Al Baker Assembly #35 Newsletter

President: Joe Quitoni Scribe: Darryl Bielski

Vice President: Ryan Dutcher [email protected]

Treasurer: Frank Monaco www.sam35.com Secretary: Kathie Cvitkovac Assembly #35 Facebook Page

President's Words Write on Que 5/8/2020 Dear members and friends,

I hope that you are all staying healthy and coping with the stress and challenges of the new world we now live in. There is nothing new here, we have been staying busy working on the 3 restoration projects we have at the shop. Otherwise, it’s to the shop and back home. I bid in the Potter & Potter auction last Saturday and won 3 lots. A set of Karrell Fox books all signed to , 20 L&L books out of his collection and a deck of cards inside a glass bottle with a branch and dove with a plaque to Johnny. The prices his things brought was out of sight! His set of engraved cups & balls brought 12,000.00 dollars YES 12,000.00 Dollars. 2 of his egg bags fetched $5000.00 each, people just wanted something that was his. I am one of them, for me, that was the Karrell Fox books. When I just got into , Dawn & I went on a magic cruise Karrell Fox & Bev Bergeron were two of the guest magicians onboard. So, we met them both & ended up spending hours with Karrel Fox teaching me magic. So, I have all his books autographed to me. When passed, I was able to buy a set of Karrell Fox books autographed to Tom, so keeping the tradition, I really wanted that set of books, and happy to say I got them. You can almost see a pattern starting.

So, our meeting is being canceled again. If things loosen up, maybe we’ll make up the meetings in July & August. I am not sure but will keep you all posted. This coming week on Wednesday the 13th David Haines will be on the 4th International Stars of Magic Livestream from the Greg Frewin Theatre in Niagara Falls at 7:00 pm Check out the line up of magicians Joe Devlin, Shawn Farquhar, Nathan Burton, Patrick Kun, David & Dania, Jon Dorenbos, Bruno Tarnecci, Matthew Laslo, Mike Robinson, Bill Cook, Titou, Oh yes, David Haines too. Check it out at Greg Frewin theatre https://youtu./Q2wERvilVG8 it’s going to be a good show. There are a lot of great interviews & shows on Facebook, every night someone is on live. check out FranzHararysQuarantinetalk/facebook. Harrison Greenbaum, a good friend of Frank Monaco, I can’t say enough about him, his magic is great and he’s funny as hell. Check him out at Who Books That? On Facebook. Here are some links that our president-elect sent me. You may have to copy and paste them to work. So be safe, hope to see you soon!

https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2020/04/28/mario-the-maker-magician- copes-with-family-sickness-life-in-covid-19-era/

Listen to a podcast with Master Mentalist Banachek’s perspective on negotiating ...

http://www.negotiations.ninja/podcast/negotiation-strategies-straight-from-famous- mentalist-banachek-ep-131/

A free online lecture this Friday from the SAM archives ...

https://abc7chicago.com/dennis-watkins-magic-lessons-shows-palmer-house- magician/6120856/

More magicians doing online Magic shows and lectures ...

https://abc7chicago.com/dennis-watkins-magic-lessons-shows-palmer-house- magician/6120856/

A collection of online Magic-related videos on YouTube will keep you busy ...

https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCNeiXd_8K3U_-_5FH845Wdg/videos

There’s also this “online” media called “television” which is about to provide us with a lot of Magic ...

https://www.wwlp.com/news/nbcs-americas-got-talent-is-returning-this-summer- what-you-can-expect/

Magic in History ...

https://www.historyextra.com/period/medieval/ancient-healing-spells-demons- medieval-obsession-history-magic/

Magic with Flaming Canon Balls on Britain’s Got Talent ...

https://metro.co.uk/2020/04/26/britains-got-talent-magician-took-18-months-master- trick-went-horribly-wrong-12612376/

David Copperfield on Instagram offering an All-in Challenge ...

https://www.instagram.com/p/B_Sv8eYFywb/?igshid=n618tb9zek76

A lot of Free magic downloads online ...

https://bigblindmedia.com/collections/free-magic-downloads

Wanna see a virtual comedy Hypnotism/Mentalism Show?

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/live-virtual-comedy-hypnotism-show-featuring-the- amazing-ronnie-baras-tickets-101912196122