Subject: florida star breaking news again
Date: Dec 23, 2000 @ 03:25
Author: michael donner (michael donner <m@...>)
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our imminent inaugural visit & commemorative buoy drop
at the 5 point star junction of okeechobee with palm beach & martin
counties etc
of recent electoral notoriety
were much promoted & advanced again today
when an envelope arrived in the mail
bearing the unexpected name & office of florida secretary of state
katherine harris
i kid you not
& containing the news that this 5 star point is now 37 & a half years old
having been enacted into being by a statute filed in that office on 29 may
1963 & having become legally effective on 1 july 1963
albeit without the approval of the governor

& i should probably add that this is the first really significant break we
have had in researching the point during several years now


so the most obvious consequence of the news is the realization that when we
become perhaps the first visitors & markers of the point in both space &
time next month at the middle of the greatest nongreat lake in america
we will coincidentally also be celebrating perhaps the first semidiamond
jubilee &or the first sesquisilver jubilee ever celebrated over anything


but more to the point
todays news means we now have a time frame of reference for searching
further into local & state news archives for any contemporaneous
information or other details that could also stand to enhance our visit


all the data gathered thus far about this the only known legal quintipoint
in the world make it appear to have been a rather arbitrary & whimsical
invention of the florida legislature based in pure expediency & political
compromise

no other direct evidence besides the originating statute has yet been found
anywhere to indicate any interest in the point per se other than our own
fascination with it
nor of any other known attempt at visiting or marking it




this buoying news also recalls to mind the other good news recently
received of the official macedonian buoy emplacement
soon to be performed by mile
when reported by him in message 825

another hearty salute & good wishes to you sir
if you are reading this as hoped

& how marvelous it would be if we could somehow synchronize or otherwise
coordinate our separate installations
& if they might in this way become fraternity buoys or good old buoys
again likely the first such in history also


our prebooked & most probable okeechobee inaugural date is the afternoon of
january 20
weather permitting etc in these otherwise dangerous waters
or in other words hopefully 4 weeks from tomorrow
which i mention again pointedly now mile just in case the macedonian buoy
will be ready & you happen to be free & within range of lake prespa on that
day
or perhaps any better time for you within the ensuing few weeks


of course it wouldnt really matter whether we actually succeeded in
perfectly coordinating this admittedly strange maneuver
but if any such ceremonial gesture should have appeal for you
please let us know & include us in somehow
& we will certainly keep you in our thoughts too in any event

sincerely
m