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 Our Life On A Star
(LOAS) conferences are associated with the Star
Island Corporation.
We hold two conferences each summer during August. Star
Island is part of the Isles of Shoals which are located 10 miles off the
coast of Portsmouth, NH.
Life On A Star I &
II Conferences are family oriented and we invite you and your family to
join us to spend a relaxing week enjoying the magic of Star Island. We
welcome people of all ages, lifestyles and beliefs.  We offer a variety
of activities each day along with time to sit back, relax, spend time
with new and old friends and renew your spiritual side.
If you have never been
to Star Island or to LOAS, we invite you to come spend a week with us.
It is our policy to have new shoalers make up at least 15% of our
conferences each year.
Our conferences are
seven days long, Saturday afternoon to the following Saturday morning.
Our chairs arrange for a Theme Speaker for the week, Minister of the
Week, workshop leaders and youth leaders.
 Our children's
program is usually held from 9:15 am to 11:45 am and 2:00 pm to 3:30 pm
every day. We offer six different age ranges for the children's program,
with two adults leading each group. In addition, we have a youth
coordinator and a floater who help the youth leaders throughout the
week. Parents volunteer on an occasional basis, for example, helping to
row to the neighboring island and helping out during children's social
hour.
Mornings begin
with brave souls becoming polar bears for a dip into the clear Atlantic
Ocean.  Our Minister of the Week leads a morning chapel after
breakfast and before the theme talk. The Theme speaker has a
presentation each morning for about one hour. After the theme talk, we
offer a selection of workshops to choose from that last for about 1 and
1/2 hours. In the afternoon, we again offer a selection of workshops
while the children's program is in session. Around 8:00 pm every evening
there is some type of organized event: talent show, musicale, Pelican
(hotel staff) talent show, etc. Every evening around 10:00 pm, we hold a
candle-lit chapel service in the stone chapel that is lead by members of
the conference. For the night owls, we usually have a Starlite Cafe,
which is a coffee house type of gathering that goes until the wee hours
of the morning.
T he hotel has a
snack bar where you can purchase lobster rolls, fraps, lime rickies
along with traditional treats. During the week there are various
activities that lend themselves perfectly to an island environment. One
of the all-time favorites is a softball game between the conferees and
the staff, with the only known left field that is located in a cemetery
and fly balls there are ground rule doubles! See the pictures HERE.
You may attend
as much or as little of the planned activities as you wish. Some people
try to fit as much in as they possibly can and others prefer to sit in
rocking chairs on the hotel porch or on the rocks and just relax.
 Our conference
is run by chair's who are selected each summer for the following year.
We have a coordinating committee that oversees the conference between
meetings of past chairs, which is held every fall. We have an elected
treasurer and an elected registrar, along with elected provisioners who
are responsible for acquiring our supplies for "social hour"
which is held every evening before supper.
Please visit
our pages for LOAS I
and LOAS II for
specific information pertaining to our conferences this summer.
If
there are rooms available during the conference, conferees are allowed
to invite people to spend one to three nights on Star Island as
conference guests.
If
you would like to have an overnight guest, you need to check with the
LOAS registrar to make certain that space is available.
The
overnight rate for guests (per night) is:
Adult 2010
overnight rates (per person): $140/triple, $148/double, $191/single,
$166/motel double, $265/motel single
Children
overnight rates (per person): age <2 $29, age 2-5 $68, age 6-11 $89
and age 12-17 $115
Your overnight
guests must make their own boat reservations to and from the island on
the Uncle Oscar. If your guest fails to make a return reservation and is
unable to leave Star Island, due to the boats being full, your guest
will need to pay for the additional night on Star Island (and there is
no guarantee that they will have a room).
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