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Episode 308: The BSI Midwest Canonical Conclave

<h4 style="text-align: center;">“grazed the subclavian artery” [STUD] </h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnyQwB0-ElktBQRsNEeEr-ycjYLW9fteOKAgonc002ISIA4F0YErZnVqmL641-Jnvi-gDwgY4MxaupuHLnbtNfwP-FYS_yqYd-Hh3EDkfAkO0-rJnTH3hhCbPd6NceILo8uKkDwwVcG0pZhKTgroVTOqzDRmRmHski0ueO27DNhJ85JQ599Gqo_adT8Gif/s1200/ihearofsherlock308%20header.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="813" data-original-width="1200" height="434" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnyQwB0-ElktBQRsNEeEr-ycjYLW9fteOKAgonc002ISIA4F0YErZnVqmL641-Jnvi-gDwgY4MxaupuHLnbtNfwP-FYS_yqYd-Hh3EDkfAkO0-rJnTH3hhCbPd6NceILo8uKkDwwVcG0pZhKTgroVTOqzDRmRmHski0ueO27DNhJ85JQ599Gqo_adT8Gif/w640-h434/ihearofsherlock308%20header.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><p>While the Baker Street Irregulars is the most well-known of Sherlockian societies, it is by no means the only one — nor even the most important. There are gatherings happening every week, in person and virtually, of Sherlockian societies.</p><p>And just like the Sherlockian societies that sprouted up in those early years of the hobby, Steve Doyle, BSI ("<i>The Western Morning News</i>") thought it might be helpful to bring some of them together in a spirit of building Sherlockian community and creating connections.</p><p>And that's taking the form of the inaugural BSI Canonical Conclave, taking place in Indianapolis on April 26, 2025. We talk with Steve about what we might expect there and what he expects to come from this unique gathering. Whether you're attending or not, he shares vital information for your own activities.</p><p>We have some Sherlockian society events we share in "<b>The Learned Societies</b>" segment, Madeline Quiñones tells us about another Sherlock Holmes podcast in "<b>A Chance of Listening</b>," and the <b>Canonical Couplet</b> quiz tests your Sherlock Holmes knowledge with something from the IHOSE vaults for one lucky winner.  Send your answer to comment @ ihearofsherlock .com by April 14, 2025 at 11:59 a.m. EST. 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Episode 308: The BSI Midwest Canonical Conclave

“grazed the subclavian artery” [STUD] While the Baker Street Irregulars is the most well-known of Sherlockian societies, it is by no means ...

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by Scott Monty

Baker Street Elementary – I Swear to God...

<h4 style="text-align: center;">“dared only whisper their religious opinions with bated breath” [STUD] </h4><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDuAPk9UbTTAyDPB6ffMdK0HE_ykQ1G4opIu8v5HFu2RRAPiFGqvpjym0lEOLX-y7YQlfnr4qBNCkBN6jIpT-rLLftNp0LU2l_pOZPLLCJ23jJKPBcVcs71_l2N2cenpSSrm2uhquAvW9TRnURsECYRzvNH6BXq178Ha2nSEFuu2e8AfjvVpOr-AYYP3Qx/s1365/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20198.1.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1365" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDuAPk9UbTTAyDPB6ffMdK0HE_ykQ1G4opIu8v5HFu2RRAPiFGqvpjym0lEOLX-y7YQlfnr4qBNCkBN6jIpT-rLLftNp0LU2l_pOZPLLCJ23jJKPBcVcs71_l2N2cenpSSrm2uhquAvW9TRnURsECYRzvNH6BXq178Ha2nSEFuu2e8AfjvVpOr-AYYP3Qx/w640-h360/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20198.1.PNG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div>Was Sherlock Holmes religious? That was something we contemplated together with Henry T. Folsom, BSI ("The Golden Pince-Nez") in <i>Trifles</i> Episode 427 on his Morley-Montgomery Award-winning article "<a href="https://www.sherlockholmespodcast.com/2025/03/episode-427-my-biblical-knowledge-is.html" target="_blank">My Biblical Knowledge is a Trifle Rusty</a>." [Listen below]</div><div><br /></div><div>In considering whether Holmes subscribed to any Eastern or Western religion, Folsom made it clear that Holmes was familiar with a number of religions, but was more of an agnostic than an atheist. And of course, his famous "rose soliloquy" was indicative of his believe in some Higher Power:</div><div><blockquote><div>“There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion,” said he, leaning with his back against the shutters. “It can be built up as an exact science by the reasoner. Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers our desires, our food, are all really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its color are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.”</div></blockquote></div><div>Religious aspects pop up throughout the Canon, from the heavy hand of the Mormons (STUD) to Holmes serving as a witness to a wedding in the first short story (SCAN) to his claim that “my Biblical knowledge is a trifle rusty” (CROO), it is a constant drum-beat.</div><div><br /></div><div>But isn't it interesting that of his many disguises, <i>two</i> of them were religious in nature: “an amiable and simple-minded Nonconformist clergyman” (SCAN) and “a venerable Italian priest” (FINA).</div><div><br /></div><div>Was he overly familiar with these professions? Or were was he able to get cassocks in bulk from his costume supplier? </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><iframe allowfullscreen="" data-dashlane-classification="other" data-dashlane-frameid="7506" data-dashlane-rid="38094c7cd0071a92" height="192" mozallowfullscreen="true" msallowfullscreen="true" oallowfullscreen="true" scrolling="no" src="https://play.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/35555380/height/192/theme/modern/size/large/thumbnail/yes/custom-color/1a1f21/time-start/00:00:00/playlist-height/200/direction/backward/download/yes/font-color/FFFFFF" style="border: none;" title="Embed Player" webkitallowfullscreen="true" width="100%"></iframe><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Here's some Sunday humor from the boys at Baker Street Elementary...</div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBuhGeurXn3qC9Ni9NlTGm7MVbh3tMK0maiEuJUKXKFEv5nLS4Vy_qOemNhk5OTtoRoKJONba54VVABASGJ5WyHVGSChc1j-LZwPibqV24qbRTcz1xVv_mUdntW_VqZFXuOOsoj2CQVH-sdy1r5YM9szPSrKKnjVGHW9VqLGfQThk0kqSMTuq266Bp4ikj/s1365/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20198.2.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1365" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBuhGeurXn3qC9Ni9NlTGm7MVbh3tMK0maiEuJUKXKFEv5nLS4Vy_qOemNhk5OTtoRoKJONba54VVABASGJ5WyHVGSChc1j-LZwPibqV24qbRTcz1xVv_mUdntW_VqZFXuOOsoj2CQVH-sdy1r5YM9szPSrKKnjVGHW9VqLGfQThk0kqSMTuq266Bp4ikj/w640-h360/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20198.2.PNG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjD3aVTN0ZcS8z7VOXHGi1ousUxpq6h11xIkbJqCsTNIM9_9XFQNAPun-AU0N6trUQICFne2WZ1STMAEAzdh1WA8F0rUoeijW1PhA-5cnZ92NVzzFf9GLJM1mAc0szbf90DqCeBY2OdpJOytnfv4xWobyUrkaHsOUgPKlupVAxze2-QY-mP7ojjgX8nfTtu/s1365/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20198.3.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1365" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjD3aVTN0ZcS8z7VOXHGi1ousUxpq6h11xIkbJqCsTNIM9_9XFQNAPun-AU0N6trUQICFne2WZ1STMAEAzdh1WA8F0rUoeijW1PhA-5cnZ92NVzzFf9GLJM1mAc0szbf90DqCeBY2OdpJOytnfv4xWobyUrkaHsOUgPKlupVAxze2-QY-mP7ojjgX8nfTtu/w640-h360/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20198.3.PNG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div></div></div><div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><i>Baker Street Elementary</i></b><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"> 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. An archive of all previous episodes can be viewed at the <a href="https://www.dfw-sherlock.org/baker-street-elementary.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Baker Street Elementary website</a></span><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://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGyHxoov2AdCNzI-sA382WHyzmCYKmU5vuVxxUUbwgmzd_zESpxNTWBoDo-0BOUVmZPf0EpIOXFT9y59il288HBvx1-_JJJXxHhZAn2orzWJPWbYZasKlLBplbQMHDaY9thgs_w1diI7ch/s1600/Baker+Street+Elementary.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://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGyHxoov2AdCNzI-sA382WHyzmCYKmU5vuVxxUUbwgmzd_zESpxNTWBoDo-0BOUVmZPf0EpIOXFT9y59il288HBvx1-_JJJXxHhZAn2orzWJPWbYZasKlLBplbQMHDaY9thgs_w1diI7ch/s640/Baker+Street+Elementary.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><br />

Baker Street Elementary – I Swear to God...

“dared only whisper their religious opinions with bated breath” [STUD] Was Sherlock Holmes religious? That was something we contemplated to...

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by I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere

Episode 307: The Evolution of 221B Con

<h4 style="text-align: center;">“able to evolve from their own inner consciousness” [STUD] </h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMLPrr7cn5vTeO1I-x7TahZMoxS0qTaN4q6_synaTm1kLaqN6dLuvC6csWOXCWqlNbwGN55HFNqi2yQGWvOQxGYiYQBNAeG7kdfq5PbGNDknVN-tKyPf5Z1mx9fJ74J_hsL1xRVH1NHBHi9Ui2lg-cxOaOUiXInkX7Oe74puomJbu9D2jJ7WpLP7Zw1b8/s1000/ihearofsherlock307%20header.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="1000" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMLPrr7cn5vTeO1I-x7TahZMoxS0qTaN4q6_synaTm1kLaqN6dLuvC6csWOXCWqlNbwGN55HFNqi2yQGWvOQxGYiYQBNAeG7kdfq5PbGNDknVN-tKyPf5Z1mx9fJ74J_hsL1xRVH1NHBHi9Ui2lg-cxOaOUiXInkX7Oe74puomJbu9D2jJ7WpLP7Zw1b8/w640-h480/ihearofsherlock307%20header.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><p>Now in its 12th year, 221B Con has become a mainstay of annual Sherlockian events, drawing people from all over the world to Atlanta every April. It was founded as a response to <i>Sherlock</i> on BBC, but has expanded beyond that to include the original stories as well as all forms of media.</p><p>Last year, the founders announced that this year would be the final 221B Con. As we narrow in on that date, regular attendee and volunteer Johanna Draper Carlson isn't convinced that has to be the case. But the future isn't quite clear at this point.</p><p>We talk with Johanna about what's changed over the years, how it compares to other major "Cons," what to expect in April 2025, and what she hopes the future will bring. </p><p>We have some Sherlockian society events we share in "<b>The Learned Societies</b>" segment, Madeline Quiñones tells us about another Sherlock Holmes podcast in "<b>A Chance of Listening</b>," and the <b>Canonical Couplet</b> quiz tests your Sherlock Holmes knowledge with something from the IHOSE vaults for one lucky winner.  Send your answer to comment @ ihearofsherlock .com by March 29, 2025 at 11:59 a.m. EST. 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“able to evolve from their own inner consciousness” [STUD] Now in its 12th year, 221B Con has become a mainstay of annual Sherlockian event...

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by Scott Monty

Baker Street Elementary – What's in a Name?

<h4 style="text-align: center;">“should you rather that I sent James off to bed?” [TWIS] </h4><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLqMhAGGSTRT96NuIPoXsauOGGJd-awcU7yxU6FjZdZGNEaPx2zFaB2_jKwAuhsTwFjEoovlT9vXJG7U1iBKm4hLx6JmCELdgbjZ7hTyEDJewGtHfzjvt7H2ONBZkZFXt59_5ik8uspHQqxWyXfM67rh6g5gcUMNLIdvX88yuvMAAiAgPO89jIECGW09Mh/s1365/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20197.1.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1365" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLqMhAGGSTRT96NuIPoXsauOGGJd-awcU7yxU6FjZdZGNEaPx2zFaB2_jKwAuhsTwFjEoovlT9vXJG7U1iBKm4hLx6JmCELdgbjZ7hTyEDJewGtHfzjvt7H2ONBZkZFXt59_5ik8uspHQqxWyXfM67rh6g5gcUMNLIdvX88yuvMAAiAgPO89jIECGW09Mh/w640-h360/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20197.1.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div>One of the most vexing and early discrepancies in the Sherlock Holmes canon occurs in "The Man With the Twisted Lip," when Mrs. Watson refers to her husband as "James."</div><div><div></div><blockquote><div>“It was very sweet of you to come. Now, you must have some wine and water, and sit here comfortably and tell us all about it. Or should you rather that I sent James off to bed?”</div><div><br /></div><div>“Oh, no, no! I want the doctor’s advice and help, too. It’s about Isa. He has not been home for two days. I am so frightened about him!”</div></blockquote><div></div></div><div><br /></div><div>Having clearly introduced us to himself as "John H. Watson, M.D., late of the Army Medical Department" in <i>A Study in Scarlet</i>, it strains credulity that the good doctor would have misprinted his own name. So what does that leave us? </div><div><br /></div><div>Dorothy Sayers famously came up with what is probably the most clever and elegant solution when she suggested that Mrs. Watson was referring to her husband by his middle name, as something of a term of endearment.</div><div><br /></div><div>"But wait," we hear you say. "His middle name started with 'H'!"</div><div><br /></div><div>Yes, and that's where Sayers' solution is perfect. She suggested that Watson's middle name was <i>Hamish</i>, which is a Scottish version of James.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">We have a companion Trifles episode on this topic: <a href="https://www.sherlockholmespodcast.com/2022/08/episode-294-james-watson-md.html" target="_blank">Episode 294 - James Watson, M.D.</a>, in which we discuss Tom Cynkin's look at the matter:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><iframe allowfullscreen="" data-dashlane-classification="other" data-dashlane-frameid="2602" data-dashlane-rid="300b77ddde01c66e" height="192" mozallowfullscreen="true" msallowfullscreen="true" oallowfullscreen="true" scrolling="no" src="https://play.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/24086268/height/192/theme/modern/size/large/thumbnail/yes/custom-color/3a4e59/time-start/00:00:00/playlist-height/200/direction/backward/download/yes/font-color/FFFFFF" style="border: none;" title="Embed Player" webkitallowfullscreen="true" width="100%"></iframe><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">It's literally another Case of Identity. Speaking of identifying oneself, let's see what the boys at BSE are up to today...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEGGJ53qEQ6pI-JWU5RYN4_4o6X8yVU88mOnQ3RnrijESfRTrNIe-5Yu4RNX68ZikKnZW31UQ1uEEzJW8gg6n94fwKYO38Rg27r8oDaF5dO45JEHu2QQV_FglBFXcdcWdj9gXKOuKnB1mxLC-DiE1z1KMk5WnUBK2G2Nzx3rnN10qmUIHBsXHTXPvB4uiC/s1365/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20197.2.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1365" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEGGJ53qEQ6pI-JWU5RYN4_4o6X8yVU88mOnQ3RnrijESfRTrNIe-5Yu4RNX68ZikKnZW31UQ1uEEzJW8gg6n94fwKYO38Rg27r8oDaF5dO45JEHu2QQV_FglBFXcdcWdj9gXKOuKnB1mxLC-DiE1z1KMk5WnUBK2G2Nzx3rnN10qmUIHBsXHTXPvB4uiC/w640-h360/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20197.2.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiv7cQ9A8ch-aiUGVvQzZpiPbqZc_ygW9dpIG3UXlYcx74hw3Oi05EI1Td6xsP63ZVSWJ_29qO9HGuyQVc9TW89ta65EkHvG2IR7QsksCeMEOty7huvAJpZcDF32GV5wC_SLinl8NJ4wQZl1c9GwvmXZHceRnbr7PCmh1V2_22-GEvn8o4kFyp-KJl2wcLa/s1365/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20197.3.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1365" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiv7cQ9A8ch-aiUGVvQzZpiPbqZc_ygW9dpIG3UXlYcx74hw3Oi05EI1Td6xsP63ZVSWJ_29qO9HGuyQVc9TW89ta65EkHvG2IR7QsksCeMEOty7huvAJpZcDF32GV5wC_SLinl8NJ4wQZl1c9GwvmXZHceRnbr7PCmh1V2_22-GEvn8o4kFyp-KJl2wcLa/w640-h360/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20197.3.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaZ_sujUZhBlyJ3KxNj7ny-B4ZW29JtDp1ZaK39Z96YkgI_zHxDkXZ8LwrjMbkzSeEWAYkghclmVvNlbCjFgT6l-L-6LRXuhD0s5991FaOJu8TxBjiBGqi9ySQGQLHJPg6OYxIV0foKRwvS-B-hCmmHKcemyrbV15hgGXa85Q9VFYVKYfwvYabucunHPi6/s1365/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20197.4.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1365" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaZ_sujUZhBlyJ3KxNj7ny-B4ZW29JtDp1ZaK39Z96YkgI_zHxDkXZ8LwrjMbkzSeEWAYkghclmVvNlbCjFgT6l-L-6LRXuhD0s5991FaOJu8TxBjiBGqi9ySQGQLHJPg6OYxIV0foKRwvS-B-hCmmHKcemyrbV15hgGXa85Q9VFYVKYfwvYabucunHPi6/w640-h360/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20197.4.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div></div></div><div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><i>Baker Street Elementary</i></b><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"> 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. An archive of all previous episodes can be viewed at the <a href="https://www.dfw-sherlock.org/baker-street-elementary.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Baker Street Elementary website</a></span><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://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGyHxoov2AdCNzI-sA382WHyzmCYKmU5vuVxxUUbwgmzd_zESpxNTWBoDo-0BOUVmZPf0EpIOXFT9y59il288HBvx1-_JJJXxHhZAn2orzWJPWbYZasKlLBplbQMHDaY9thgs_w1diI7ch/s1600/Baker+Street+Elementary.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://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGyHxoov2AdCNzI-sA382WHyzmCYKmU5vuVxxUUbwgmzd_zESpxNTWBoDo-0BOUVmZPf0EpIOXFT9y59il288HBvx1-_JJJXxHhZAn2orzWJPWbYZasKlLBplbQMHDaY9thgs_w1diI7ch/s640/Baker+Street+Elementary.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><br /><br />