LOAS I Conferee List Updated 7/23/2010
LOAS II Conferee List Updated: 7/23/2010

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.

In addition to permanently starting one week earlier than in the past, Life on a Star I and II now allow families who are familiar with Star Island (Old Shoalers) to bring non-family members who are friends of their children.  Parents who do so are responsible to these child guests just as they are for their own children.  

If you have questions about this new policy, email loasregistrar@gmail.com

To REGISTER or help with REGISTRATION, Click Here!!

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.

The 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).