The Yankee Gathering 2022 is in the planning stages, and we have some great things planned! The dates are November 3rd – 5th, 2022, in Westborough, MA. Registration and Hotel information will be posted when available. Please check back soon.
Eileen McFalls is the author of No Ordinary Magic, a memoir about her adventures street performing with Jim Cellini. After meeting this charismatic street performer, Eileen stepped into his world of magic without hesitation. But she was still in search of herself when she fell under his spell and into this outsider culture that was foreign to her.
Eileen McFalls has lived and traveled extensively as a busker, club owner, medical technologist, and graphic designer. Currently, she is working on writing projects and as a guest speaker for podcasts, magic groups, and book clubs. She resides in Greensboro, North Carolina.
For more information visit: https://www.noordinarymagic.com.
Jim Cellini (Richard Sullivan from Nashua, NH) developed and performed his unique brand of street busking throughout North America and Europe during the 1970s and 1980s. Cellini’s signature routines featured the Cups and Balls, Linking Rings and Rope Magic – all performed in renaissance attire and gibecière. He died in 2009 while living in Switzerland.
The Conjuring Arts Research Center has been recognized for many reasons but in particular for its outstanding contribution to the preservation of magic history and for generously providing the opportunity for historians and researchers to have access to the Center’s huge data base of publications and manuscripts associated with magic and the related arts through the ConjuringArts.com website or by searching at the AskAlexander.org page. Furthermore, we honor CARC’s publication, Gibeciere, the quarterly journal that disseminates original scholarly information of interest to magic historians and collectors. The members of NEMCA want to thank the Center for all it has done and hope it continues as a source of information and quality publications for many years to come.