Restoring the lost legacy of African American magician, The Great Boomsky
Magician and magic historian Margaret Steele joins host Jeff Douglas to talk about her new book, The Great Boomsky: The Many Lives of Magic's First Black Superstar. Boomsky was a character, a bumbling magician's sidekick, who was played by more than a dozen people in the decades after the American Civil War, including Isaac Willis, who fell in love in Halifax, and settled in Truro.
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