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
Grand River (Michigan) conducted studies and explains resulted as it moves downstream. The expedition offered presentations, displays and demonstrations to communities along the river in an attempt to interact with the river, its tributaries, and its people throughout the watershed. One of its stops was in Portland, at the riverside Verlen Kruger Memorial pavilion. Kruger traveled over by paddle, was the 1990 and 2000 GRE Rivermaster, and counted the Grand as his favorite river. A 500-passenger dinner cruise ship modeled after a riverboat operates on the river in Lansing. Grand Rapids was built on the site of a mile long rapids on the