Today made a little more progress.
I soldered on some male pins to the breakout stuff on the bottom of the Intel BO board. I then jumpered the SPI pins over to a breakboard, I also plugged in an Adafruit 8 pin level shifter into the breadboard. and I hooked up my Adafruit 2.8" TFT display to the other side of the the voltage level shifters. After fixing the Pin mux table and the like, I now have the graphic test program compiling using Arduino IDE and running on the display. The display hangs some of the time,but my guess is my jumpers are not always giving the greatest contacts...
I probably can not make the touch part of this display work (without more external stuff) as I believe it needs two analog inputs... Or alternatively if the processor itself has touch support (like the teensy ). But just happy got this part up and going.
Kurt