Couple to bid farewell to handcrafted Concord mud wagon during Rupert parade

Laurie Welch
Jun 22, 2020
Jun 22, 2020
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Donating a mud wagon — Mike Christensen loads a mud wagon stagecoach on a trailer to be delivered to the Minidoka County Historical Society Museum on Friday at their home in Rupert.
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PAUL— The amount of time, talent, money and attention to detail that goes into building and restoring wagons, buggies and carriages is never fully repaid with dollars.

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