Not the day-long dustings of today, but the genuine burials of long ago, with snow measured in feet instead of inches and massive icicles hanging from the eaves of houses. The camera finds a little girl standing alone in an open, snow-covered field with a wall of mountains looming in the distance. Her tiny, dark figure waddles through the deep snow as she molds a snowball to add to the beginnings of a snowman. The ill-fated project to extend the Northshore Road after the building of Fontana Dam attracted many locals who came to the construction site for scenic views, hikes and picnics. Someone filmed persons standing at a North Shore overlook at sunset and cropped their feet.
Sky forms the only background and the effect is one of walking in air.
The figures stand silhouetted against the horizon like characters in a Dorothea Lange dust bowl photograph. Cut to Rock Creek Baptist Church, a casualty of the Road to Nowhere. The state had acquired the church property and the congregation had to build a new facility. One of the videos begins with footage of workers proudly constructing a new roof on a building. It would be the new Rock Creek Church, which reoccurs in footage throughout the videos as a reaffirmation of a job well done.