Highmore in '76

The Highmore in '76 bid lost to the KC in '76 bid for the right to run the Central Zone 1976 Worldcon.

It is possible that the Highmore bid may not have been entirely serious inasmuch as it was bidding for Highmore, SD, population 800, the ancestral home of Boston fan Richard Harter. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highmore,_South_Dakota

Highmore is a ranching area, primarily and the local convention facilities included a ten-room motel. Some of the bid's advertising riffed on this. For example, the bid's logo was a cartoon by Karel Thole] of a sheep in military uniform: The Space Merino.

Members of the [[[Bid Committee]] included Tony Lewis.