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Promoting the Columbia Basin Project The community got together and built this guy a house and a barn and we leveled the land and set the sprinkler systems on it. We did that all in a 24-hour period as a community. Ed Ebel Volunteers work through night under floodlights to construct "Farm-In-A-Day," May 29, 1952. Photo a gift from Mrs. Earl Amick to the Adam East Museum and Art Center, Moses Lake. When the Columbia Basin Project opened, communities throughout the area held promotional festivals. Moses Lake boosters created "Farm-In-A-Day" to publicize irrigation possibilities. Hundreds of volunteers joined together to build, in a twenty-four hour period, an entire farm, complete with home, furnishings, outbuildings, and newly-planted crops. The Veterans of Foreign Wars conducted a search for the "most worthy veteran" of either World War II or Korea. He and his family would be provided with the complete farm and farmhouse. Donald Dunn, a thirty-year-old World War II veteran and Kansas farmer flooded out by the Cottonwood River, was chosen to receive the eighty-acre farm.   forward Table of Contents <> Photo Archive Oral History Archive <> Documents Archive <> Bibliography To Top of Moses Lake Exhibit