You're Invited - 2024 Yankee Gathering

The Yankee Magic Collector

        April 14, 2024

You're Invited - 2024 Yankee Gathering
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You’re Invited!
Featuring 2024 Guest of Honor Robert Olson
Robert A. Olson has quietly been contributing to magic history through his efforts as a performer, creator, and collector, but perhaps his most significant contribution is as “keeper of the flame” for the first American-born professional magician of note Richard Potter. 

This November, the New England Magic Collectors Association is paying tribute to his life-long list of achievements.  Please join us in honoring this unique individual by attending the Yankee Gathering 2024 with Robert Olson as our Guest of Honor.
Conjuring the Spirit World: Art, Magic and Mediums
Join us to explore the intersection of magic and spiritualism at the Peabody Essex Museum. 

Explore the essential role art and objects played for mediums and magicians “communicating” with the dead during the 19th- and 20th-century Spiritualism movement in the U.S. and Europe — a time when people actively debated and wondered, “can spirits return?”

See paintings, posters, photographs, stage apparatuses, costumes, film, publications and other objects that will transport visitors to the age of Harry Houdini, Margery the Medium, Howard Thurston, and the Fox Sisters, among others. 
Venue – Sheraton Hotel – Nashua, NH
Nashua is home to over 85,000 residents making it the second largest city in New Hampshire. This vibrant community is situated along the Merrimack and Nashua Rivers and is just 45 minutes away from Boston and 60 minutes from the New Hampshire Seacoast. 
Richard Potter - America’s First Black Celebrity
Two hundred years ago Richard Potter was the most popular entertainer in America – the first showman, in fact, to win truly nationwide fame. Working as a magician and ventriloquist, he personified for an entire generation what a popular performer was and made an invaluable contribution to establishing popular entertainment as a major part of American life. His story is all the more remarkable in that Richard Potter was also a black man.

Author John A. Hodgson presents a compelling argument that the first American-born professional magician was much, much more than a simple performer. He will also share updates of new information unearthed since the book was published in 2018.
Gathering Highlights

SCHEDULE
The Gathering is starting earlier on Thursday this year! 
Registration will open at 9 AM Thursday, November 7th, 
and the first event starts at 3 PM. 

PANELS
Retrospective and Q & A with Guest of Honor Robert Olson
Organizing Collections with Mike Caveney, Richard Hughes, & Bruce Averbook

FEATURED SPEAKERS
Mike Rose • Dean Carnegie • Judge Brown • William Kalush 
Brandon Hodge • George Schwartz • Anna Thurlow 
Ice McDonald • Rory Rennick • John Hodgson • Dean Arnold  
Jonathan Neil Brown • Tom Ewing • Michael Claxton

PERFORMERS
Matt Roberts (emcee) • Jonathan Neil Brown • Kevin Bethea

EXHIBITS AND MORE …
Opening Night Wine and Cheese Reception • Saturday Evening Banquet 
Book Signing Event  • Dealers Room with choice collectibles • A lively Magic Auction
The Yankee Magic Collector Authors Recognition

PROGRAM SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE
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