Professor John Henry Pepper presents
Magic & Conjuring
at the Biltmore House in Asheville, NC
In April and May of 1997, Rhett Bryson appeared at the Biltmore
House in Asheville, NC in a series of weekend performances presented
as a part of the Spring Festival of Flowers - Amusements of the
Guilded Age.
Professor Pepper (in a homage to the real Professor Pepper, who
invented the Pepper's Ghost illusion) performed classical conjuring
as might have been seen at the turn of the century. The performances
were done to provide an atmosphere of the types of entertainments
that George Washington Vanderbilt would have provided for his
houseguests in 1901.
These photographs capture some of the moments from Professor
Pepper's act. The performances took place in the basement "Halloween
Room."
