BLACKSTONE SR., Harry (Henry Boughton, 1885 ? 1965). Blackstone Get-Together Handbill. [Colon, MI: Abbott?s Magic, 1961]. Letterpress handbill printed by Abbott?s for Harry Blackstone Sr.?s only appearance at its annual Get-Together, billing Blackstone as the ?world?s greatest magician.? Pale green/blue stock with black printing. 8 ? x 5 ??. Toning around perimeter.Despite the fact that Blackstone lived and worked (in the off season) in the tiny town of Colon, Michigan for nearly thirty years ? a peninsula on one end of town was named after him as ?Blackstone Island?; and despite the fact that it was at Blackstone?s urging that Percy Abbott should come to town to visit, fish, and otherwise relax; and despite the fact that Blackstone and Abbott co-owned the Blackstone Magic Co. in town for some eighteen months together; and despite the fact that Abbott?s Magic Get-Together was run in the small hamlet (with a population of only 1,000 locals or less in those days) beginning in 1934, it was not until 1961 that Blackstone would make an appearance on the stage of the Colon High School Auditorium, one year after Percy Abbott?s death.Though the exact reason for their differences has never been revealed, Blackstone and Abbott, after the breakup of their magic business in the late 1920s, would reportedly never speak to each other again. And yet the two men remained among the most prominent citizens of the tiny farm community in which they both lived. This handbill advertises a homecoming of sorts for Blackstone, for by the time he finally appeared at an Abbott Get-Together he had sold his property in Colon and moved, first to New York and then to California where he spent the last few years of his life in Hollywood in and around the environs of the then-new Magic Castle.