I just spent part of the past week at Norris Dam in Tennessee and the progress thing was very close to us there. Karen and I discussed the role of progress and what it meant to that region of this country. Norris was the first dam built by the TVA, finished in 1936.

The CCC and the TVA provided thousands of jobs during the depression and the power provided changed much of the Appalachian region in one of those "mixed blessing" things that I have a lot of trouble sorting out. I still don't know and probably never will know how I feel about it.

Spaw