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This weekend is the West Point Sweet Corn Festival! Sadly, I won’t be able to get back for it, but the Sweet Corn Festival holds a lot of fond memories, not just for my family but for just about everyone in the area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

You can read all about the history of the festival here<\/a>, along with the schedule of events and so forth. I won’t recount any of that here. The festival started before my time, in 1952. I don’t know how quickly it caught on with my family, but by the time I was a kid in the 1960’s it was a big event for us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It was before my time…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Before Cousin Dan’s time too!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Also before cousin Kris’s time.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

All the cousins from Chicago and Oklahoma would come to West Point for the Festival, and we’d all convene at Grandma’s. She lived on Avenue C, west of the church, so it was an easy walk to the square, even for the littler kids like me. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was always a good time. We kids pretty much ran free as long as we didn’t do anything too stupid. We had to tell a grownup if we were going uptown, but otherwise we kept ourselves amused. Amazingly, we all survived somehow!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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An early example of photobombing!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Some of the cousins would stay at Mom’s in Fort Madison, and the balance would stay with Grandma in West Point. Neither house had air conditioning, and I’m still amazed that anyone would want to visit in August. The siren call of free sweet corn must be stronger than I thought!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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