The Yankee Gathering is our biennial, invitation-only magic collector conference and premier event, held in even-numbered years.  Yankee Gathering XII will take place on November 13-15, 2008 in Westborough, Massachusetts, USA.

The Yankee Magic Collector is the official journal of NEMCA, published every two years to coincide with the Yankee Gathering of that year.  Each issue contains a broad range of articles on topics of interest to magic collectors and historians.  Contributing authors are some of the world's leading magic historians and collectors.  Many back issues of The Yankee Magic Collector are still available.  Articles are now being accepted for Issue #13, which will be distributed at the upcoming Yankee Gathering XII.  Please contact Ed Hill at ymc@nemca.com if you would like to submit an article.

We now have available for sale a limited number of remaining copies of the DVD, A Tour of the H. Adrian Smith Library.  H. Adrian Smith's library is recognized as one of the finest privately owned collections of magic books and other historical conjuring items in the world.  He gave his extraordinary collection to Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, USA, and attendees of Yankee Gathering XI in 2006 were given the opportunity to tour the library.  This DVD was given to each registrant at the convention to supplement the live tour.  It shows Smith, a former president of NEMCA, talking about his collection with David Downs in 1986.  The DVD is offered for sale on our Collectibles page.

Also for Yankee Gathering XI in 2006, NEMCA issued a medallion and a pocket mirror honoring Reginald Scot's Discoverie of Witchcraft, first published in 1584, one of the first English language books to describe conjuring secrets.  Both the medallion and mirror are a limited edition, and the medallion was made in three different metals.  The Discoverie medallions and mirrors were originally for sale at the convention, and those that remain are now available for sale on our Collectibles page.

We have available for sale various collectibles from previous Yankee Gatherings.  These include tokens, commemorative pocket mirrors, program books, key tags, and tote bags.  Proceeds from the sale of all collectibles benefit the activities and events of NEMCA.

NEMCA meetings are held in the marvelous meeting room of Ray Goulet's Magic Art Studio and Mini Museum of Magic in Watertown, Massachusetts, USA.  We are indebted to Mr. Goulet, a charter NEMCA member, for the use of his magical facility and for his quarter-century of ongoing tireless efforts for the club.