Open Road

Rolling highways with ups and downs, fields on either side, there is not much to beat this kind of driving, so different from what most of us do in our day to day lives. We are on our way via this highway to town of Kettle Falls, an outpost of apple orchards with a railroad to move them on, although no more of that now.

The falls for which it is named are no more either. When the Grand Coulee Damn went in, providing water and power to vast dry land, bringing farmers and towns - that damning also ended the salmon runs and buried the falls deep beneath now placid water. All of these factors and more killed the manner in which life had been lived by native people for 9000 years in this area. We all know change is a constant, but --------.