Available for 30 Days: The Hound of the Baskervilles Concert Drama

<h4 style="text-align: center;"> “Our nerves have all been at concert-pitch” [LION]</h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgENY26nVhjhb3A6uzBiTkVGw52s_gQVqD0Yk3Mshc9HE7eeYKY7A-fsezPjSdOmc2M3PCSPd9LXqLte_VWIs_uo_pFnQdpvQgcw2sI4biMvEaN8FIA3NVELFrFuTp68Z1ekhCUdfF7wABcBKY9kg5_3VR_CsVPZVVLiZwfyIGj5B1euXTMs7nPo2mwg/s967/HOUND%20BBC3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="543" data-original-width="967" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgENY26nVhjhb3A6uzBiTkVGw52s_gQVqD0Yk3Mshc9HE7eeYKY7A-fsezPjSdOmc2M3PCSPd9LXqLte_VWIs_uo_pFnQdpvQgcw2sI4biMvEaN8FIA3NVELFrFuTp68Z1ekhCUdfF7wABcBKY9kg5_3VR_CsVPZVVLiZwfyIGj5B1euXTMs7nPo2mwg/w640-h360/HOUND%20BBC3.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div></div><br /><p>When we say "I hear of Sherlock everywhere," we really mean it.</p><p>The latest opportunity to turn your ear toward something audio-related regarding Sherlock Holmes is a new and unique production: <b>Neil Brand</b>'s very special approach to what is probably the most famous of Sherlock Holmes stories: <i><b>The Hound of the Baskervilles</b></i>.</p><p>Following the success of his adaptations of <i>A Christmas Carol</i> and <i>The Wind in the Willows</i>, Neil Brand – dramatist, composer and long-term collaborator with the BBC Symphony Orchestra – has crafted a chilling, gripping and hair-raising version of this favorite tale.</p><p>This is a concert drama in three parts, adapted from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic novel, in which Brand has provided the music and words, with the former performed by the <b>BBC Symphony Orchestra</b> and the latter by a small ensemble of actors.</p><p>In the introduction, Brand notes that he has a surprise twist for the audience, as well as one or two modern turns of phrase and "ushering in a much-loved character not found in the original story." </p><p>He also notes his musical influences: </p><blockquote><p>"By chance, and to escape from the grim realities of the modern world, I spent the last three years in both the musical and literary worlds of gothic horror... I investigated the modernist composers who scored the Hammer films for a BBC Radio 4 documentary. </p><p>This score inhabits those dark realms: influenced by Universal horror scores of the 1930s and the jagged harmonies of 1950s Hammer. I've even included a homage to Hammer maestro James Bernard."</p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p><b>Mark Gatiss</b> stars as Sherlock Holmes with <b>Sanjeev Bhaskar</b> as Dr. Watson. Recorded at the Barbican Hall, London on December 20, 2022.</p><p><i><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001h56s" target="_blank">The Hound of the Baskervilles</a></i> is available to listen to for 30 days directly on the <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001h56s" target="_blank">Radio 3 website</a> (<a href="http://bbc.in/3XKhgKK" target="_blank">bbc.in/3XKhgKK</a>) and via <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds" target="_blank">BBC Sounds</a>.  </p><p>Don't miss this chilling, gripping, and hair-raising performance before it's gone!</p><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/AVvXsEjxEDN4ynWouiAbY0QmcuRuW6cd6MEUeI3XxX4n8zFz72SAr3znp-vtStv7biVpzu0uh_7cVxNFDhjBgDJDKgXkdRZbppH6G9z5SGVQy4Sl_mveLMgd8ChEWRf-2yg1hlSY4BsKMFTf-63CpbqlbrHctAAZajMYqfx5QgQu7HkvCFXn_FuJmir3t7jiKQ/s1229/HOUN%20BBC3.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="847" data-original-width="1229" height="442" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxEDN4ynWouiAbY0QmcuRuW6cd6MEUeI3XxX4n8zFz72SAr3znp-vtStv7biVpzu0uh_7cVxNFDhjBgDJDKgXkdRZbppH6G9z5SGVQy4Sl_mveLMgd8ChEWRf-2yg1hlSY4BsKMFTf-63CpbqlbrHctAAZajMYqfx5QgQu7HkvCFXn_FuJmir3t7jiKQ/w640-h442/HOUN%20BBC3.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Mark Gatiss and Sanjeev Bhaskar</span></i></td></tr></tbody></table><p><br /></p><h3 style="text-align: left;">Credits</h3><p>Neil Brand, orchestrated by Timothy Brock: <i><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001h56s" target="_blank">The Hound of the Baskervilles</a></i> (BBC co-commission and world premiere)</p><p><br /></p><h3 style="text-align: left;">Cast</h3><p>Mark Gatiss - Sherlock Holmes<br />Sanjeev Bhaskar - Dr Watson<br />Sam Dale - Dr Mortimer/Frankland/Narrator<br />Ewan Bailey - Barrymore/Mycroft/Narrator<br />Clare Corbett - Mrs Barrymore/Beryl Stapleton/Billy/Narrator<br />Carl Prekopp - Stapleton/Selden/Narrator<br />Ryan Early - Henry Baskerville/Narrator</p><p><br /></p><p></p><h3 style="text-align: left;">BBC Symphony Orchestra</h3>Timothy Brock (conductor)<br />Neil Brand (conductor)<br />David Hunter (director)<p></p><div><br /></div><h4 style="text-align: left;"><b>Related content:</b></h4><div><iframe allowfullscreen="" data-dashlane-frameid="1142" data-dashlane-rid="b4ceaaa764e24a47" data-form-type="other" height="192" mozallowfullscreen="true" msallowfullscreen="true" oallowfullscreen="true" scrolling="no" src="https://play.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/3090004/height/192/theme/modern/size/large/thumbnail/yes/custom-color/000000/time-start/00:00:00/playlist-height/200/direction/backward/download/yes" style="border: none;" title="Embed Player" webkitallowfullscreen="true" width="100%"></iframe><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://ihose.co/ihose68" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ihose.co/ihose68</a></div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" data-dashlane-frameid="1200" data-dashlane-rid="8d9fd1441a48334c" data-form-type="other" height="192" mozallowfullscreen="true" msallowfullscreen="true" oallowfullscreen="true" scrolling="no" src="https://play.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/3127050/height/192/theme/modern/size/large/thumbnail/yes/custom-color/000000/time-start/00:00:00/playlist-height/200/direction/backward/download/yes" style="border: none;" title="Embed Player" webkitallowfullscreen="true" width="100%"></iframe><br /></div><a href="http://ihose.co/ihose69" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ihose.co/ihose69</a><div><br /><div><br /></div></div>

Available for 30 Days: The Hound of the Baskervilles Concert Drama

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Episode 256: The BSI Weekend in Review

<h4 style="text-align: center;">“Holmes gave me a brief review of what had passed” [THOR]  </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/AVvXsEjW6A20GKnNvry0pYV1vF3g89HpQuUssLef_MlaFozKSGM9bUicZSELHdzNWANPVyhaWO_Fxpt5Aba9RNTmasILB6gkySsobUyC9cesN6mT6LeiakqtYAbX0HCQgOGW_nsKxBoR6k2lhnD2nPuM13ajd31jy5wEGHiEEmlYgKDw0NA9j_GsropHawx7WQ/s1800/ihose256%20-widescreen.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1012" data-original-width="1800" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjW6A20GKnNvry0pYV1vF3g89HpQuUssLef_MlaFozKSGM9bUicZSELHdzNWANPVyhaWO_Fxpt5Aba9RNTmasILB6gkySsobUyC9cesN6mT6LeiakqtYAbX0HCQgOGW_nsKxBoR6k2lhnD2nPuM13ajd31jy5wEGHiEEmlYgKDw0NA9j_GsropHawx7WQ/w640-h360/ihose256%20-widescreen.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></div><div><p>The 2023 BSI Weekend has come and gone, and it was filled with plenty of food, friends, and frivolity.</p><p>We provide a glimpse of what we saw — including a number of our listeners and guests — and put it in context for you. 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Episode 256: The BSI Weekend in Review

“Holmes gave me a brief review of what had passed” [THOR]   The 2023 BSI Weekend has come and gone, and it was filled with plenty of food, f...

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by Scott Monty

The Strand Magazine to Receive Special Edgar

<h4 style="clear: both; text-align: center;">“American Exchange, Strand—” [STUD] </h4><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgoZt2ImPCdYv7-W4Pd6SMoy7KWWYcfkNRje2lu5QK721Uq0ES2ib1y2Akq26rShBTt0qJ-0rbd2j4pvwo0viqCQ0uvTlv9uZwXSbEjRZZnSSbC_FOnPBbPL2GBPd21OwBmz3OCCwwYgdyXwXLoxqo2Uf80O6ZP4kYu8EmIlsN1wysCbWnQBSoOvtGpWA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="437" data-original-width="640" height="438" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgoZt2ImPCdYv7-W4Pd6SMoy7KWWYcfkNRje2lu5QK721Uq0ES2ib1y2Akq26rShBTt0qJ-0rbd2j4pvwo0viqCQ0uvTlv9uZwXSbEjRZZnSSbC_FOnPBbPL2GBPd21OwBmz3OCCwwYgdyXwXLoxqo2Uf80O6ZP4kYu8EmIlsN1wysCbWnQBSoOvtGpWA=w640-h438" width="640" /></a></div><br /><i><a href="https://strandmag.com/" target="_blank">The Strand Magazine</a></i> has been selected as the recipient of a Special Award in this year's Edgar® Awards.<br /><p></p><p>Every January 19th, Mystery Writers of America announces the nominees for <b>Edgars</b> (January 19th being Poe's birthday), honoring the best in mystery fiction, non-fiction, and television published or produced the previous year. </p><p>This year marks the 214th anniversary of the birth of Edgar Allan Poe.</p><p><a href="https://mysterywriters.org/" target="_blank">Mystery Writers of America</a> is the premier organization for mystery writers, professionals allied to the crime-writing field, aspiring crime writers, and those who are devoted to the genre. MWA is dedicated to promoting higher regard for crime writing and recognition and respect for those who write within the genre. </p><p>They provide scholarships for writers, sponsor MWA Literacy programs, sponsor symposia and conferences, present the Edgar® Awards, and conduct other activities to further a better appreciation and higher regard for crime writing.</p><p><a href="https://mysterywriters.org/mwa-announces-2023-edgar-award-nominations/" target="_blank">The 2023 Edgar Nominations</a> were announced today and contain a wide variety of material. Of particular note is the naming of <i>The Strand Magazine</i> as recipient of the <b>Ellery Queen Award</b>, one of the categories of Special Awards.</p><p><br /></p><h3 style="text-align: left;">The Ellery Queen Award</h3><p><a href="https://edgarawards.com/category-list-the-ellery-queen-award/" target="_blank">The Ellery Queen Award</a> was established in 1983 to honor “outstanding writing teams and outstanding people in the mystery-publishing industry.” </p><p>According to the press release,</p><p></p><blockquote>“This year the Board chose to honor <i><b>The Strand Magazine</b></i>, a bimonthly periodical known as much for its incisive articles about the mystery world and its practitioners and penetrating interviews with top authors like James Patterson and Lee Child, as for unearthing lost short stories penned by now-dead literary greats, such as a 600-word short story by Raymond Chandler, written in the 1950s toward the end of his life, as well as the forgotten fiction of such giants as Dashiell Hammett, William Faulkner, Tennessee Williams and H.G. Wells.”</blockquote><p></p><p><b>Andrew Gulli</b>, managing editor of <i>The Strand</i>—in print for 25 years—said,</p><blockquote><p>“When <i>The Strand</i> started 25 years ago, we had no idea how big it would get. So, it’s great to see <i>The Strand</i> being honored with the Ellery Queen Award from Mystery Writers of America. MWA has always felt more like a community—one in which I’ve formed strong friendships and where <i>The Strand</i> has found some of its best authors. As a print publication with a strong online presence, The Strand has had to continuously adapt to an ever-changing industry and being honored with the Ellery Queen Award from MWA serves as definite proof that print is not only alive but kicking! Here’s to another 25 years!”</p></blockquote><p><br />It's a testament to the hard work, ingenuity, and consistency that Gulli has brought to the publication over the two and a half decades he's been at the helm.</p><p>Longtime listeners of <i>I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere</i> may remember our conversation with Andrew Gulli in Season 11 on <a href="https://ihose.co/ihose139" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Episode 139: The Strand Magazine</a>:</p><p><iframe allowfullscreen="" data-dashlane-frameid="4368" data-dashlane-rid="5ac404a4c9751a21" data-form-type="" height="192" mozallowfullscreen="true" msallowfullscreen="true" oallowfullscreen="true" scrolling="no" src="https://play.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/6316032/height/192/theme/modern/size/large/thumbnail/yes/custom-color/46352a/time-start/00:00:00/playlist-height/200/direction/backward/download/yes" style="border: none;" title="Embed Player" webkitallowfullscreen="true" width="100%"></iframe><br /></p><p><i>(Archives of IHOSE can be found at <a href="http://ihose.co/ihoseshows">ihose.co/ihoseshows</a> or through the "Listen" navigation on the website.)</i></p><p>Recipients will gather for the 77th Annual Edgar Awards Ceremony on April 27, 2023 at the Marriott Marquis Times Square in New York City.</p><p><br /></p>

The Strand Magazine to Receive Special Edgar

“American Exchange, Strand—” [STUD]  The Strand Magazine has been selected as the recipient of a Special Award in this year's Edgar® Aw...

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Baker Street Elementary – Don't Get Any on the Walls

<h4 style="text-align: center;">“something of refinement and delicacy” [FIVE] </h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2bunuFIEe8r0bH-0GAnpW6wu3NYcZCDd9S0otKXnfD2oSpcbgE62_s7D9ZkJBrPwsgRDOJFGiziqqOLT0jj2Ec1TZUG6hMrFvHf4CDVvyFq7udgKF3M4uQbNHBcgCkRMN5aDhIJ0vAg6mtlTGY1_Eblm3Nf9mYWNe_4OSnROvkjEC3-aYefxafWNoBw/s768/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20146.1.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/AVvXsEi2bunuFIEe8r0bH-0GAnpW6wu3NYcZCDd9S0otKXnfD2oSpcbgE62_s7D9ZkJBrPwsgRDOJFGiziqqOLT0jj2Ec1TZUG6hMrFvHf4CDVvyFq7udgKF3M4uQbNHBcgCkRMN5aDhIJ0vAg6mtlTGY1_Eblm3Nf9mYWNe_4OSnROvkjEC3-aYefxafWNoBw/w640-h480/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20146.1.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Dining with Sherlock Holmes is typically a standard affair. The meals we hear about in the Canon are straightforward — some cold beef and a glass of beer, green peas at seven-thirty, a crude sandwich stuffed into a pocket.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Occasionally, such as the supper laid out for Lord St. Simon and his erstwhile bride, we find something a little more luxurious:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">"a couple of brace of cold woodcock, a pheasant, a <i>pâté de foie gras</i> pie with a group of ancient and cobwebby bottles." [NOBL]</div></blockquote></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><h4 style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Related:</h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://ihose.co/trifles42" target="_blank">Trifles Episode 42 - A Noble Supper</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" data-dashlane-frameid="359" data-dashlane-rid="484d113da1fce44b" data-form-type="other" height="192" mozallowfullscreen="true" msallowfullscreen="true" oallowfullscreen="true" scrolling="no" src="https://play.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/5852119/height/192/theme/modern/size/large/thumbnail/yes/custom-color/d0161c/time-start/00:00:00/playlist-height/200/direction/backward/download/yes" style="border: none;" title="Embed Player" webkitallowfullscreen="true" width="100%"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">It is only once that things rise to the level of a Wodehousian Drones Club scene, as Holmes relayed reason behind the Dundas separation case:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">"he had drifted into the habit of winding up every meal by taking out his false teeth and hurling them at his wife" [IDEN]</div></blockquote></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">But of course at Baker Street Elementary, things are not quite as refined and genteel yet...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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An archive of all previous episodes can be viewed at </span><a href="http://www.bakerstreetelementary.org/" style="background-color: white; color: #006f85; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;">www.bakerstreetelementary.org</a><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">.</span></div><div><div><br /></div><div><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-F-VumJdilF0/WJa_9TrpA3I/AAAAAAAAuO8/52U-hZ7WY4Qz2Oqo84lF8KQnF0zynZ5YQCPcB/s1600/Baker%2BStreet%2BElementary.jpg" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="358" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-F-VumJdilF0/WJa_9TrpA3I/AAAAAAAAuO8/52U-hZ7WY4Qz2Oqo84lF8KQnF0zynZ5YQCPcB/s640/Baker%2BStreet%2BElementary.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div><br /><br /></div></div><div><i>For those who <a href="https://youtu.be/CHOpoOnkRJE?t=64" target="_blank">may have recognized the headline</a>.</i></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div>

Baker Street Elementary – Don't Get Any on the Walls

“something of refinement and delicacy” [FIVE]  Dining with Sherlock Holmes is typically a standard affair. The meals we hear about in the Ca...

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The 2023 BSI Weekend — Awards, Accolades, and Amusements

<h4 style="text-align: center;">“those week-end parties” [SOLI]  </h4><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/AVvXsEjlOIPNBhn21rgLuJSOAE-XHYJov3MG4DO-ARC_fFipAneCXyZimOp1TzszUwmXrYEvZ63KCTzf_SrUYS5hygoxa1cYucKrKnHh_MuyGUCmgzMyNI6UM9fMoyppLntVrMxfxQe-zuszAxbMpvJ-H-RSScVYPRtJZLN4XolpEHY91a9mc8chjkFvHL2C6Q/s1389/Class%20of%202023.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Pictured, left to right: Pelle Schantz Lauridsen, Elaine Coppola, David Harnois, Cynthia Brown, John Sherwood, Lee Schackledford, James O'Leary (back row); Takahiko Endo, Erika Dowell, Dore Nash, Roberta Pearson (front row)" border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1389" height="442" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlOIPNBhn21rgLuJSOAE-XHYJov3MG4DO-ARC_fFipAneCXyZimOp1TzszUwmXrYEvZ63KCTzf_SrUYS5hygoxa1cYucKrKnHh_MuyGUCmgzMyNI6UM9fMoyppLntVrMxfxQe-zuszAxbMpvJ-H-RSScVYPRtJZLN4XolpEHY91a9mc8chjkFvHL2C6Q/w640-h442/Class%20of%202023.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo credit: Will Walsh</span></i></td></tr></tbody></table><br />For those who were there, it's hard to believe the BSI Weekend has wrapped up.<div><br /></div><div>From January 4 – January 8, Manhattan played host to some 300 or so Sherlockians who gathered to celebrate the 169th birthday of Sherlock Holmes.</div><div><br /></div><div>Events for your editor included the unofficial kickoff with an ASH Wednesday dinner (a lively pub dinner at Annie Moore's) to the intimate and traditional Lunch of Steele on Thursday, held at the Salmagundi Club (and hosted by co-host Burt Wolder) to celebrate the life of <a href="https://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2020/06/in-memoriam-frederic-dorr-steele.html#.Y7wmnnZKjb0" target="_blank">Frederic Dorr Steele</a>.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /><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/AVvXsEhPXFVFa-fXBAe7DkOFUES1JT_EJrhdD0as6BGzg8t7ky6oHHhp4_S4tkzxTyuOTDsCPyxqwhe6l_vdKkJEDro_nbTGgbLbhDGavfpxWArH0LNMWGjto7uvnnZ30Tj5s4C-HEaD5sNpV6flEyV7UesJU3OyZvHNMRajgaZZf_baDJb2z5hgm6-AsxQKCw/s4032/IMG_3519.HEIC" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2268" data-original-width="4032" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPXFVFa-fXBAe7DkOFUES1JT_EJrhdD0as6BGzg8t7ky6oHHhp4_S4tkzxTyuOTDsCPyxqwhe6l_vdKkJEDro_nbTGgbLbhDGavfpxWArH0LNMWGjto7uvnnZ30Tj5s4C-HEaD5sNpV6flEyV7UesJU3OyZvHNMRajgaZZf_baDJb2z5hgm6-AsxQKCw/w640-h360/IMG_3519.HEIC" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">The historic landmark plaque at the Salmagundi Club</span></i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="2268" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_dtVm6-s5_yE_VlBcoNen1MFx2Lnk3sjLr-YCD_nRwFq6Q1IweNI_kk1Ykj2_nwIyrfOn2hbMTiD2dS5Q_aNrt3j77BZDqwWKxa9Uei7rAu4Nu2RjvLzoBPJ60THGHVuIUJDNHn-GyUoq2AWtHfAD6RtWCTmf7xHgzCgAd_oWwmSXtJYsbXtHIcyzDg/s320/IMG_3536.HEIC" width="180" /></a></div></div><div><br /></div><div>If you're interested in more about Frederic Dorr Steele, listen to <a href="https://ihose.co/ihose204" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Episode 204 of I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere</a>:</div><div><br /></div><div><div style="margin: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; 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margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="866" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhgiSM3Mc3SsVcsWsze0zbDUAo5c7k6wz6sRXaiLOPyoquTegr_tRDKBDcQqtUFTgEGWmxWexKZBdIJK_3ZI9bNAvbsYmEjWAMTMdy2G2V_aQ63r3mPS-BKJoSf51x5RxiQI7CyDkkMIqCawSVUGqpeBIARi_VbBxA4QZB-lvGKN4e_WyFy6AMLj2EHww=w347-h400" width="347" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo credit: Ross Davies</span></i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><h3 style="text-align: left;">Doylean Honors</h3></div><div>The ACD Society also had a more august role, which was the conferring of its annual <a href="http://acdsociety.com/" target="_blank">Doylean Honors</a>.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfVaY99UFtbUg5oqgBeqpnMSkNMHDGFDhKh9HsAXQDaui3lWckPjceIACjChc4My3jMx-soyHqlHBDUNVknElDz6Q4iVUwswtmXp-ygz7LujNevjUUwYTRVWaiHmSA2llMtg0uCuPzFRJoTW5UY4mp8lbHFCkUPjki3WrJaZnp5vs-HhBe-o3jk1IRLw/s616/ACD%20Society%20Doylean%20Honors%202022.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="616" data-original-width="600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfVaY99UFtbUg5oqgBeqpnMSkNMHDGFDhKh9HsAXQDaui3lWckPjceIACjChc4My3jMx-soyHqlHBDUNVknElDz6Q4iVUwswtmXp-ygz7LujNevjUUwYTRVWaiHmSA2llMtg0uCuPzFRJoTW5UY4mp8lbHFCkUPjki3WrJaZnp5vs-HhBe-o3jk1IRLw/s320/ACD%20Society%20Doylean%20Honors%202022.jpg" width="312" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><br /></div><b>For Lifetime Service:</b><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owen_Dudley_Edwards">Owen Dudley Edwards</a></li></ul><br /><b>For excellence in the "Fiction and Poetry" category:</b><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/stores/Margie-Deck/author/B0966BSG1N">Margie Deck</a> for "Whitney’s Reflection" in <a href="https://amzn.to/3Gqov3O"><i>Steel True, Blade Straight</i></a> (Belanger Books)</li><li><a href="https://www.detectivesanddragons.uk/">Paul Hiscock</a> for “The Ascent” in <a href="https://amzn.to/3Gqov3O"><i>Steel True, Blade Straight</i></a> (Belanger Books)</li><li><a href="https://www.fantasticfiction.com/m/david-marcum/">David Marcum</a> for “The Unintended Offenses” in <a href="https://amzn.to/3Gqov3O"><i>Steel True, Blade Straight</i></a> (Belanger Books)</li></ul><br /><b>For excellence in the "Performing and Visual Arts" category:</b><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/sherlock-holmes-room-toronto-reference-library-1.4941883">Jessie Amaolo</a> for <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HgMZKq0e6k"><i>Virtual Tour of A Study in Sherlock & His Creator</i></a> (Toronto Public Library)</li><li><a href="https://www.david-macgregor.com/sherlock-fiction">David MacGregor</a> for <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qQC-Qd8nfo"><i>Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Ghost in the Machine</i></a> (Purple Rose Theater Company)</li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Cho">Frank Cho</a> for illustrations in Bonnie MacBird’s <a href="https://amzn.to/3ZkdIRg"><i>What Child is This?: A Sherlock Holmes Christmas Adventure</i></a> (HarperCollins)</li></ul><br /><b>For excellence in the "Scholarly Writing" category:</b><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><a href="http://www.shrabanibasu.co.uk/">Shrabani Basu</a> her book, <a href="https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/mystery-of-the-parsee-lawyer-9781526615312/"><i>The Mystery of the Parsee Lawyer: Arthur Conan Doyle, George Edalji and the Case of the Foreigner in the English Village</i></a> (Bloomsbury)</li><li><a href="https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/english/fallon-richard.aspx">Richard Fallon</a> for “Rediscovering Lost Worlds: Arthur Conan Doyle and the Modern Romance of Palaeontology” in his book <a href="https://research.birmingham.ac.uk/en/publications/reimagining-dinosaurs-in-late-victorian-and-edwardian-literature-"><i>Reimagining Dinosaurs in Late Victorian and Edwardian Literature</i></a> (Cambridge University Press)</li><li><a href="https://chass.usu.edu/english/directory/brian-mccuskey">Brian McCuskey</a> for “Theory and Preaching, 1887-1930” in his book, <a href="https://www.psupress.org/books/titles/978-0-271-08987-4.html"><i>How Sherlock Pulled the Trick: Spiritualism and the Pseudoscientific Method</i></a> (Penn State University Press)</li></ul><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><h3 style="text-align: left;">Brain or Appendix</h3><div>The BSI held the Distinguished Speaker Lecture on Thursday evening at the New York Bar Association. This year’s Distinguished Speaker was <b>Lakshmi Krishnan, MD, Ph.D.</b> Dr. Krishnan discussed the connection between detective fiction and medical diagnosis in a fascinating talk.</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/a/AVvXsEjahrad9ljImnK21fqRjJVcB417QF6p_rIdpx8iIUuFRcMiwthweuUAjBpjzPz4-QC2m6wlF_m17FaIOAq7-JSVvCdh5qd--ZdfXB2SBWfeh-TOs5psJJ6QuB14cFppPpLEtOVvErH_3pVD9hNWm3Gva0R7vseOPiz9FzN8Am1XjAlnKrik2LYxD51MyA" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="764" data-original-width="1359" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjahrad9ljImnK21fqRjJVcB417QF6p_rIdpx8iIUuFRcMiwthweuUAjBpjzPz4-QC2m6wlF_m17FaIOAq7-JSVvCdh5qd--ZdfXB2SBWfeh-TOs5psJJ6QuB14cFppPpLEtOVvErH_3pVD9hNWm3Gva0R7vseOPiz9FzN8Am1XjAlnKrik2LYxD51MyA=w640-h360" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Dr. Lakshmi Krishnan and Leslie Klinger</span></i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></div><div>Dr. Krishan's presentation will be published in a future issue of the <i>Baker Street Journal</i>.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><h3 style="text-align: left;">"Shall the world, then, be overrun by oysters?"</h3></div><div>Sherlock Holmes, in his delirium in 'The Dying Detective,' wondered if oysters would take over the world if allowed to proliferate. He concluded: "No, no; horrible!" </div><div><br /></div><div>Sherlockians don't like to leave things to chance, so they established <b>S.P.O.D.E.</b>, the Society for Prevention of Oysters Destroying the Earth. This group has many local scions, but meets every year at the BSI Weekend at the Grand Central Oyster Bar & Restaurant to do its part to ensure oysters don't overrun us.</div><div><br /></div><div>So it was following the Distinguished Speaker Lecture.</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/a/AVvXsEhQFhdkS4D1PzfKqcXpCAnOA7Jg4cfdVir6nh75aknAXKV8s1hiF3TUlaHIXcjWJsT5ZRYduFzXKb0HhVyILfmQ6cStXAaggZOPomiwBM02XUC6tPgcDkDT8R0K43OA02JGicMFdmkFV_T0rjeNIz_3iCazpOImZU9JHAb7bH47ObLPT3NBeqFe_j78Cg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="901" data-original-width="1142" height="505" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhQFhdkS4D1PzfKqcXpCAnOA7Jg4cfdVir6nh75aknAXKV8s1hiF3TUlaHIXcjWJsT5ZRYduFzXKb0HhVyILfmQ6cStXAaggZOPomiwBM02XUC6tPgcDkDT8R0K43OA02JGicMFdmkFV_T0rjeNIz_3iCazpOImZU9JHAb7bH47ObLPT3NBeqFe_j78Cg=w640-h505" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Photo of Guy A. Wiggins' </i><a href="https://salmagundi.org/guy-arthur-wiggins-1920-2020-hra-1987-2020-oysters-1980s/" target="_blank">Oysters </a><i>at the Salmagundi Club</i></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><h3 style="text-align: left;">Susan Rice Mentorship Award</h3><div>On Friday at the Gillette Luncheon, the assembled diners bore witness to the latest recipient of the Susan Rice Mentorship Award.</div><div><br /></div><div>The <a href="http://www.vincentstarrett.com/blog/susan-rice-mentorship-award" target="_blank">Susan Rice Mentorship Award</a> was established in 2022 to recognize the activities of a member of the Sherlock Holmes community who has been a mentor to others, in the spirit of Susan Rice.</div><div><br /></div><div>The inaugural award went to <b>Peter Blau, BSI</b> ("Black Peter"). This year's award was granted to <b>Evy Herzog, BSI </b>("The Daintiest Thing Under a Bonnet").</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/AVvXsEgMSxWyp7m0nAE-T1UY06dIKr5Y7OMZbYGGyMn5LMd0_TYcebWz3Yf916QYDeh1Kxb6kpbmN7yL1ovQz-VxS8xPqQ9OPtDhUhRy4vkDdXMhNFMwXDCiR9b0ur6mSqSV2t1LLETMzUwptaroMe4m7_o9-MVuP5XEfVgNEhsTfCu70NFI6vd_g4R1rJNwDw/s4032/IMG_3535.HEIC" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2268" data-original-width="4032" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMSxWyp7m0nAE-T1UY06dIKr5Y7OMZbYGGyMn5LMd0_TYcebWz3Yf916QYDeh1Kxb6kpbmN7yL1ovQz-VxS8xPqQ9OPtDhUhRy4vkDdXMhNFMwXDCiR9b0ur6mSqSV2t1LLETMzUwptaroMe4m7_o9-MVuP5XEfVgNEhsTfCu70NFI6vd_g4R1rJNwDw/w640-h360/IMG_3535.HEIC" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Eminent Sherlockians and Susan Rice Mentorship Awardees Peter Blau and Evy Herzog<br /><br /></span></i></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div>You may recall our conversation with both Susan and Evy from <a href="https://ihose.co/ihose89" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Episode 89 of I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere</a>:</div><div><br /></div><div><iframe allowfullscreen="" data-dashlane-frameid="963" data-dashlane-rid="03b14e9eb2d03df6" data-form-type="" height="192" mozallowfullscreen="true" msallowfullscreen="true" oallowfullscreen="true" scrolling="no" src="https://play.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/4113629/height/192/theme/modern/size/large/thumbnail/yes/custom-color/970000/time-start/00:00:00/playlist-height/200/direction/backward/download/yes" style="border: none;" title="Embed Player" webkitallowfullscreen="true" width="100%"></iframe><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><h3 style="text-align: left;">Plaudits From the BSI Dinner</h3><div>As ever, the swirling curiosity and interest are centered on the Baker Street Irregulars annual investitures of new members. But before that, we were greeted with other substantial news.</div><div><br /></div><h4 style="text-align: left;"><i>The </i>Woman</h4><div><i>The </i>Woman, an honorific given to the spouse of a Baker Street Irregular was announced at the pre-dinner reception. This year's honoree was <b>Joan Blanksteen</b>, wife of <b>Charlie Blanksteen, BSI</b> ("Cavendish Square"). She was toasted and introduced by <b>Lou Lewis, BSI</b> ("William Whyte"), after which Joan gave her own poignant and thoughtful remarks.</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/a/AVvXsEhyu3K_QsVF-219fneZo1ZGZlvdOQTULPVGJ_mA6TzFUh0vp45AQPOPWDM4IOMyozHIW521ippwlpZof9Of_pttXhNYUPqrzgkcOAVmKTEprPStxx7yZca7-ItCg2t52h0NAu_f7lA-N57Akr0ZyOIC48JehTVmbAhkBZNYixZuse8sXpccbjY8Ox_Ojg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="764" data-original-width="1359" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhyu3K_QsVF-219fneZo1ZGZlvdOQTULPVGJ_mA6TzFUh0vp45AQPOPWDM4IOMyozHIW521ippwlpZof9Of_pttXhNYUPqrzgkcOAVmKTEprPStxx7yZca7-ItCg2t52h0NAu_f7lA-N57Akr0ZyOIC48JehTVmbAhkBZNYixZuse8sXpccbjY8Ox_Ojg=w640-h360" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Joan Blanksteen is presented with a corsage by James Saunders, BSI ("The Beryl Coronet"), who has been doing so at the BSI Dinner for 50 years</span></i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><h4 style="text-align: left;">The Morley-Montgomery Award</h4></div><div>Each year, one article in the <i><a href="https://ihose.co/BSJ" target="_blank">Baker Street Journal</a></i> (as determined by a panel of judges) is chosen for the <a href="https://bakerstreetirregulars.com/2001/05/01/morley-montgomery-award/" target="_blank">Morley-Montgomery Award</a>. </div><div><br /></div><div>This year, the award was given posthumously to <b>Nicholas Utechin, BSI</b> ("The Ancient British Barrow") for his article "For Christ's Sake: An Evaluation of Jay Finley Christ," appearing in the Summer 2022 issue of the <i>BSJ</i>.</div><div><br /></div><div>We remembered Nick with BSJ Editor Steven Rothman, BSI ("<i>The Valley of Fear</i>") in <a href="https://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2022/09/episode-249-remembering-nicholas-utechin.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Episode 249 of I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere</a>:</div><div><br /></div><div><iframe allowfullscreen="" data-dashlane-frameid="984" data-dashlane-rid="a958ea74332d85b9" data-form-type="" height="192" mozallowfullscreen="true" msallowfullscreen="true" oallowfullscreen="true" scrolling="no" src="https://play.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/24550332/height/192/theme/modern/size/large/thumbnail/yes/custom-color/9d805b/time-start/00:00:00/playlist-height/200/direction/backward/download/yes" style="border-style: none; border-width: initial; max-width: 100%;" title="Embed Player" webkitallowfullscreen="true" width="100%"></iframe><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><br style="background-color: white; text-align: center;" /></div></div><div><br /></div><h4 style="text-align: left;"><i>The Baker Street Journal</i></h4><div>We were then given news of a change of leadership at the <i>Baker Street Journal</i>. After serving 23 years as editor of the BSJ, <b>Steven Rothman</b> announced he will be stepping down, but will still be on the masthead as Editor Emeritus.</div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg4Z796B70JSHtsga1_OYSvFAmAbkjG6WPfBypYKqd_0ye_synPO5AnLLX9Cu3kGo3NiVCcretb1OAQDzcscxcOmwaWMAYe4qFyL8qwRlspMw53dgNQlSMsFQUbx4QIXR0Mv54YsA34uOwmHe0IgduMWjM4g8Q0Xcw-p59fFGS9JUSyP7hoOpSZJ3KAkg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="764" data-original-width="1359" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg4Z796B70JSHtsga1_OYSvFAmAbkjG6WPfBypYKqd_0ye_synPO5AnLLX9Cu3kGo3NiVCcretb1OAQDzcscxcOmwaWMAYe4qFyL8qwRlspMw53dgNQlSMsFQUbx4QIXR0Mv54YsA34uOwmHe0IgduMWjM4g8Q0Xcw-p59fFGS9JUSyP7hoOpSZJ3KAkg=w400-h225" width="400" /></a></div></div><div><br /></div><div>The new editor of the <i>Baker Street Journal</i> will be <b>Dan Andriacco, BSI</b> ("St. Saviour’s, Near King’s Cross").</div><div><br /></div><div>We spoke with Steve Rothman about the BSJ in <a href="https://ihose.co/ihose221" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Episode 221 of I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere</a>:</div><div><br /></div><div><iframe allowfullscreen="" data-dashlane-frameid="1059" data-dashlane-rid="91c84f3ae3f4b2e2" data-form-type="" height="192" mozallowfullscreen="true" msallowfullscreen="true" oallowfullscreen="true" scrolling="no" src="https://play.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/19974182/height/192/theme/modern/size/large/thumbnail/yes/custom-color/f9c12f/time-start/00:00:00/playlist-height/200/direction/backward/download/yes" style="background-color: white; border-style: none; border-width: initial; color: #0e0e0e; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; max-width: 100%; text-align: center;" title="Embed Player" webkitallowfullscreen="true" width="100%"></iframe><div style="background-color: white; color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/ihearofsherlock" style="color: #cccccc; font-weight: bold; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank" title="ihearofsherlock">ihearofsherlock</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ihearofsherlock/the-baker-street-journal" style="color: #cccccc; font-weight: bold; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank" title="The Baker Street Journal">The Baker Street Journal</a></div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><h3 style="text-align: left;">The Honours List</h3><div>And then we arrived at the announcement of the latest investitures into the Baker Street Irregulars. Membership is granted by Michael Kean, BSI ("General Gordon"), who serves at the BSI's "Wiggins." Each member receives an investiture — a phrase from the Sherlock Holmes canon that is significant or in other ways meaningful to that person.</div><div><br /></div><div>The BSI's Class of 2023 is:</div><div><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><b>Cynthia Brown</b> — "Sam Brown"</li><li><b>Elaine Coppola</b> — "Syracuse"</li><li><b>Erika Dowell</b> — "A First Folio Shakespeare"</li><li><b>Takahiko Endo</b> — "James Armitage"</li><li><b>David Harnois</b> — "James Boswell"</li><li><b>Palle Schantz Lauridsen</b> — "The Royal Family of Scandinavia"</li><li><b>Dore Nash</b> — "The Three Garridebs"</li><li><b>Roberta Pearson</b> — "Nottingham"</li><li><b>Lee Shackleford</b> — "Woodman's Lee"</li><li><b>John Sherwood</b> — "The Imperial Theatre"</li><li><b>James O'Leary</b> —  "James, Son of the Grimpen Postmaster"</li></ul></div><div><br /></div><div><b>Greg Ruby, BSI</b> ("Bulldog Pin with Ruby Eyes") received the Two Shilling Award, for service above and beyond.</div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>It is difficult to capture all of the activities of the BSI Weekend, due to so many small groups branching out to honor their own traditions, including named events such as ASH Wednesday, Lost in New York with a Bunch of Sherlockians, and the ASH Brunch. Not to mention other events like the Vendors Room, the BSI Luncheon.</div><div><br /></div><div>A comprehensive report of the events will be in the Spring issue of the <i>BSJ</i>.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>As ever, the game's afoot!</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><i>Note: all photos, unless otherwise indicated, are credited to the author</i></div><div><br /></div>

The 2023 BSI Weekend — Awards, Accolades, and Amusements

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by Scott Monty

Happy 169th Birthday, Sherlock Holmes

<h4 style="text-align: center;">"you could not celebrate him without being known yourself" [HOUN]</h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8BtE0un1ZmFlwDnTZYQbiKz8iAil_Yq-CJmLMI9Rgac7J3Ye1nvz9PhxEY5F_o1PHJ_XhxCa94Z2VhifqCmIr95j1-RRomb_OibDuLNlr4O9QzJWiDSDmQcNx4whmHjWk8tRf2kyJpvVlswQ3VJn8kDRXdHaxtQBxYcxfEgpj4hyGGD4WMIA8axDC_A/s900/Sherlock%20Holmes%20birthday%20cake.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="675" data-original-width="900" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8BtE0un1ZmFlwDnTZYQbiKz8iAil_Yq-CJmLMI9Rgac7J3Ye1nvz9PhxEY5F_o1PHJ_XhxCa94Z2VhifqCmIr95j1-RRomb_OibDuLNlr4O9QzJWiDSDmQcNx4whmHjWk8tRf2kyJpvVlswQ3VJn8kDRXdHaxtQBxYcxfEgpj4hyGGD4WMIA8axDC_A/w640-h480/Sherlock%20Holmes%20birthday%20cake.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>Today is January 6th — and that marks the date on which we traditionally celebrate Sherlock Holmes's birthday.<br /><br />We say "traditionally," because there is no definitive statement of his actual date of birth in the Canon, but beginning with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Morley">Christopher Morley</a>, the date of January 6th has become the de facto accepted date for Holmes' birthday. Why? Well, there are a couple of reasons.<br /><br />Of all of the quotes in the Canon, William Shakespeare was the most oft-quoted author. There is but one Shakespearean play that Holmes quotes twice: <i><a href="https://amzn.to/37GCVtA">Twelfth Night</a></i>. In <i>The Sign of the Four</i>, Holmes concludes, "All is well that ends well." This is from from Act IV, Scene 4. And in "The Empty House," Holmes states "'Journeys end in lovers meetings,' as the old play says," from Act II, Scene 3.<br /><br />The reason the date was chosen is that in Christianity, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_6">January 6th</a> is the Feast of the Epiphany, or officially the twelfth day of Christmas. I suppose if we were being truly technical about it, the twelfth night of Christmas would fall on January 5th...<br /><br />In addition, William S. Baring-Gould in his <a href="https://amzn.to/2QrZ4G3"><i>The Annotated Sherlock Holmes</i></a>, posited that because Holmes was a little cranky on the morning of January 7th — the date on which <i>The Valley of Fear</i> began — he had a hangover, induced by birthday celebrations the evening prior.<br /><div><br /></div><div>And why 169? Scholars have fixed the year of Sherlock Holmes's birth to 1854 by virtue of a line in "His Last Bow" when he was described as "a tall gaunt man of sixty."<span style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-family: "merriweather"; font-size: 21px;"><br /></span><br /><h3><span style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-family: "merriweather"; font-size: 21px;">Additional Thoughts</span></h3>In an episode of <a href="https://www.sherlockholmespodcast.com" target="_blank">Trifles</a>, our weekly show where we discuss some of the minutiae in the Sherlock Holmes stories, we cover this in greater detail, and with some additional research material. Do check it out on the podcast streaming service of your choice, the embedded file below, or at <a href="https://ihose.co/trifles210">ihose.co/trifles210</a>.</div><div> <br /><iframe allow="autoplay" frameborder="no" height="166" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/960247957&color=%23947454&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true" width="100%"></iframe><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/sherlockholmes-trifles" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank" title="Sherlock Holmes: Trifles">Sherlock Holmes: Trifles</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/sherlockholmes-trifles/sherlock-holmess-birthday" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank" title="Sherlock Holmes's Birthday">Sherlock Holmes's Birthday</a></div><br /><br />And by all means, share the news that today is Sherlock Holmes's birthday. But whatever you do, don't try to throw him a surprise party. It's an exercise in futility.<br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" class="b-hbp-video b-uploaded" frameborder="0" height="315" id="BLOGGER-video-1d96bcd053384a14-8851" mozallowfullscreen="mozallowfullscreen" src="https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxLzJwIHZa0FAoFEOLzOlSuQMGkJt516AagTl3wK8VU9DW9GxuGas6rSX6W8NjP2_e4J21_61wKoJE2Tn0Hf_zcVFcnxufVNEg1cSCyDKNSCpIk3er59CCpD28TWZ-fr-aATN0" webkitallowfullscreen="webkitallowfullscreen" width="560"></iframe></div><br /></div><br />We hope you'll take a moment and wish Sherlock Holmes a happy birthday in your own way. If you'd like to join in here, please feel free to leave a birthday comment below.<br /><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>

Happy 169th Birthday, Sherlock Holmes

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The Best Age to Read Sherlock Holmes

<h4 style="text-align: center;"> “shown himself for over twenty years” [NOBL]</h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdpZjoNY88n_BM2k_II5-atel69X6_lH0oLhHJWpMQ-M9Wint6ZP2fzEL-57auKyrRidyAL37PmEVnVIoOjk5Cil3J9RMgZ4aGQTeix-bNmLeYirdHQq7kX5JKjTFZGZW42dlkmJEkbWz4FHKKvZQtJGDsztSHgRddJKiaSbLlx91Wm-wFF-wfSaXNUw/s1828/Rick%20Rubin.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="890" data-original-width="1828" height="312" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdpZjoNY88n_BM2k_II5-atel69X6_lH0oLhHJWpMQ-M9Wint6ZP2fzEL-57auKyrRidyAL37PmEVnVIoOjk5Cil3J9RMgZ4aGQTeix-bNmLeYirdHQq7kX5JKjTFZGZW42dlkmJEkbWz4FHKKvZQtJGDsztSHgRddJKiaSbLlx91Wm-wFF-wfSaXNUw/w640-h312/Rick%20Rubin.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p>Invariably, the first question we ask our interview guests on the <a href="https://pod.link/ihearofsherlock" target="_blank"><i>I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere</i> podcast</a> is “When did you first meet Sherlock Holmes?”</p><p>While the same question may be tiresome, the variety in the answers we receive is not.</p><p>Some have been influenced by popular media, depending on their age and viewing habits: Basil Rathbone on Saturday matinee showings on TV, the Granada series starring Jeremy Brett, <i>The Great Mouse Detective</i>, <i>Sherlock </i>— everyone's Sherlock Holmes on screen varies.</p><p>Then there are those who were introduced from a couple of short stories in school, most often "The Red-Headed League" and "The Speckled Band."</p><p>And of course, the lucky few who discovered William Baring-Gould's <i><a href="https://amzn.to/3GByrII" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Annotated Sherlock Holmes</a></i>.</p><p>How we envy those who read the stories for the very first time! </p><p><br /></p><p>Which brings us to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/29/books/review/rick-rubin-by-the-book-interview.html?unlocked_article_code=1ju8UBZjMtfCfIU2UI1sv8spLgm2lVDewd_hbuLEeouuT3xwprsIVLVRSbDs2JIQ9zCNspDuXGBi8sWTvlNxp9vpPsbD6DI7lk_HeWe2Fyxs7F11jf_Fmo6XLd7esA8sklOcOLtEYSDeBEojksFkLm60qdF4rYKl-QtR_Tjbxdl3g1ILfCH0QIPuuJ6_12kFRyMUuvANYW72EQBon4laDM0y4mna8fmAUOPHspV_oEb-bR97pCqabQtG_rPwTeJEQbgP7x3IhLglF4GRM-LuXhU9z6sal5ZnjAR4wncAmz13I5gHtLii6Xv0faLbZT-CeMYub3X9vw5AL8gs-f4vn0T30q7W2i4ewO9d6vj4_g&smid=share-url" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">a recent "By the Book" column in <i>The New York Times</i></a>, in which Rick Rubin was interviewed. [Link to gift article]</p><p>He was asked:</p><p><b></b></p><blockquote><p><b>What book should everybody read before the age of 21?</b></p><p><i><b>Sherlock Holmes is great, the earlier the better. The stories are engaging and they train readers to look deeply into all they see. A great primer for awareness practice.</b></i></p></blockquote><p></p><p><br /></p><p>We certainly don't object to Rubin's recommendation. He's absolutely correct that the stories are rich in detail, although we don't all see the same things that Holmes did until after they're explained. Or we at least don't observe.</p><p>But we'd also argue that Sherlock Holmes stories should be read later in life as well. For it is only then that we can appreciate the depth of friendship, the nuances of relationships, the societal inequities, the more significant elements of the human psyche that are at work. It's part of what we talk about on the <a href="https://www.sherlockholmespodcast.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Trifles podcast</a>.</p><p>The Sherlock Holmes stories tell us so much about life; it takes living a certain amount of life to appreciate the depth and breadth of it all.</p><p><br /></p><p>We'd be remiss if we didn't mention this truth about rereading books:</p><blockquote><p><i><b>“When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before.”</b> — Clifton Fadiman</i></p></blockquote><div>Clifton Fadiman was an intellectual, author, editor, and radio and television personality. And he ran in the same orbit as Christopher Morley, the founder of the Baker Street Irregulars.</div><div><br /></div><div>Fadiman hosted <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_Please" target="_blank">Information, Please!</a></i>, a radio quiz show to which <a href="https://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2008/11/some-information-silv_16.html#.Y7PIKHZKjb0" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Christopher Morley made occasional visits</a>. Since Fadiman was the book review editor for <i>The New Yorker</i>, that made Morley's appearances a near-certainty. It didn't hurt that Fadiman had been a guest at <a href="https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,885484,00.html" target="_blank">the 1944 Trilogy Dinner</a> of the Baker Street Irregulars.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>When is the right time to pick up a Sherlock Holmes book?</div><div><br /></div><div>Whenever you feel like it.</div><div><br /></div><div>And yes, read Sherlock Holmes by the age of 21 if you please. But read him when you're 71 or 81 or 101. </div><div><br /></div><div>And at all ages in between.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><h3 style="text-align: left;"><i>Further information:</i></h3><div>If you'd like to hear about the Beacon Society and its efforts to encourage others to introduce Sherlock Holmes to young people, check out <a href="https://ihose.co/ihose183" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Episode 183: The Beacon Society</a>.</div><div><br /></div><div><iframe allow="autoplay" frameborder="no" height="166" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/736142848&color=%2302ae05&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true" width="100%"></iframe><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/ihearofsherlock" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere">I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ihearofsherlock/the-beacon-society" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="The Beacon Society">The Beacon Society</a></div></div><br />

The Best Age to Read Sherlock Holmes

 “shown himself for over twenty years” [NOBL] Invariably, the first question we ask our interview guests on the I Hear of Sherlock Everywher...

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by Scott Monty