Subject: Re: Scott McKeon
From: Richard Besser (rbesser@ymail.com)
Date: Thu May 28 2009 - 20:24:01 CDT
Thank you, Evan. That's a great story and I appreciate your reminiscing for us about Scott and Jerry.
Linda
--- On Thu, 5/28/09, ELG440@aol.com <ELG440@aol.com> wrote:
From: ELG440@aol.com <ELG440@aol.com>
Subject: Scott McKeon
To: ohhs59@venus.soci.niu.edu
Date: Thursday, May 28, 2009, 11:53 PM
In a message dated 5/28/09 3:56:25 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
rbesser@ymail.com writes:
I am aware that Scott passed away. But I always wondered if he ever did
anything with his magic skills. Does anyone know?
Linda Parmelee
Scott and I used to spend a great deal of time at each other's homes with
our magic equiptment. We would bring out one piece of equiptment and than
another, and try to find different ways to make it interesting I traveled
with him to the magician conventions and we often stayed together.
A few years ago I was asked to do some magic at a party, so I went to a
magic shop to see what was new. Nothing was new. The owner, now a young man
started to talk to me about some of the history of magic he knew about. He
mentioned one book that came out about ten years ago, talking about the
conventions Scott and I used to go to, Abbot's Magic Conventions in Colon,
Michigan.
He mentioned a old "fable" of an actual cruisifiction, but that no one knew
if it was real or not. I told him not only was it real, but me and my
buddy Scott were there, and I thought I had a picture of it. I went to the
office and pulled out one of my old scrap books, and there was a picture I took
while Scott and I watched, laughing. The rest of the audience was
screaming and running out. We sat there enthralled. It wasn't a trick, but it was
supposed to be so. I think we were about 13, and thought it was just funny.
I sent the picture and an article to The Linking Ring, the magazine for The
International Brotherhood of Magicians, and they published it.
I talked to Scott a few time after Highschool. He stopped to see my aunt to
discuss magic whenever he was in Grand Rapids, but didn't perform much in
the later years. He was interested in music more, and I remember those
nights together with a set of linking rings, a zombie, a deck of cards or some
silks like they were yesterday.
Scott had so much more talent than I ever did. Another like that with
extraordinary talent was Jerry Lewis. I am so pleased I got to know them.
And, I so regret that they are gone.
Evan Ginsburg
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