Grand Coulee Dam the generators and also travel across the main dam span (otherwise closed to the public) as the formerly used glass elevator is indefinitely out of service. Folk singer Woody Guthrie wrote some of his most famous songs while working in the area in the 1940s. 1941 after a brief stay in Los Angeles, Guthrie and his family moved north to Oregon on the promise of a job. Gunther von Fritsch was directing a documentary about the Bonneville Power Administration's construction of the Grand Coulee Dam on the Columbia River, and needed a narrator. Alan Lomax had recommended Guthrie to narrate
Etzikom Coulee of at its origin east of Stirling Lake (to which it is connected by the Sluice Gate Channel) to an elevation of at its mouth at Pakowki Lake, over a length of more than . The coulee builds a canyon up to deep. Etzikom Coulee Etzikom Coulee is a coulee located in Southern Alberta, Canada. The waterway was formed as a glacial spillway channel at the end of the last ice age. The Etzikom Coulee begins northeast of the town of Stirling, and makes its way southeast of the Hamlet of Wrentham, after that it passes by the Hamlet of