I.B.M. Ring 362
Dr. James William Elliott Ring
Bangor, Maine
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Ring Report
September 16, 2006
Minutes for this meeting.
The September Meeting for I.B.M. Ring 362 was held at the Sebasticook Valley Community Center (SVCC) in Newport, Maine, on September 16, 2006, at 2:00 pm. The meeting began with the Cavalcade of Magic, a public show to benefit the SVCC.
The show opened with Dr. Wilson climbing the Ladder of Swords, his bare feet pressing down on the razor-sharp steel. Conjuring Carroll followed with a brief explanation of magic that demonstrated that people listening to a magician can't tell their cheeks from their chins; he followed with a silk routine with some nice vanishes. Professor Miller followed with a beautiful presentation of the Chinese Rings done to music.
Brother Don Paul opened with a Coins Across routine that had the coins clinking into a clear wine glass at the end of their magical journey. He followed this with a pretty golf ball manipulation routine. Breaking the magician's code, he taught the audience how to turn a red silk into a white egg. While showing the hole in the egg that reveals the red silk inside, he peeled off the hole and threw it away, then cracked the egg to show that it was real. Brother Don then performed his colorful of Sands of the Desert and closed his segment with Snowstorm in China, always an audience favorite.
Wes Booth performed Three Card Monte with giant cards, then followed with his award-winning card manipulation act. Then he really pulled out the stops, hypnotizing and floating a young lady from the audience!
Danny Baker tried to stretch a rope magically, but ended up getting seriously tangled in it, finally yanking it out of his sleeve so hard that it removed his underwear. He tried a new magic trick by having a child from the audience read the instructions while he performed it on another volunteer. Because of a mistake in the instructions, he ended up with a raw egg under an upside-down cup on the young man's head, before magically cooking the egg and preventing a big mess. He then introduced Wally Wizard, a puppet that was too hungry to do any magic, but who sang us a nice song about being hungry!
Professor Miller performed the Mismade Flag with an able assistant from the audience costumed as Abraham Lincoln. After a great deal of hooting and hollering from the audience, the stuffy Professor finally listened to the kids and got it right. Dr. Wilson escaped from a straitjacket, wrapped on the outside with twenty feet of heavy chain secured with five padlocks. Wes Booth closed the show by producing streams of silks and a stuffed rabbit from his Imagination Box; with one last round of magic words from the audience, he was able to turn the toy rabbit into a real one, much to the delight of the crowd.
By all accounts, the show offered something for everybody, and the Ring was warmly thanked by the Sebasticook Valley Community Center after they finished counting the money!
The business meeting followed. Congratulations were offered to Markus Almodarr Steelgrave on his admission to The Magic Circle. Ring members also voted to donate space on the Ring's web site to host the registration page for the Worldwide Escape Artist Relay scheduled for October 27, 2007. Full details of the business meeting and photos are available on the Ring's web site (www.ibmring362.org).
