Following intermission, Hugh Frisbee did an act with plates and juggling more common objects. Perhaps it is worth mentioning that Hugh was a professional juggler before most of us were born, and was a regular at IJA conventions in the 1950s. 

Jimmy Shafer did a funny story with three young kids holding some interesting origami that was used to tell a story. 

Robert Nelson performed a poem on "The Day Diana Died." 

Iman started by playing with a long rose, moved into straw hat juggling and finished by clowning in, out, around, and thru a folding deck chair in a funny colorful act. 

Tim Kelly is a footbagger, and that was his act... including doing two beanbags with one foot, first with the right, then with the left. 

Ben Schoenberg had a funny act with juggling patters with 1 to 10 bean bags. 

Nica Lorber did a glow stick Poi ball routine fol- lowed by fire club swinging with Mark Bunnell and Heartlife passing fire clubs in the background. 

The Saturday night Lodi Public Show had a record crowd of over 250 people. Since this almost overflowed the theater something different may be done next year. 

After the show Sven Jorgensen and Robert "Butterfly" Nelson gave a talk on what one needs to know besides juggling to be a successful busker on the streets. Topics covered site location, protection from thieves, how to work with cops, how to draw a crowd, how to take care of your body and voice, what countries and cities are good for busking, and what drives people to try to make a living this way. 

Later that evening JAG organized a game of combat. 

Trains kept some from sleeping right thru the night. 

Sunday morning got off to a slow start. The 10 a.m. communal breakfast never really got started. 

Adam and friends got out a Fred Garbo-type inflated cube to play with. Soon afterwards some younger kids had brought out the pyramid (both were licensed from FG and produced/sold by Sportime, along with a sphere). They were fun to watch bouncing, flying, and rolling in the sun, over the grass and under the trees. 

Sunday had almost as many classes as Saturday. Topics included: How People Learn Tricks (Todd Strong), Advanced Club Passing (Steve Healy & Steve Gerdes), Dice Stacking (Todd Strong), Advanced 3 Ball Workshop/Demo (Adam Adler), Two Diabolos (Steve Healy), Numbers Juggling (Todd Strong), Multiplex Tricks (Bill Coad), the Three Stranded Cascade (Katje Sabin-Newmiller), Advanced Devil Sticks (Seth Golub), Club Swinging (Monica Buck), Five Ball Patterns (Sven Jorgensen), Four Club Juggling (Nathan Hoover), More Bullwhiping (Andrew Conway), Unicycling and Trick Cycling (John Foss), and more. 

A young boy who didn't want to juggle brought his chess set and proceeded to win almost every game. One of his few loses was the second game that he played with much older young man. When the older young man won he jumped up and started doing a war victor dance until his friend's mother pointed out that that was a bit extreme for beating a six-year-old. 

No joint meal was planned for Sunday evening, but a mass pizza order was made. Most people joined in. 

While most were juggling, a four-foot refractor was set up in the parking lot again for observing the moon, Jupiter, and Saturn. The jugglers stargazed for two hours before everyone had their fill. Craters and mountains on the moon, four moons of Jupiter as well as a number of bands, the rings of Saturn and its moon Titan. That the Cassini probe to Saturn and Titan was due to be launched the next day made this all the more interesting. 

A balloon tier was giving some demos when a young girl asked him for a hat. He offered to make her one is she would wear it for half an hour or more. Upon her agreement, he went to work. Forty- five minutes and many dozens of balloons later a wondrous creation of straight, tied, curled, and woven balloons graced her head. She wore it the rest of that evening and then the next day was seen unicycling all over the area with this four-foot high, three-foot wide fountain of balloons. 

Sunday night Renegade was to have started at 11 p.m. but due to cold (or people needing to drive home) the time was moved up to 9:30 p.m. 

Keith Everslage was the MC. 

An act called "Stilts" did some water glasses in a billiard triangle balancing followed by doing an Indian hoop trick on a bolo. 2 

Katje and Monica of the DaMento Jugglers showed how to juggle hair. 

Lance Coombes performed a contact juggling routine with one to three crystal balls that at times reminded one of Michael Moschen and at times were very different. 

Mary Evanhoff started off by saying that she was tired and cold, but that her act was neat if she could just bring it off. She started into a handstand and failed. Saying that she had too many clothes on she took off her jacket and pants. She tried again, and failed. So she took off some more clothes and tried again and failed. Finally she did her handstand and ran off stage fully dressed, carrying about 150% of her body volume in clothes she had taken off. 

Andrew Conway did a diabolo routine, and spun it inside a juggling ring. 

Jimmy Shafer did a whistling and dancing bit. 

Keith Erickson had a wonderful dark night act with flaming poi balls. But since Mary's act had forced everyone after her to remove an article of clothing upon a failure, Keith had little protection from errors, and his body showed it when the lights came back on. Overall, I felt his was the best juggling act of this Renegade, while Mary had the funniest. 

Sunday morning had a count of some 84 tents, Monday mornings count was down to a couple of dozen. People woke up slowly but cheerfully. A few last classes, including bullwhips and Indian Hoops, were held as people folded their tents and packed up. A much slower, but still nice day. 

Lodi financials from Andrew Conway for 1997 were: The Saturday night BBQ broke even (about 190 meals, including comps), the Sunday night pizza incurred a small loss. The show made $1,550 (about 250 tickets, including comps). About $200 of that goes to cover festival expenses including the new portable shower. $500 is donated to the San Joaquin County department of parks and rec, $200 will go to a reserve fund against future festival expenses, and the remainder (about $450) will be split between the San Joaquin County Women's Shelter and Oxfam America. The reserve fund will stand at $750 after this.