By Erin Kayata
When Stephen Wood was growing up in Auburn, New Hampshire, he watched his grandfather perform simple magic tricks — pulling an egg out of his mouth or making a coin disappear.
Wood knew he wanted to do the same. He soon acquired his own Mickey Mouse magic book and a beginner magician’s kit.
It would kickstart what turned into a lifelong love affair with magic.
“I fell in love with magic immediately,” said Wood, now a visiting associate clinical professor and program director in the adult/gerontology acute care nurse practitioner program at Northeastern University. “I started doing magic for my family probably at age 6. We always played around with it.”
