Louisville on the Horizon

For those of you conventioneers in the reading audience of this blog, expect to see part of the Fun Inc. family - Graham and Kathryn Putnam, along with yours truly - in Louisville next week. We will all be attending the combined IBM/SAM convention, which will be held at the Galt House Hotel.

A host of magic dealers and performers will also be in attendance at this historic event, the first combined IBM/SAM convention in over 50 years. If memory serves (not that I was there, though I think I remember the date), the last combined IBM/SAM convention was held in Chicago in 1955 or 1956. This was the convention at which John Ramsay was first introduced to American magicians (Vernon among them).

For this year's soiree, Fun Inc. was comissioned to create a custom-made giveaway for every attendee. I don't want to ruin the surprise, but will say this: it's quite the choice gift, and suitable for magicians of any age. The truck picked up two pallets stacked high with these beauties just last week. Distribution takes place at the convention next week.

On to Louisville!