. It was the economic lifeline of a region. You have native fisheries, you have the river itself being a source of food, a hub of the trade routes, the way that these different native communities communicated with one another and traded with one another. Its this place of astounding size, of beauty, and of endless resources. Narrator After running some of the Columbias terrifying rapids, the American explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark responded with a mixture of awe and hatred for the river, calling it incredible, inconceivable, and horrid. More welcoming were the Native people the Yakima, Walla Walla, and Umatilla who sustained themselves on the astonishing annual runs of salmon, relying on the fish for their diet, their trade, and as inspiration for their culture. Richard White, Historian Its a place of incredible abundance which links both the land and the sea and which really for Indian peoples is ideal because the salmon will always return every year at the same time. Its a system that Indian peoples will live on for centuries. Narrator Born in the gravel beds and clear water of the upper Columbia, the young salmon rode the swift moving currents to the Pacific Ocean, there to grow for five years, until being called back to the place of their birth, this time to reproduce and die.