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We survived RAGBRAI! 10,000 visitors to our tiny little town was a bit overwhelming at first, but everything turned
out real good and we had a lot of fun! It was really neat meeting all the people who passed through and stopped by for
breakfast and a little entertainment. We all noticed how courteous the riders are. We also enjoyed looking at the many
different kinds of bikes and various costumes.
Please help us out! One of our guest books, with lots of signatures disappeared. If you were in town that day, please click the email link above and send us your name and where you are from so we can add it to our city museum. Thank you!
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We had a steady crowd stop by all morning. We had an old fashioned theme, photos by the covered wagon (Willard
Johnson let us borrow), also photos with a mule (brought by Kevin Waggoner). We had live entertainment (by Glen
Salgado) on a hay rack stage (borrowed from the Lehman's), the Eddyville dance studio (led by Jean Bell) performed in
front of the stage - that was very popular - a big group of girls from about age 3 to 16, the Eddyville Lumber Yard
donated lumber for the dance platform. The city hired Chris Cakes to prepare pancake breakfasts to offset the city
expense for the event, the Church here in town made a little profit serving breakfast, they were tickled, saying, now
they can afford to pay make thier next insurance payment. The Mason's let us borrow tables and chairs, the Fridley's
lent us a tent. And we fixed benches from hay bales borrowed from the Brad and Dan Lehman and Carl Wilz. The
Harrison Zippers 4-H club volunteered to run our ice cream treats from Schwann's stand. We sold a lot of event
t-shirts, made by Bev Lehman, we have a few more left. Sharon Hall in the post office kept busy. We had long lines
everywhere! A lot of people just stopped for photos by the covered wagon or mule or to watch the entertainment, use
rest rooms (provided by Event Sanitation) and fill water bottles (water set up prepared by Doug Richardson and Dave
Faybik). Our children prepared a big welcome banner, thanks to Pat Waggoner. While Jason Wilson and his pals fixed
up a whole line of signs leading to town. Steve Rexroth, Dan Lehman, Carl Wilz and Ben Smith worked to make a bike rack for parking. All our vendors that travel along with RAGBRAI said this was one of the better
pass through town stops this week. Vern Kelderman of the Sheriff's posse was here to patrol but had no problems. We
had a lot of volunteers come in from outside of town just to join in the fun. So many more people in town helped too, we
all really pulled together in offering a good welcome to all our guests. I know I must be forgetting to mention a lot of names. It was a lot of work but we had so much fun.
Watch for more photos & details on the other pages at this site - soon.
EVENT T-SHIRTS AVAILABLE !!
We will have a limited supply of T-shirts available for our event. They feature a covered wagon, bike and solider
surrounded by an outline of Iowa, dated July 24, 2003 and including our theme "Ride the Dragoon Trail into the past to
Kirkville". Adult sizes small through XXXL and children's sizes XS through large available.
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T-shirts are $10 each, add $5 for shipping and handling for a total of $15. Or send just $10 to reserve your shirt for pick up in Kirkville. To order your shirt send check or money order to: The City of Kirkville, Kirkville City Hall, 101 West Main Street, Kirkville, Iowa 52566. Please include your name, address, phone number, quantity of shirts
requested and sizes. Thank you!
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Continue to check here for additional historical facts and event updates. You can also read a little more Kirkville history in the autobiography of former Kirkville resident, Thomas Nixon Carver, Ph.D., LL.D., Litt.D. Professor of Political Economy Emeritus, Harvard University, 1949. Check our links page to find the autobiography and other tidbits.
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