Hmm.

But there were some influential people in Portland who, uh, had always dreamed of a ski lodge on Mount Hood.

These businessmen convinced somehow the government that one of their projects to put people to work should be a ski lodge.

And of course, the WPA, the government didn't have a bucket of money for a ski lodge.

But what was pretty well-funded, and is very cool, and is a huge aspect of Timberline is the Federal Arts budget.

So one of the core missions of the Timberline project was to make sure that craftspeople of the time were inspiring younger people.

So they used talented craftspeople to teach and have apprentices to do things like blacksmithing or wood carving or textile work with fabrics or even painting and glasswork.

Mm-hmm.