I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere

Episode 239: Sherlock Holmes in Comics

<h4 style="text-align: center;">“this comic interlude” [3GAB]  </h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDdRKY_0uvqq296c7eDB5a3hRUeOEP5IosFLj_45s5T1dYA8AaxM7tqx3xXyj-jGdTdnKt4xLfLV6FjVLEe5WteSKvo7FMT3BlaaDhi2R8WYEy3RtaM-crQ7yO4IdUXjczfsSqR_FMwb1m79HqkHEj1LhrfBD3IKtPuIycv6dAL4X5zM6HaX-EEfOrEw/s600/SherlockComicsLogo.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="469" data-original-width="600" height="500" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDdRKY_0uvqq296c7eDB5a3hRUeOEP5IosFLj_45s5T1dYA8AaxM7tqx3xXyj-jGdTdnKt4xLfLV6FjVLEe5WteSKvo7FMT3BlaaDhi2R8WYEy3RtaM-crQ7yO4IdUXjczfsSqR_FMwb1m79HqkHEj1LhrfBD3IKtPuIycv6dAL4X5zM6HaX-EEfOrEw/w640-h500/SherlockComicsLogo.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></div><div><p>Sherlock Holmes has appeared in comic strips for nearly a century and in comic books for almost as long. And the comics industry is a multi-billion dollar enterprise, having spawned movies, television shows, and large-scale conventions.</p><p>So isn't it time that someone chronicled Sherlock Holmes's appearance in comics? Johanna Draper Carlson has done just that with her new site Sherlock Holmes in Comics.</p><p>We chat with her about her early Sherlock Holmes influence (a surprisingly advanced one for a beginner), her work experience with DC Comics, her legacy in writing about comics for the last quarter century, and more.</p><p>The <b>Canonical Couplet</b> follows the interview: we give you two lines of poetry, and you need to identify which Sherlock Holmes story they represent. The winner will receive an old Sherlock Holmes comic book.</p><p>Send your answer to comment @ ihearofsherlock .com by May 14, 2022 at 11:59 a.m. EST. The winner will be chosen at random from among all the correct answers. 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Episode 239: Sherlock Holmes in Comics

“this comic interlude” [3GAB] Sherlock Holmes has appeared in comic strips for nearly a century and in comic books for almost as long. And...

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by Scott Monty

Review: Mr Doyle's Class Presents A Study in Scarlet

<p style="text-align: center;"><b> “a small brochure, with the somewhat fantastic title of ‘A Study in Scarlet’” [SIGN]</b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGoivW8VHQ4Al5jxzK9s5eIj8R0Ovi5gSZlWS7-UVwkvWlDSfg3FOxjrzZljPqkwg3gEkfxXbBD0Inxy52ynvhx3yysBLWfIYVtJWNonfY9yyI8hk17luD1-9cdtIn4JEeQkimB31g7o5D22hwuOuYHoJC1PT0hqJ1u7uCBZoHFdrfEAq_1dLu-q8qDA/s460/doyle%20class%20study%20scarlet%20cropped.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="319" data-original-width="460" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGoivW8VHQ4Al5jxzK9s5eIj8R0Ovi5gSZlWS7-UVwkvWlDSfg3FOxjrzZljPqkwg3gEkfxXbBD0Inxy52ynvhx3yysBLWfIYVtJWNonfY9yyI8hk17luD1-9cdtIn4JEeQkimB31g7o5D22hwuOuYHoJC1PT0hqJ1u7uCBZoHFdrfEAq_1dLu-q8qDA/s16000/doyle%20class%20study%20scarlet%20cropped.jpeg" /></a></div><p><br /></p><p>This charming graphic novel aims to present "the original Sherlock Holmes story reimagined for a modern audience," and it succeeds wonderfully. </p><p>It's adapted by Matthew Hardy, illustrated by Russell Mark Olson, and published by the Portsmouth City Council, who also maintains the Richard Lancelyn Green collection. The goal is to introduce the novel, originally written in Portsmouth, to readers of all ages. </p><p>A group of present-day schoolchildren are learning about <i>A Study in Scarlet</i>. Under Mr. Doyle's direction, they're staging it as a play. Through the magic of imagination, the kids meet the originals, with the incorporation of the classic train car image from "Silver Blaze" in which Sherlock Holmes, in deerstalker and caped coat, explains to Dr. John Watson. </p><p>The comic format is used gracefully. The book opens with the modern-dressed kids peering around a Victorian street as snatches of dialogue float by. This illustrates the clash of cultures and times while still putting the reader in the center of the action. The current characters are drawn against classic settings, the blend making the story feel fresh. </p><p>The colors are all shades of a soft red. Although monochrome, the variety of tones adds depth to the art. The teacher is used to clarify some artistic choices. </p><p>The setting, on the stage, allows for focus on the most famous or most exciting moments, while stepping back, as necessary, to set context. For example, Sherlock Holmes is played by Scarlet Achary. Another student complains that Sherlock Holmes should be a boy, only to be told, "This is a play... Anyone can be anything they want." In a story about imagination, that's a welcome piece of advice. </p><p>The Utah section is abbreviated, accompanied by original illustrations, and summed up with the children concluding that anyone who doesn't listen to a woman's wishes is a creep. That's a nice way to highlight the still-relevant messages from this long-ago tale of revenge. </p><p>My only complaint is that the lettering is awfully small. Younger readers shouldn't have a problem, though, and it makes for a book comfortably sized for smaller hands. </p><p>The book can be ordered from the <a href="https://museumshops.uk/product/a-study-in-scarlet/" target="_blank">Portsmouth Museums website</a>, and <a href="http://www.alteredinstinct.com/2020/05/book-review-mr-doyles-class-presents.html" target="_blank">this review by Leo McBride</a> has included preview art panels. </p><p><br /></p><p><b><i>Mr Doyle's Class Presents A Study in Scarlet</i> adapted by Matthew Hardy, art by Russell Mark Olson, published by Portsmouth City Council, February 2020</b></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjk58g2N30hFc5wBARPuCkah19WncWDYPoAMPyD2-nkGS3rzZjPONnkoPtiKUQ6aBHs_eYV58iRgkijWU3na6gmdmFRV9SHJBBMDTeMUIdK1K5WqNGOV_KHkwE09o2TaNkm8fPkAYm9IIYs6F_75txiMeDzCrSrUNjV11843iFvX0Gl7mOlR2VqH9_4yg/s640/doyle%20class%20study%20scarlet.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="460" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjk58g2N30hFc5wBARPuCkah19WncWDYPoAMPyD2-nkGS3rzZjPONnkoPtiKUQ6aBHs_eYV58iRgkijWU3na6gmdmFRV9SHJBBMDTeMUIdK1K5WqNGOV_KHkwE09o2TaNkm8fPkAYm9IIYs6F_75txiMeDzCrSrUNjV11843iFvX0Gl7mOlR2VqH9_4yg/s320/doyle%20class%20study%20scarlet.jpeg" width="230" /></a></div><br /><b><br /></b><p></p><p><b><br /></b></p>

Review: Mr Doyle's Class Presents A Study in Scarlet

“a small brochure, with the somewhat fantastic title of ‘A Study in Scarlet’” [SIGN] This charming graphic novel aims to present "the ...

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by Johanna Draper Carlson

Baker Street Elementary – E-I-E-I-O

<h4 style="text-align: center;">“small farmers, well known” [SIGN] </h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhn7j4W_TigA2-tUwqOBgGJM8b15JvgpaaRZq2ClqRZLY_0Tb6oJKWporoxOSajKA2fT5d0H14HLP8wGWCdh0joVqiECRVuBnJSmj7eEfDobtBkFRN4DTL5c1MXqyuO_CC2qAudxjNTNNaLP7CftVNPRwk3Q7NiZsBp8lQ8Ro4XgQSfnBuKe9DnN-9hOg/s768/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20130.1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhn7j4W_TigA2-tUwqOBgGJM8b15JvgpaaRZq2ClqRZLY_0Tb6oJKWporoxOSajKA2fT5d0H14HLP8wGWCdh0joVqiECRVuBnJSmj7eEfDobtBkFRN4DTL5c1MXqyuO_CC2qAudxjNTNNaLP7CftVNPRwk3Q7NiZsBp8lQ8Ro4XgQSfnBuKe9DnN-9hOg/w640-h480/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20130.1.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>When we think of Sherlock Holmes, we immediately conjure up images of Victorian London, a city swathed in fog, with citizens bustling about on streets lit by gas-lamp. The stories evoke city life.</div><div><br /></div><div>And yet, we find a few instances of farm life that creeps into the tales from time to time.</div><div><br /></div><div>Consider the very first time the public met Holmes in <i>A Study in Scarlet</i>: we're taken to a place very different from London: the Great Alkalai plain and eventually to Utah, where John Ferrier sets up as...a farmer. He eventually became "the richest of the farmers," making his daughter Lucy an attractive object for many a suitor.</div><div><br /></div><div>Next, we find Jonathan Small recounting his tale in <i>The Sign of Four</i>, expressing how different he was from his family:</div><blockquote><div>"They were all steady, chapel-going folk, small farmers, well known and respected over the country-side, while I was always a bit of a rover."</div></blockquote><div><br /></div><div>It isn't until we reach stories in The Return of Sherlock Holmes that we encounter farmers again. In "The Dancing Men," we discover that Norfolk farmers are something of a Victorian Airbnb: "And the farmers take in lodgers."  </div><div><br /></div><div>And then there are the few "moor farmers" who rear sheep and cattle in "The Priory School," and "two moorland farmers" in <i>The Hound of the Baskervilles</i>.</div><div><br /></div><div>Anyone who's familiar with farming — at least the agricultural type — has heard of bushels and pecks as a form of volumetric measurement. However, we don't seem to encounter a single instance of those in the Canon, even from young Francis Prosper, the greengrocer in "The Beryl Coronet."</div><div><br /></div><div>The Baker Street Irregulars do have a peck, though: Andrew J. Peck ("Inspector Baynes, Surrey Constabulary"), who made a very different measurement in his scholarship: a chronology of the 60 stories, published together with Les Klinger, BSI ("The Abbey Grange"), titled <i><a href="https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDM365052&R=365052" target="_blank">"The Date Being—?" A Compendium of Chronological Data</a></i>.</div><div><span style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;"><div></div></span></div><div><span style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;"><br /></span></div><div>Meanwhile, the boys at Baker Street Elementary, try to wrap their heads around mathematical measurements...</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidbvrU1ZX-hoJEeUf1muiC3RfLeQasL_5EvHTMw_Rg-40m5PSIqVwkRyzBPyvy4QiOy0kU4sO1Ap3_jl5ySL9750imh5y72fLqEslTiLdg4eBfR_2T56Ccm8OYMgAF9xdC2l5MUNoGVhhrjC-66LoFrOo8f7BocOg9uNJKDoa4VYwTz8Wu0HZ7OdZt5A/s768/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20130.2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidbvrU1ZX-hoJEeUf1muiC3RfLeQasL_5EvHTMw_Rg-40m5PSIqVwkRyzBPyvy4QiOy0kU4sO1Ap3_jl5ySL9750imh5y72fLqEslTiLdg4eBfR_2T56Ccm8OYMgAF9xdC2l5MUNoGVhhrjC-66LoFrOo8f7BocOg9uNJKDoa4VYwTz8Wu0HZ7OdZt5A/w640-h480/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20130.2.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiy7vgDThKzth6UsiZd98GQSEgAR2MUapAXPms_1OpjaPSwsRyTBDU_HdItSMbLjvHa8ABjUGVdGQN5AsRzaAX6knST5_cxK6QxDtmXU8asXzySc0LH37i-vUGBZShiIEihnZ0wn7SniLSIW95jvMbEMbXHPzvA_kwD_ePhUnq5-oSvN1z76AEKD5PLPg/s768/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20130.3.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiy7vgDThKzth6UsiZd98GQSEgAR2MUapAXPms_1OpjaPSwsRyTBDU_HdItSMbLjvHa8ABjUGVdGQN5AsRzaAX6knST5_cxK6QxDtmXU8asXzySc0LH37i-vUGBZShiIEihnZ0wn7SniLSIW95jvMbEMbXHPzvA_kwD_ePhUnq5-oSvN1z76AEKD5PLPg/w640-h480/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20130.3.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0MEKvJLjWxrnhgnodIJ9eEZhtJZp4GLOQAPhchm3Mx6G9_I4Jwo2LNO6gkCX2qmpDmm0LMOsmhghJnrWW1uFrXaydg-XuAUfwbeZJmxOrM5TGWEHyFp4o7enufk_GXyYAxSx3oYxy7hFiVrrk3UI9LOEQIqk7c4w3e_6eJnrg__PENO1i8UmFFGcrmQ/s768/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20130.4.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0MEKvJLjWxrnhgnodIJ9eEZhtJZp4GLOQAPhchm3Mx6G9_I4Jwo2LNO6gkCX2qmpDmm0LMOsmhghJnrWW1uFrXaydg-XuAUfwbeZJmxOrM5TGWEHyFp4o7enufk_GXyYAxSx3oYxy7hFiVrrk3UI9LOEQIqk7c4w3e_6eJnrg__PENO1i8UmFFGcrmQ/w640-h480/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20130.4.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgR05ZFYb0wlOLmZB02c4_yujMD9tF4mOLqZCQ19ZRwRf9ks82aqDj7MKc_DwJAzCUX_Bl5cv5Ctuh_6pC269b4nkA7CNXEFSmY3-184hi8c7ZLjnUt3PpRfb5yU3uRBfoXc5FHLq7gCN1Fqauz-MbrUfskQXQgJ9Y3UrTvlUxewewJ2ODyqk1RIHDrtA/s768/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20130.5.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgR05ZFYb0wlOLmZB02c4_yujMD9tF4mOLqZCQ19ZRwRf9ks82aqDj7MKc_DwJAzCUX_Bl5cv5Ctuh_6pC269b4nkA7CNXEFSmY3-184hi8c7ZLjnUt3PpRfb5yU3uRBfoXc5FHLq7gCN1Fqauz-MbrUfskQXQgJ9Y3UrTvlUxewewJ2ODyqk1RIHDrtA/w640-h480/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20130.5.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><div><b style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><i>Baker Street Elementary</i></b><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-size: 14px;"> follows the original adventures of Sherlock Holmes and John Watson, as they and their friends work through the issues of elementary school in Victorian London. 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Baker Street Elementary – E-I-E-I-O

“small farmers, well known” [SIGN] When we think of Sherlock Holmes, we immediately conjure up images of Victorian London, a city swathed i...

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Episode 238: Referring to My Notes

<h4 style="text-align: center;">“on referring to my notes” [REIG]  </h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAYc4kRlp-9FsLmDWtTvRFt3_sMyoDtCG2OPS8R5CoPmobLIjiaur-q2sRPZIz8c5ij2-AghZkUVjfpEOX8M0W05mIQqe7gU1z5yEiUU_rHA4pxGGUqzAjltHrapliAs2A5o_ldcRXuGaX07NDdPTP29UOh5aBbcPhtRI6Mj5GLlPPhKJGX_sSmmZN6A/s1920/ihearofsherlock238%20widescreen.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1920" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAYc4kRlp-9FsLmDWtTvRFt3_sMyoDtCG2OPS8R5CoPmobLIjiaur-q2sRPZIz8c5ij2-AghZkUVjfpEOX8M0W05mIQqe7gU1z5yEiUU_rHA4pxGGUqzAjltHrapliAs2A5o_ldcRXuGaX07NDdPTP29UOh5aBbcPhtRI6Mj5GLlPPhKJGX_sSmmZN6A/w640-h360/ihearofsherlock238%20widescreen.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></div><div><p>Long-time students of Sherlock Holmes might think that Guy Warrack covered all there was to say in his 1947 classic Sherlock Holmes and Music. 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Episode 238: Referring to My Notes

“on referring to my notes” [REIG] Long-time students of Sherlock Holmes might think that Guy Warrack covered all there was to say in his 1...

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Baker Street Elementary – Agony

<h4 style="text-align: center;">“where all gossip is welcome” [VALL] </h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaYItduoF0TcEFmtu7MLvH1iq4MTMm3M7LPboION1Lpjpnmf4ZtVq3x-nlWkgxmJQT0kbtspdC45YCejYOq_Gl1Z8L8Pqva9HH1In2tMic8VrVxVcYoY2PZYXfcM9AGANAmaSjHVjyO-bc5e6NpQmDNwVoN97CEVhwVywqkY4K6e8yyvg-cSU-ewlR9w/s768/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20129.1.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaYItduoF0TcEFmtu7MLvH1iq4MTMm3M7LPboION1Lpjpnmf4ZtVq3x-nlWkgxmJQT0kbtspdC45YCejYOq_Gl1Z8L8Pqva9HH1In2tMic8VrVxVcYoY2PZYXfcM9AGANAmaSjHVjyO-bc5e6NpQmDNwVoN97CEVhwVywqkY4K6e8yyvg-cSU-ewlR9w/w640-h480/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20129.1.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><span style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;">Sherlock Holmes knew that he could clean up when he paid attention to those dishing dirt.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;">The "The Red Circle," Holmes expresses his disdain for such material, but acknowledged its utility:</span></div><div><blockquote><span style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;">He took down the great book in which, day by day, he filed the agony columns of the various London journals. “Dear me!” said he, turning over the pages, “what a chorus of groans, cries, and bleatings! What a rag-bag of singular happenings! But surely the most valuable hunting-ground that ever was given to a student of the unusual!</span><span style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;">”</span></blockquote></div><div><span style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;">In "The Three Garridebs," Holmes recommended that John Garrideb use such a resource for finding his quarry:</span></div><div><span style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;"><div></div><blockquote><div>“I should have thought, sir, that your obvious way was to advertise in the agony columns of the papers.”</div><div>“I have done that, Mr. Holmes. No replies.”</div></blockquote></span></div><div><span style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;">Of course, Holmes scanned the columns daily, so if something so unusual were to appear, he would have certainly seen it and added it to his clippings.</span></div><div><span style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;">Nor was Holmes averse to personal communication to achieve his goals. In "The Solitary Cyclist," he chided Watson for missing an obvious opportunity to gather intelligence:</span></div><div><span style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;"><div>“What should I have done?” I cried, with some heat.</div><blockquote><div>“Gone to the nearest public-house. That is the centre of country gossip. They would have told you every name, from the master to the scullery-maid.”</div></blockquote></span></div><div><span style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;">And Silas Brown, the trainer at the Mapleton stables in "Silver Blaze" knew exactly how information vital to races could be conveyed:<br /><div></div><blockquote><div>As Sherlock Holmes replaced the half-crown which he had drawn from his pocket, a fierce-looking elderly man strode out from the gate with a hunting-crop swinging in his hand.</div><div>“What’s this, Dawson!” he cried. “No gossiping! Go about your business!”</div></blockquote><div></div></span></div><div><span style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;"><br /></span></div><div>At Baker Street Elementary, there are all kinds of dirt available on the playground...</div><div><br /></div><div><i><b>Related:</b> <a href="http://ihose.co/trifles50" target="_blank">Trifles Episode 50: The Agony Column</a></i></div><div><br /></div><div><iframe allowfullscreen="" data-dashlane-frameid="3920" data-dashlane-rid="e30be3bd414bb8d4" data-form-type="other" height="192" mozallowfullscreen="true" msallowfullscreen="true" oallowfullscreen="true" scrolling="no" src="//play.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/6044939/height/192/theme/modern/size/large/thumbnail/yes/custom-color/d0161c/time-start/00:00:00/playlist-height/200/direction/backward" style="border: none;" title="Embed Player" webkitallowfullscreen="true" width="100%"></iframe><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-IiG_GvY_5uKIT3zxVgGhkOeO6r7t2ZcMCQ1Qsz5jgj0TKaJR8A-JlTgqQ05GTtB9osJ1M9CmiWZxlUpT_RkW6WdCy9SqQeJNiLEPHYNhFDALfp-3IYmxL1kEQKgM7MYR0y5pwmTMkLN2fKrU3nOR0STijbFG9ahfOBz4mcrwvh8lW521DoGTPH97zg/s768/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20129.2.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-IiG_GvY_5uKIT3zxVgGhkOeO6r7t2ZcMCQ1Qsz5jgj0TKaJR8A-JlTgqQ05GTtB9osJ1M9CmiWZxlUpT_RkW6WdCy9SqQeJNiLEPHYNhFDALfp-3IYmxL1kEQKgM7MYR0y5pwmTMkLN2fKrU3nOR0STijbFG9ahfOBz4mcrwvh8lW521DoGTPH97zg/w640-h480/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20129.2.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">[Editor's note: I know]</span></i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgg7jOeOTd_qM-SBFJXOkMvdavHG_cqrLqXrOrm17IRCDPKfHaEIKwTqn9m_iVMXy_MWnU-qPDG0Tyc0zsoBou2mif1jAXGrFk46XjyFayb7Wbe0XEy51lceP73itVWoI-xkCCbdMS0x0T4s4Egr38TN8YTP5Gt2hMnnRF76Fvxcxl3C8mewcmQZgK7zw/s768/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20129.3.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgg7jOeOTd_qM-SBFJXOkMvdavHG_cqrLqXrOrm17IRCDPKfHaEIKwTqn9m_iVMXy_MWnU-qPDG0Tyc0zsoBou2mif1jAXGrFk46XjyFayb7Wbe0XEy51lceP73itVWoI-xkCCbdMS0x0T4s4Egr38TN8YTP5Gt2hMnnRF76Fvxcxl3C8mewcmQZgK7zw/w640-h480/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20129.3.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglAYrcI47xVR6YF1mJCsNLDf1BOXbGlivVbswFTYOhMo-FC0Qx60GJNmpOEsY5Bp95udUNAkG9INgGB3I9NJdoQCa87ClWVaTDoeM93Yq3AydDbJDmFTAQMQ1kVux-29jIla8uV6zElOdqemcWGJ5AR1IhVigZ7n7AurIJK0RQb1Oku6vFUgH_QO8nvg/s768/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20129.4.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglAYrcI47xVR6YF1mJCsNLDf1BOXbGlivVbswFTYOhMo-FC0Qx60GJNmpOEsY5Bp95udUNAkG9INgGB3I9NJdoQCa87ClWVaTDoeM93Yq3AydDbJDmFTAQMQ1kVux-29jIla8uV6zElOdqemcWGJ5AR1IhVigZ7n7AurIJK0RQb1Oku6vFUgH_QO8nvg/w640-h480/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20129.4.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><div><b style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><i>Baker Street Elementary</i></b><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-size: 14px;"> follows the original adventures of Sherlock Holmes and John Watson, as they and their friends work through the issues of elementary school in Victorian London. 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Baker Street Elementary – Agony

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by Scott Monty

Jubilee @ 221B and the First Curator of the Arthur Conan Doyle Collection

<h4 style="text-align: center;">"Last year I came up to London for the Jubilee" [DANC]</h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiILmxXto3XDXNiwQ8_WCahWybZvUwKQJ0WaKCdwuuZ6CpzcFGAoOrhE5Ty7JOnsnzV9C3NgWHWrAZr6U4iR6rlUH0MTM7DWChwoSF902Dm81bze48baObQNL6Awa3qNjvUh1O9Bu6nfk8Sgx3Glvw7cJoBoEIfMh-0NP-vHg8NiMpFWfd8NHXs1pzy8g/s500/Jubilee-color-logo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="463" data-original-width="500" height="592" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiILmxXto3XDXNiwQ8_WCahWybZvUwKQJ0WaKCdwuuZ6CpzcFGAoOrhE5Ty7JOnsnzV9C3NgWHWrAZr6U4iR6rlUH0MTM7DWChwoSF902Dm81bze48baObQNL6Awa3qNjvUh1O9Bu6nfk8Sgx3Glvw7cJoBoEIfMh-0NP-vHg8NiMpFWfd8NHXs1pzy8g/w640-h592/Jubilee-color-logo.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div><br /> Word is getting around about this fall's Sherlockian and Doylean conference in Toronto: "<a href="http://acdfriends.org/jubilee221b.html" target="_blank">Jubilee @ 221B</a>", celebrating the 50th anniversaries of the Arthur Conan Doyle Collection at the Toronto Public Library, and of the <a href="http://www.torontobootmakers.com/">Bootmakers of Toronto</a>. (The ACD Collection officially opened late in 1971, and the Bootmakers became a thing a few months later.)  <br /><br /> The Bootmakers will co-sponsor the Jubilee event along with the <a href="http://acdfriends.org" target="_blank">Friends of the ACD Collection</a>, a group that raises money and awareness as a unit of the Toronto Public Library Foundation.   <br /><br /><br /><br /> The Friends were in the spotlight a few months ago, when (for the second year in a row) their flagship event, the <b>Cameron Hollyer Memorial Lecture</b>, took place online because of public health restrictions. The speaker was playwright Jeffrey Hatcher, who has put Sherlock Holmes on the stage more than once, was invested in the Baker Street Irregulars in 2018 as "The Five Orange Pips," and incidentally gave <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2017/06/the-2016-bsi-dinner.html" target="_blank">another major lecture</a>, this one for the BSI itself, in New York in January 2016.  <br /><br /><br /><br /> The Friends event has been a fixture for more than twenty years now, but this year I noticed that not a great deal was said on the Zoom presentation about Cameron Hollyer himself, whose name it honors. That name will be familiar to most people in the Sherlockian world, no doubt, but possibly there are some — especially those who have joined our ranks since Cameron died in the summer of 2000 — who may know little or nothing about him.</div><div><br /></div><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjtssYikacaCnQeMPikhvXH-JuM9CPJwG9pCCwxabwDULkde9ENPpBn20-IeA96pd4Z4Up2AjUapObhHn4W5iY-evtsV3uKm4o66P7v7nqoOC8zIFwyYGNobIKqSKxYfW1jbm9xJB6VLOfFlafGd9e9-UXFH4kb3bCGE8kT6fDjHgoXkMm1P_pwN4FDQ/s3327/Cameron%20Hollyer.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2015" data-original-width="3327" height="388" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjtssYikacaCnQeMPikhvXH-JuM9CPJwG9pCCwxabwDULkde9ENPpBn20-IeA96pd4Z4Up2AjUapObhHn4W5iY-evtsV3uKm4o66P7v7nqoOC8zIFwyYGNobIKqSKxYfW1jbm9xJB6VLOfFlafGd9e9-UXFH4kb3bCGE8kT6fDjHgoXkMm1P_pwN4FDQ/w640-h388/Cameron%20Hollyer.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Cameron Hollyer (image credit: <a href="http://www.acdfriends.org/images/Cameron.jpg">Friends of the Arthur Conan Doyle Collection</a>)</span></i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><h3 style="text-align: left;">Cameron Hollyer (1926 – 2000)</h3> He was the curator of the Arthur Conan Doyle Collection from the time it was created at what was then the Metropolitan Toronto Library in 1971 until his retirement twenty years later. He was also a Sherlockian scholar of note, a friend to just about everyone who crossed his path, and such a representative of Sherlock Holmes that when Colorado State University decided to award Mr. Holmes an honorary degree, Cameron was invited to show up (in deerstalker and Inverness) to accept it on his behalf.  <br /><br /> Said one tribute in <i><a href="https://www.torontobootmakers.com/canadian-holmes/" target="_blank">Canadian Holmes</a></i>, the magazine of the Bootmakers of Toronto, in 1991: </div><blockquote><div>"Though he has never been our president — for it seems generally acknowledged that his talents lie elsewhere than in administrative efficiency — he has always been our presiding genius."</div></blockquote><div><br /></div><div>His many contributions were traced by several writers in that issue of <i>Canadian Holmes</i> on the occasion of his retirement, as well as in his own reminiscence, "The Curator's Egg," an informal history of the Toronto collection. </div><div><br /></div><div>Born in 1926, he joined the staff of the Toronto library as a young man, and in 1969 was involved in the inspired decision to form an Arthur Conan Doyle collection, as well as the 1971 <b>Weekend with Sherlock Holmes</b> that launched it. </div><div><br /></div><div>He was subsequently not only an influential Bootmaker but a respected figure across the Sherlockian world, known for his gentle humour, his kindness, his way with words, and his vast knowledge.  <br /><br /> When I had the opportunity to give the Cameron Hollyer Memorial Lecture at the Toronto library in 2005, I said a few words about the man whose name it bears:</div><blockquote><div>"It is not easy, for me at least, to separate the atmosphere of the Arthur Conan Doyle Room here from the image of Cameron Hollyer, tall, stooped and tobacco-stained, ready with information and anecdote and literary allusion. He once told a story of a visitor, not exactly one of the initiates, who wandered into the ACD Room, spotted Cameron and asked in something like awe, 'Are you Arthur Conan Doyle?' Cameron, who did not like to say no to anybody, decided to temporize. 'What does it say on the door?' he asked, and the visitor nodded in satisfaction — and, fortunately, wandered out again.   <br /><br /> "Cameron did not look like the broad and beefy Conan Doyle, or share his booming voice and sporting tastes, and it is something of a wonder that Cameron ended up specializing in the life and work of a man so unlike him. We will perhaps appreciate Cameron best if we remember that before he was a Doylean, he was an authority on twentieth-century American literature, a product of that erudite alma mater, the Harvard College of the 1950s."</div></blockquote><div><br /></div><div>Members of Cameron's family have attended many of the annual lectures over the past two decades — members of his family by blood, I mean; for those of us who are Sherlockians, certainly those who are Canadian Sherlockians, are all members of Cameron Hollyer's family.  <br /><br /> Jubilee @ 221B is scheduled for September 23 – 25, 2002, at the Toronto Reference Library in downtown Toronto. <b>Nicholas Meyer</b> has been announced as the keynote speaker, and other information is coming out bit by bit through the Friends' website and on other Sherlockian media.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><h4 style="text-align: left;"><i>Some related I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere episodes:</i></h4><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><a href="https://ihose.co/ihose121" target="_blank">Episode 121: Canada and Sherlock Holmes</a></li><li><a href="https://ihose.co/ihose129" target="_blank">Episode 129: Pop Sherlock</a></li><li><a href="https://ihose.co/ihose212" target="_blank">Episode 212: All Things ACD</a></li><li><a href="https://ihose.co/ihose218" target="_blank">Episode 218: Arthur Conan Doyle, Sportsman</a></li></ul></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>--</div><div><br /><br /></div>