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Professor John Henry Pepper presents
Magic & Conjuring
at the Biltmore House in Asheville, NC

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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."

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FLAMES!
We were not expecting that!

 

Rise, Card, Rise!

The space has been
transformed!

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