JR Simplot…1909-2008

As a child I remember going to visit my Oma who lived just off of Bogus Basin Road at the base of the “highlands” in the Boise foothills.  I remember gawking at the big house with arched windows perched high on the hill with the BIG American flag waiving unfurled in the wind. 
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