Category: Events

Register before March 10 for the 2022 All Star I Family Conference on Star Island. All Star 1 is a family conference that emphasizes intellectual, musical, and artistic pursuits with lots of time for intergenerational fun. We have many multi-generational families who return year after year, but always welcome new people to our one-week conference in July on Star Island in New Hampshire.

A day at All Star I starts with a polar bear dip (fortunately optional) and ends with evening chapel often followed by some late night music. In between, are the morning lecture on the week’s topic, morning and afternoon children’s programs, talks-on-the-rocks, art on the porch or in the barn, and plenty of time for chatting in the rocking chairs on the porch and quiet time on the rocks. However, while the day is full of activities, what and how much you chose to do is up to you.

The heart of our community are the children who are involved in morning and afternoon classes and the adults rejoice in watching the trust walks, the Children’s Stunt Show, and the infamous Great People Hunt. There are clenched teeth all around as the community comes together to see if the Junior Teens’ handmade boat will make it to Smuttynose and back!

The Theme for the Week this year is “Consideration, Respect, and Honesty . . . Creating and Nurturing Our Relationships and Communities In Today’s World.” Daniel Post Senning will be our guest, featured speaker.

Daniel Post Senning is the great-great-grandson of Emily Post and a co-author of Emily Post’s Etiquette, 19th edition and The Etiquette Advantage in Business, 3rd edition. He is also the author of Manners in a Digital World: Living Well Online. The Emily Post Institute Inc. is a fifth-generation family business that has been promoting etiquette based on consideration, respect, and honesty since Emily Post wrote her first book ETIQUETTE in 1922.

Dan specializes in relationship building in all areas of life, whether it is at home, at work, or online. He is a personable and dynamic presenter who takes pleasure in making the topic of etiquette useful and approachable to all audiences. Together with his cousin Lizzie Post, Dan answers 21st century etiquette questions on Awesome Etiquette, a podcast from American Public Media.

Dan conducts business etiquette seminars and delivers speeches across the country and around the world. Dan is an active spokesperson for the Institute, and has appeared on the Today Show, The History Channel and ESPN. He has contributed to The Huffington Post, and has been interviewed by publications including The New York Times, Slate, Esquire, GQ, Glamour, Time Magazine, and The Wall Street Journal.

With a focus on relationships and our communities, Dan’s talks will cover such topics as ‘thinking forward, the past evolution of social norms and what we might expect in the next century with climate change, global consciousness, and infinite connectivity’; ‘putting relationships first, balancing individual and community needs’; and ‘finding value in imperfection, a practical approach to holding high ideals’.