Author Archive: Dan Smith
The US Postal Service has announced that The Art of Magic postage series will be released in 2018. The series of five stamps celebrate the art of magic featuring digital illustrations of five classic tricks magicians use to amaze and delight audiences.
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An amazing showman, magician, and sword swallower; Johnny was a friend to many of us in the magic world and a frequent Gathering attendee and performer. More details are available in the New York Times and Washington Post obituaries.
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by Ann Goulet
Around 1974 Ray Goulet made a decision that it was time to sell the illusions and magic accumulated over a thirty year period that he was no longer using. He would keep only the magic for his club date act and maybe a few pieces to which he had become attached.
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by John Booth, Excerpt from Memoirs of a Magician’s Ghost
Armed with a Sony tape recorder, I returned to the Goulets’ magic center after a hiatus of several years. My first visit should have included note making. But, I was so inundated with details and a need to sort them out before I could describe them in writing that I promised to come back.
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This photo from the March, 1985 club meeting at Magic Art Studio is a Who’s Who of New England magic collectors: Chet Karkut, H. Adrian Smith, Ray Goulet, Dr. Grossman and many others.
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by John Booth
Excerpt from Memoirs of a Magician’s Ghost
When the S.S.United States cut through the ocean waves as one of the world’s largest steamships, 22 of its trans-Atlantic sailings boasted a magical entertainer on board named Ray Goulet. On a Cunarder crossing in 1969, I believe, he gave a private show for the Duke and Duchess of Windsor.
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The Yankee Magic Collector, Issue #15 is the companion publication for Yankee Gathering 14. This beautiful issue contains 162 pages, 88 color images (95+ total images).
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The Yankee Magic Collector, Issue #14 (2010), edited by Andrew J. Pinard. 210 pages, 142 color images (150+ total images).
This stunning issue of YMC is the first to use extensive color throughout. Signed and numbered edition limited to 175 copies.
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