http://karlwhitney.com/dumbriffs Karl Whitney's blog Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:11:51 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://karlwhitney.com/dumbriffs/2008/09/columbia-river-blues/ http://karlwhitney.com/dumbriffs/2008/09/columbia-river-blues/#comments Mon, 08 Sep 2008 15:02:13 +0000 Karl Whitney http://www.karlwhitney.com/dumbriffs/?p=542 Jonathan Raban’s recent Granta article about the American Northwest and the wilderness is available on his site here. It traces the impact white America has had on the essentially wild character of the landscape, including the development of the Grand Coulee Dam, the Richland Nuclear Facility and the vineyards of Eastern Washington State.

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