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Don and Rose Bragg's 50th wedding anniversary party

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Hard to believe these two "kids" were joined in Holy Matrimony a mere 50 years ago!  My parents celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary recently in a party held at a local picnic area by their friends and family...  More on this later, though... We had helped plan this party for months with my siblings, and Hope and I--well, mainly Hope--organized the food part of this effort.  That meant we came up about a week early to start putting various elements together.  This trip also doubled as our northern visit this summer, so there were plenty of other distractions.  One of our first stops on the way up was the Hoard Historical Museum in Ft. Atkinson, Wisconsin (http://hoardmuseum.org/).  This museum features an ancestor of ours (by marriage into the Bragg family) named William D. Hoard and his extended family, as well as serving as the "National Dairy Shrine" as Stephen and Beth show (with varying degrees of enthusiasm): In the picture below, Be...