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Paul R.
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Loc: Northern Illinois
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Re: How to Make Your Star Party Almost Heaven
08/06/08 02:19 PM
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Nice article Rod,
I agree with the majority of all the points you've made. In the midwest we once had an awesome star party called Astrofest. Although Astrofest still exsists, its feeble remnant of its once great stature. At the zenith of its being, it drew nearly 1000 attendees and an average 20-25 vendors, 3 of which were major players in the industry. Unfortunately, I believe greed and ego got the best of all people involved with running the event, and as a result the astro-community at large ended up being the biggest victims.
The Prairie Skies star party still runs every year at the old charming Astrofest location, and is still allot of fun. But, it is no where near the kind of event the original Astrofest once was.
Truly sad indeed.
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