Mordecai's Journal

The Society of American Magicians
Northern Connecticut Assembly #21
Newsletter for February 2010
Mordecai

 

 

Meetings:

Second Monday of every month except December at Angelo's on Main in West Hartford
(I-84 exit 41)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
February Meeting:
“Simply Red”

In honor of valentines everywhere, your challenge this month is to bring a trick to perform that has something to do with the color red.  Use a red silk, a red card, a ketchup bottle, anything like that.  Be creative with us on February 8 at 7:30 PM.  Join the officers for dinner at 6:00 PM.

Minutes of January Meeting

11 January 2010 7:33 PM VP Dan Sclare called the meeting to order.
The secretary’s report was accepted as published, and the treasurer reported taking in some dues, and stated our balance. G&W: Over the holidays, Pres. Angelo Chirico, Dan, and Charlie Hayden did some shows at the Cromwell Children’s Home.
Charlie’s wife’s organization donated some Christmas gifts.  The following day, the trio performed in Hartford for an adult counseling service company, and that night at Hartford Hospital for Interval House.
A raffle for a complete set of Tarbell books, made available to us at cost by the Studio of Magic in Rocky Hill was held, and the winning ticket belonged to Rich Gilbert, from the Springfield, MA, assembly.  An additional door prize drawing for Volume 8 of the course was won by Dana Ring. Adjourned at 8:12PM

Tonight’s theme was “Magic from Tarbell.”
Dan started us off with a trick from vol. #4, page 116, which he re-named "The World's Fastest Rising Card, Twice."  Two cards were selected and returned to the deck which was placed in a→

When Last We Met
VP Dan Sclare shows Dave Garrity an old picture of Dave’s “long-lost twin.”
←   goblet and covered with a cloth.  When the cloth was whipped off, one of the cards was revealed.  This was immediately repeated to reveal the other card.
Rick St. Pierre presented another trick from vol. #4, page unknown.  He dealt 10 blue-backed cards to one spectator and 10 red-backed cards to another.  Three blue-backed cards were invisibly transferred to the other pack.  When the packs were counted, sure enough, only seven blues were there, only to be interspersed in the red pile.
Dave Garrity gathered two plates and several forks and knives and did a lovely little swindle concerning an "extra" utensil traveling invisibly from one pile to the other.
Norm St. Laurent folded a $5 bill, but when unfolded was a different $5 bill! He then swapped a $1 bill for a $5 in a spectator's hand.
Lastly, Ed Cook presented a box with front & back drop-down doors.  After showing the box to be empty, he pulled a bunny silk out of it.
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