New Year in Idaho’s past 1) Genesee, Idaho - 1918 2) New Year’s Eve 1943 - Kooskia Japanese National Internment Camp - U of I Collections 3) New Year’s Eve Dinner 1943 - Kooskia, Idaho Japanese National Internment Camp - U of I Collections 4) Christmas at Minidoka, Idaho Japanese American Incarceration Camp - 1943 - Friends of Minidoka Collections 5) “On the morning of December 31, 1942, 10,000 pounds of mochigome arrived at Minidoka for New Year’s festivities. Mochigome is a sweet rice used to