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Morning Edition Returns: Then We Get a Giant Futon...

Published January 13, 2003 at 7:00 PM HST

Soap Lake, Washington, seeks a tourist attraction, and some townsfolk think a big blast from the psychedelic past might be just the thing to propel the town into the future.

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