It really wasn’t a “hill,” per se.  But, back to that later.  It was the slope just south of the old Westmar gymnasium. Today, it’s where folks sit and enjoy a hearty dinner, program or wedding dance in the lower meeting room of the  Le Mars Convention Center.  For neighborhood kids back in the mid 20th Century it was a great place to slide down in a cardboard box.  It was especially fun since there was usually some action on the practice field it surrounded.  Always something to watch:  marching band practice, intra-murals, assorted college kid stuff or Bernie De Boer and the Hershbergers flying model airplanes.  The planes back then were controlled by attached strings, not the radio controlled stuff of today.  Occasionally one would get wrapped around one of the large wooden light poles – balsa wood and two feet of creosote soaked pine don’t mix very well.  It provided momentary excitement, but usually was the end of flying for the immediate future. In the Fall it was all about Westmar football and in the 1960’s that meant targeting another Tri-State Football Crown. contact LeMars.NET © LeMars.NET