Benediction to merging art forms

Contrary to my phone’s wayfinding, the turn to the Hungry Horse Dam Visitor Center from Kalispell is the second for the dam, not the first. 

My son and I aimed to attend a talk called “Photopoetry: Montana and Beyond,” but we ended up at the base of the 1953 dam that took 3 million cubic yards of concrete to construct. Looking up at the awesome structure gave me the shivers as I had just read Butch Larcombe’s “Montana Disasters” about the partial failure of the Fort Peck Dam in 1938.