BOO 2024 - Looking at November 1st, 2nd & 3rd
BOO 2024 theme TBD at a later date
Check the "Family Archives" button below for pics from this years Garden Party - Small but FUN!
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BOO- What is it?
Summary from Cindy (all hearsay and opinion); See more detailed accounts here: Schistory; How to; Make it happen
BOO stands for Base Of Operations, a term coined by Bernie Reller long after the first gathering. The Reality Prevention Patrol arranged the gatherings prior to the naming (the best guess is around 1976) at Scheck Garden Apartments in Gainesville, Florida. People with minimal funds gathered together to share what they had and to share a good time. Sharing the good time is the main attraction for most. We tend to fall in love with the whole idea and look forward to it every year. Many people and places have hosted BOO with less than 100 to over 500 BOO'dlers joining the fun over the years.
The gathering itself is a living entity that grows and changes, expands and contracts, has good days and bad days and goes though cycles.
BOO has a tendency to blow your mind – through the people you meet, what you see, what you do and who you are while you’re there.