The first visitors to enter the renovated Hoover Dam Visitor Center on Tuesday morning made their way slowly through the building’s new exhibit, exploring each facet of life that made the dam’s construction possible. For the people behind the project, that meant illustrating both the dangers people put themselves through during the Great Depression and the typically ignored spouses who made life in Boulder City possible. Terri Saumier, a facility services manager under the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, said the $15 million project had a focus on telling the dam’s “story through the people who lived it” from Day 1. … U.S. Rep. Dina Titus, D-Nev., and Boulder City Mayor Joe Hardy joined reclamation officials for the visitor center’s ribbon-cutting ceremony, which also coincided with the bureau’s 123rd anniversary. 

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