About one mile south on Washington State Highway 28 from where Horace Sykes might have taken a Kodachrome of Rock Island Dam head on at its face he instead found this perch above the Columbia where across the river the dam peeks around a curve and stage left – on the right – cliffs rise like stage curtains.  And Sykes also found a poseur for the foreground too. Here a rock stands above the river like a pulpit.