Thursday, June 10, 2021
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Beverages at the Family Bean means a free
mini-donut for everyone; is that why three
sheriff deputies were hanging out there? |
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| View NE: the falls are gone of what would have been a 3.5 mile wide, 400 feet high cataract (KSS) |
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| View SW |
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| Tamiko at a viewpoint at Dry Falls (KSS) |
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Looking back at the Visitor Center with its panoramic windows,
which would have been fantastic if the place was open! |
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We traveled along glacial blue Banks Lake,
with Steamboat Rock in view |
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Great Coulee Dam (1933-1942), the second largest concrete dam in the world
after the Three Gorges Dam in China (KSS) |
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| Lunch was from Edna's Drive-In in Davenport, WA |
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| The upright column on the left may be the "pitcher" |
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| The hollowed-out rock may be the "bowl" (KSS) |
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| Looking up the Spokane River at the suspension bridge |
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| Now we will cross the suspension bridge (KSS) |
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| Suspension Bridge (1941, by Civilian Conservation Corps/CCC) |
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Huntington Park in Spokane, WA was once the
gathering area for local tribes; now the Skyride
gondolas take you over the Lower Falls (KSS) |
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| Looking at the top edge of the Lower Falls weir |
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| See how the gondolas give you a view of the Lower Falls |
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Salmon Chief (2014, by Virgil “Smoker” Marchand)
raises a salmon in blessing |
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| A tribe member stakes the salmon for smoking |
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| A tribe woman hangs strips of salmon for drying (KSS) |
Now for the
Sculptures in Riverfront Park in Spokane, WA.
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The Joy of Running Together (1985, by David Govedare);
the runners all have scapulae/shoulder blades (KSS) |
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| The runners include all types and ages |
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Rotary Riverfront Fountain (2005, by
Harold Balazs and Bob Perron) (KSS) |
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Garbage-eating Goat (1974, by Paula Turnbull) will
"eat" (suck in by vacuum) any trash that will fit in his mouth |
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Big Red Wagon (1989, by Ken Spiering) is
a children's playground slide |
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| You Elegant Fowl (2014, by Bill and Karma Simmons) (KSS) |
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| Dance of the Redband (2015, by Ken Spiering) |
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| Part of Current Event (2006, by Ken Spiering) |
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| Part of Tapestry Fence (2005, by Bill & Karma Simmons) (KSS) |
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From This Earth (1994, by Glenn Emmons)
depicts a hard-rock miner |
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Part of The Call and the Challenge (1986,
by Ken Spiering, for the Sacred Heart
Medical Center Centennial) (KSS) |
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| The rest of The Call and the Challenge |
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Michael P Anderson Memorial (2006,
by Dorothy Fowler) was an African-
American raised in Cheney, WA, and who
lost his life in the Space Shuttle
Columbia Disaster in 2003 |
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Blue benches below and wooden benches
above (and Tamiko) (KSS) |
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Great Northern Clocktower is what is left
of the Great Northern Railroad Station (1902) |
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| Centennial (1978, by Harold Balazs) |
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Vietnam Veterans Memorial (1984,
by Deborah Copenhaver) |
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View of the Spokane River rapids from the Clinkerdagger
restaurant where we had dinner |
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Replica (by Don Trail) of Imazu Lighthouse
near sister-city Nishinomiya, Japan |
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| Historic cistern from sister-city Cagli, Italy |
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Sculpture of an Irish Harp (2018,
by Paula Turnbull) |
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Sculpture (by Melissa Cole) of an
Oncorhynchus nerka/Kokanee Salmon |
Next: Lewis & Clark Trip Day 35.
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