  We report on new WFPC2 observations of the globular cluster NGC 288, focusing
our attention on peculiar stars. A very pronounced binary sequence, paralleling
the ordinary Main Sequence (MS) is clearly observed in the Color Magnitude
Diagram (CMD) and a huge relative fraction of Blue Straggler Stars is measured.
The dataset offers the opportunity of studying the evolution of a large
population of binaries (and binary evolution by-products) in a low density
environment, where the evolution of such systems is not dominated by collisions
and encounters. Three (very) Extreme Horizontal Branch Stars have been found,
all lying outside of the cluster core.
