About Larry

I was a Boy Scout growing up, and when I was 12, I spent a week at Scout Camp.  I was at a Waterfront orientation on the first day, then headed back to my tent.  I heard my name being called on the PA system to report back to the Waterfront.  When I did, the Scout Leader there asked me where my buddy tag was. 

“Probably over on that board”, I replied.  “Get it and bring it here” he instructed me.  When I handed my buddy tag to him, he wrote on the back, “R.I.P.”  Apparently, I left my buddy tag on the wrong area of the board, which was a signal to the leadership that I had drowned.

Not responsible enough to swim, I headed to the Trading Post thinking about how I was going to fill that daily 3-hour hole in my schedule for the coming week.  There on a shelf was a boomerang kit.  “Hmmm… I didn’t know these were a real thing, but someone thinks a 12-year-old Boy Scout is smart enough to make one”.  I bought it for $2.

There were Jr. Scout Leaders at the picnic tables outside the Trading Post showing kids how to make boomerangs.  File here, sand there, paint it and go give it a try.  The first time I threw it my boomerang came back to me close enough to make me want to make another… and another… and another.  I was hooked.

Over the past 50 years I’ve been many things: husband, father, engineer, entrepreneur, army veteran, Christian brother.  But to a select group of people I’ve met recently, I’m know as “The Boomerang Guy”.