‘I'm just flabbergasted’: How a Texas woman’s hunting boot got a second life in Minnesota

‘I'm just flabbergasted’: How a Texas woman’s hunting boot got a second life in Minnesota

When work boots wear out, most of the time they head to the trash. For Red Wing Shoes, that’s not always the case. “We have a pair of Vasque boots that Martha Stewart wore,” said Clare Pavelka, corporate historian and archivist at Red Wing Shoes in Red Wing, Minn. “We also have boots in our collection of John Rukavina, who was an iron worker in Chicago, and he put the spire on the Sears Tower.” Over the decades, as Red Wing boots have evolved fr…