As part of the countdown to next year’s America250 celebration, Idaho State Treasurer Julie Ellsworth is reinventing the Spuddy Buddy mascot as different historical figures.

For example, Ellsworth, who is a member of the advisory committee planning Idaho’s component of the America250 celebration, unveiled a “Spudjamin Franklin” mascot.

Idahoans can see the new patriotic mascot Aug. 2 at the American Falls Day and again Aug. 9 at the Chubbuck Days, according to a press release issued Tuesday by the Idaho State Treasurer’s Office.

“Spudjamin Franklin” is one of several Revolutionary Spuddy Buddies that Ellsworth says she reimagined from the more classic Spuddy Buddy mascot deployed by the Idaho Potato Commission.

During the events in American Falls and Chubbuck next month, members of the

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