Episode 152: Holmes & Watson

<h4 style="text-align: center;"> “the well-wrought crisis of a play” [SIXN] </h4> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvIzgSW2cLbwdAeu-Z6103RGSVTuttKsQLWLHNyqQ_KM8A1K09UNvymkSchoQpuyRT5J4coTG19KGZ_cYMUcj2cOtCqVWL_7DVwsIvVLy9KDQ2VqQmrcuuHlPNI2Xb_4UmDIBB5cFDqQge/s1600/Holmes+and+Watson.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1344" data-original-width="1600" height="536" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvIzgSW2cLbwdAeu-Z6103RGSVTuttKsQLWLHNyqQ_KM8A1K09UNvymkSchoQpuyRT5J4coTG19KGZ_cYMUcj2cOtCqVWL_7DVwsIvVLy9KDQ2VqQmrcuuHlPNI2Xb_4UmDIBB5cFDqQge/s640/Holmes+and+Watson.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <iframe allowfullscreen="" height="90" mozallowfullscreen="" msallowfullscreen="" oallowfullscreen="" scrolling="no" src="//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/7049343/height/90/theme/custom/autoplay/no/autonext/no/thumbnail/yes/preload/no/no_addthis/no/direction/backward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/000000/" style="border: none;" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="100%"></iframe><br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> Lee Eric Shackleford is a man of many talents. So many, in fact, that we don't have time to get into all of them in a single episode.<br /> <br /> Suffice it to say that between his play Holmes & Watson, his secret desire (and success!) in writing for <i>Star Trek</i>, and the web series <i>Herlock</i>, we find much to cover with Lee. A Sherlockian from his earliest years, we go on a journey with Lee from his fascination with Sherlock Holmes that spanned from the Basil Rathbone era to the Nicholas Meyer reincarnations during Lee's formative years.<br /> <br /> Lee took a one-man play and his own interest in acting, and turned it inward to focus on the finer points of the relationship between Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson in his insightful and exciting play. 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Episode 152: Holmes & Watson

“the well-wrought crisis of a play” [SIXN]  Lee Eric Shackleford is a man of many talents. So many, in fact, that we d...

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by Scott Monty

What You Missed on 'Trifles' in August

<h4 style="text-align: center;"> "a trifle beyond me" [GREE] </h4> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQy0hwK5k3rHqS0DBzk2FhBFzcSVocLN1HwUlXePZidfhc_MMOAMIax7bxFi5qpLGmdaYPuBwCiNdK5L5mru97-1cJD2kYnM444sXPtlL6u8mZL6Hld0XKeda5DEfIhpKxJigj6V0PrKOI/s1600/Trifles+-+Social+sharing.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="862" data-original-width="1600" height="344" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQy0hwK5k3rHqS0DBzk2FhBFzcSVocLN1HwUlXePZidfhc_MMOAMIax7bxFi5qpLGmdaYPuBwCiNdK5L5mru97-1cJD2kYnM444sXPtlL6u8mZL6Hld0XKeda5DEfIhpKxJigj6V0PrKOI/s640/Trifles+-+Social+sharing.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <br /> We hope you've had a chance to hear our <a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2018/06/happy-anniversary.html#.Wyh07qczrb0" target="_blank">11 year-long show</a>, in which we interview notable Sherlockians who are doing their part to keep the memory of Sherlock Holmes green. The program <b>I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere</b> has evolved over the years, but we're on a steady cadence of long-form interviews on the 15th and 30th of every month.<br /> <br /> But over on <a href="http://www.sherlockholmespodcast.com/" target="_blank">Trifles</a>, we're doing something different: every week we take about 15 minutes to talk about one or two issues that we've noticed within the Sherlock Holmes stories. It's an approach that we hope brings more people into our fold who are new to Sherlock Holmes and are fascinated with the details within the story, or who may have some questions about what they read.<br /> <br /> <br /> And now, on with the recap of <a href="http://www.sherlockholmespodcast.com/2018/08/" target="_blank">our August shows</a>.<br /> <br /> <h3> <b>August Update</b></h3> If you've listened to more than one episode of Trifles, just a word of caution: don't skip the intro or the final few seconds of each show! We vary the introductions and we have a different closing quote on every episode.<br /> <br /> We currently live in an age where smoker are something of pariahs. But Sherlock Holmes is probably the most famous smoker in literature. And as you can imagine, his smoking habits ranged widely. In Episode 83, we explore the incidence of cigars, cigarettes and pipes in <a href="http://ihose.co/trifles83" target="_blank">Smoke if You Got 'Em</a>.<br /> <br /> <div style="text-align: left;"> <iframe frameborder="0" height="200" scrolling="no" src="https://embed.radiopublic.com/e?if=sherlock-holmes-trifles-GqnV0O&ge=s1!7e7e2ceae5b376d86753085188e93f02b235787b" width="100%"></iframe><br /></div> <br /> <br /> <br /> On to Episode 84, where we continued our monthly feature "<b>Inside 221B</b>" that looks at some of the physical objects we find in the flat at 221B Baker Street. This time, it's a matter of <a href="http://ihose.co/trifles84" target="_blank">The Morocco Case</a> in which Holmes kept his cocaine syringe. Was it actually from Morocco?<br /> <br /> <div style="text-align: left;"> <iframe frameborder="0" height="200" scrolling="no" src="https://embed.radiopublic.com/e?if=sherlock-holmes-trifles-GqnV0O&ge=s1!56862aee2adc182bacf6a52ecdb8ff980bf6ebb1" width="100%"></iframe><br /></div> <br /> <br /> Our next regular monthly feature, "<b>Unpublished Cases,</b>" has to do with tales that didn't make it to the public. Episode 85 is all about <a href="http://ihose.co/trifles85" target="_blank">The Sign of Four</a>. But wait, you say. That was a published case. You're correct. But it contained hints of more than one untold tale...<br /> <br /> <div style="text-align: left;"> <iframe frameborder="0" height="200" scrolling="no" src="https://embed.radiopublic.com/e?if=sherlock-holmes-trifles-GqnV0O&ge=s1!cb9208104262aa16d600c294beda602cabfacf6c" width="100%"></iframe><br /></div> <br /> <br /> Next up, we take a moment to fortify ourselves in Episode 86 with <a href="http://ihose.co/trifles86" target="_blank">Wine & Spirits</a>, as we see just how much of an oenophile Sherlock Holmes was.<br /> <br /> <div style="text-align: left;"> <iframe frameborder="0" height="200" scrolling="no" src="https://embed.radiopublic.com/e?if=sherlock-holmes-trifles-GqnV0O&ge=s1!238016932f1a2809c9dbcd1a51702f1325080cdb" width="100%"></iframe><br /></div> <br /> <br /> And finally, in Episode 87, it's a look at <a href="http://ihose.co/trifles87" target="_blank">The Good Doctor</a>. What kind of medical practice did Watson run (admittedly there were many)? And why was his medicine of choice typically brandy?<br /> <br /> <div style="text-align: left;"> <iframe frameborder="0" height="200" scrolling="no" src="https://embed.radiopublic.com/e?if=sherlock-holmes-trifles-GqnV0O&ge=s1!165c15d99b987519e1821afbb903514824d169bd" width="100%"></iframe><br /></div> <br /> <br /> <br /> <h3> <b>A Question for You</b></h3> How are we doing so far? Is there anything that's been burning your mind about the stories that you think we should discuss? We'd love your suggestions! Simply email us at trifles@ihearofsherlock.com and we'll add it to our queue of topics.<br /> <br /> Also, if you like what you hear, please subscribe to <a href="http://sherlockholmespodcast.com/">Trifles</a> via the podcast provider of your choice, or to the email updates.<br /> <br /> <br /> <i>If you'd like to learn more about Tom Richmond, the talented artist behind the show's logo, you can hear his story in <a href="http://ihose.co/ihose65">Episode 65: Art in the Blood</a>.</i><br /> <br /> <div> </div> <br /> <div style="font-family: "times new roman"; margin: 0px;"> --</div>

What You Missed on 'Trifles' in August

"a trifle beyond me" [GREE]  We hope you've had a chance to hear our  11 year-long show , in which we interview notable S...

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by Scott Monty

Baker Street Elementary – Analyze This

<h4 style="text-align: center;"> “volumes of poetry” [ENGR] </h4> <div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGyHxoov2AdCNzI-sA382WHyzmCYKmU5vuVxxUUbwgmzd_zESpxNTWBoDo-0BOUVmZPf0EpIOXFT9y59il288HBvx1-_JJJXxHhZAn2orzWJPWbYZasKlLBplbQMHDaY9thgs_w1diI7ch/s1600/Baker+Street+Elementary.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><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></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> Over the years, we've seen a number of creative approaches to Sherlockian material through poetry.<br /> <br /> For example, at one <a href="http://ihose.co/ihose11" target="_blank">Autumn in Baker Street</a>, we heard <i>The Hound of the Baskervilles</i> recited in the style of Robert Service. Isaac Asimov is legendary for his <i><a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2011/06/out-poetry-watson-reti_1.html#.W5SC5-gzrb2" target="_blank">Sherlockian Limericks</a></i>. Each BSI Weekend we look forward to the annual year-in-review poem in doggerel, written and performed by Al Rosenblatt, BSI ("Inspector Bradstreet") and Betsy Rosenblatt, BSI ("Lucy Ferrier").<br /> <br /> And then there are the classics. Vincent Starrett's immortal "<a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2013/10/celebrate-national-poetry-day.html#.W5SScegzrb0" target="_blank">221B</a>," which gave us the now-legendary phrase "it's always 1895," and is often recited at the conclusion to Sherlockian society meetings. Or another favorite meeting-closer, Bill Schweikert's moving "<a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2015/11/when-i-spend-long-evening-with-holmes.html" target="_blank">A Long Evening With Holmes</a>." And the elusive and mysterious poetess laureate of the BSI, <a href="http://ihose.co/ihose135" target="_blank">Helene Yuhasova</a>.<br /> <br /> Yes, we have plenty of poetry that touches on Sherlock Holmes. It's no mystery that when we link the heart and the mind, the magic happens – just like at Baker Street Elementary...<br /> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDyh6AZIo7O3e9hbNVq_DS11H19J5TOpoesQ0L9Jc0K1l2VX7HGMk1XfaRm6O71vyxbfUkwhyL1Y9U2Ljwebm_YOMMG-kCRgcSCj_QY8f64H_A0tnvPnGE-nC3QHv_vInKQwWSugKswNx8/s1600/Baker+Street+Elementary+41.1.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/AVvXsEjDyh6AZIo7O3e9hbNVq_DS11H19J5TOpoesQ0L9Jc0K1l2VX7HGMk1XfaRm6O71vyxbfUkwhyL1Y9U2Ljwebm_YOMMG-kCRgcSCj_QY8f64H_A0tnvPnGE-nC3QHv_vInKQwWSugKswNx8/s640/Baker+Street+Elementary+41.1.JPG" width="640" /></a></div> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUYbRXSgox27rW8QyaMNki9AMtBa7rnEtpVLr0cZtgqpwmkZwl9fGRfPUOqlATRalgjRHgDn_wWL83zusAIh9kU40PeAT9M14NIPltj3utatwYMhvzkeei3o0O-rmJgt1n9kJtDZYFaDX4/s1600/Baker+Street+Elementary+41.2.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/AVvXsEgUYbRXSgox27rW8QyaMNki9AMtBa7rnEtpVLr0cZtgqpwmkZwl9fGRfPUOqlATRalgjRHgDn_wWL83zusAIh9kU40PeAT9M14NIPltj3utatwYMhvzkeei3o0O-rmJgt1n9kJtDZYFaDX4/s640/Baker+Street+Elementary+41.2.JPG" width="640" /></a></div> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3_KvTyoiLqdzRItp5uGbkZst29jLaSV_sggNaRWzq8I4MpwTU0lJTiTA4dda1L-k7mr2JeMhF3-XR8u32Sidg9IG2SEr7hC9_B5WP2kKBUGgl8rqjke4l8ZxdxApv2enmj9dCFHPxDaEK/s1600/Baker+Street+Elementary+41.3.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/AVvXsEh3_KvTyoiLqdzRItp5uGbkZst29jLaSV_sggNaRWzq8I4MpwTU0lJTiTA4dda1L-k7mr2JeMhF3-XR8u32Sidg9IG2SEr7hC9_B5WP2kKBUGgl8rqjke4l8ZxdxApv2enmj9dCFHPxDaEK/s640/Baker+Street+Elementary+41.3.JPG" width="640" /></a></div> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqvNmjbj04GJJ2uXHL1rtErCxSRoGEWMhHmrAzpLonEX9QfDDiXI4JDBFtHW1rPnMkWYndHJLOEfGnmj5ZXS8gFRzaO7xLKvp0IR7K76kVpiWhZcwuXNq7bzqUMxF1CkAK8aba6DBFl70_/s1600/Baker+Street+Elementary+41.4.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/AVvXsEjqvNmjbj04GJJ2uXHL1rtErCxSRoGEWMhHmrAzpLonEX9QfDDiXI4JDBFtHW1rPnMkWYndHJLOEfGnmj5ZXS8gFRzaO7xLKvp0IR7K76kVpiWhZcwuXNq7bzqUMxF1CkAK8aba6DBFl70_/s640/Baker+Street+Elementary+41.4.JPG" width="640" /></a></div> <br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> </div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <b style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><i>Baker Street Elementary</i></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif; 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. 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;">www.bakerstreetelementary.org</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">.</span></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="font-family: "times new roman"; text-align: center;"> <div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">--</span><br /> <div> <span style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></div> <div> </div> </div> </div> </div>

Baker Street Elementary – Analyze This

“volumes of poetry” [ENGR]  Over the years, we've seen a number of creative approaches to Sherlockian material through poetry. ...

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Nominate Sherlock Holmes to the National Registry of Films

<h4 style="text-align: center;"> "Who do you give your casting vote to?" [ENGR]</h4> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzTMdbKkSMsQwsU9mJKhK_xtAawR-HRi1ee1g7oFHngIfVI6k62YmFEZhy6wEnYrCqEGd99wxDIU6SLrPUpC-V2VM2M-cxAwS_ovre-8spubLASyEK0zRdyDWJ8i9Zn644Z4rJv7N0yqKm/s1600/Sherlock_Holmes_1916_still.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzTMdbKkSMsQwsU9mJKhK_xtAawR-HRi1ee1g7oFHngIfVI6k62YmFEZhy6wEnYrCqEGd99wxDIU6SLrPUpC-V2VM2M-cxAwS_ovre-8spubLASyEK0zRdyDWJ8i9Zn644Z4rJv7N0yqKm/s1600/Sherlock_Holmes_1916_still.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="681" data-original-width="1280" height="340" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzTMdbKkSMsQwsU9mJKhK_xtAawR-HRi1ee1g7oFHngIfVI6k62YmFEZhy6wEnYrCqEGd99wxDIU6SLrPUpC-V2VM2M-cxAwS_ovre-8spubLASyEK0zRdyDWJ8i9Zn644Z4rJv7N0yqKm/s1600/Sherlock_Holmes_1916_still.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <br /> The <a href="http://ihose.co/1916film" target="_blank">discovery of the 1916 William Gillette film <i>Sherlock Holmes</i></a> in 2014 was one of the highlights of the Sherlockian calendar.<br /> <br /> <a href="http://ihose.co/ihose147" target="_blank">Russell Merritt, BSI</a> ("The Trepoff Murder"), the Cinémathèque Française, the San Francisco Silent Film Institute, and <a href="http://ihose.co/ihose79" target="_blank">Glen Miranker, BSI</a> ("The Origin of Tree Worship") did a fine job of restoring and <a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2015/06/sherlock-holmes-in-san-francisco.html" target="_blank">presenting the film</a> to the public.<br /> <br /> And now we (and the film) need <i>your</i> help.<br /> <br /> <b>The Library of Congress</b> of the United States has a <a href="https://www.loc.gov/programs/national-film-preservation-board/about-this-program/" target="_blank">National Film Preservation Board</a> that works to ensure the survival, conservation and increased public availability of America's film heritage. As part of that, the National Film Registry selects 25 films each year showcasing the range and diversity of American film heritage to increase awareness for its preservation.<br /> <br /> <h2> Nominations are now being accepted for the 2018 Registry</h2> The Library of Congress invites you to submit your recommendations for movies to be included on the 2018 National Film Registry. Public nominations play a key role when the Librarian and Film Board are considering their final selections. To be eligible for the Registry, a film must be at least 10 years old and be "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."<br /> <br /> The National Film Registry historically has included only those films that were produced or co-produced by an American film company, typically for theatrical release or recognized as a film through film festivals or film awards.<br /> <div> <br /></div> <div> Nominations are open until September 15, 2018.</div> <div> <br /> <div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjr42dmQw1ss5Gy4-MutamKmGqW-mdIXS56vCT-ZFuGcM6U0tcjap9ZRp-uqtzZlCpTbdsKp0UcDeF6DZzhKRvdn5RBao2ZprJt1GlDLV5C1WcA19mj67jFF7gkBvF-fsRjKRSm2FG2vwZJ/s1600/SFSFF+-+William+Gillette+sunglasses.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="530" data-original-width="467" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjr42dmQw1ss5Gy4-MutamKmGqW-mdIXS56vCT-ZFuGcM6U0tcjap9ZRp-uqtzZlCpTbdsKp0UcDeF6DZzhKRvdn5RBao2ZprJt1GlDLV5C1WcA19mj67jFF7gkBvF-fsRjKRSm2FG2vwZJ/s320/SFSFF+-+William+Gillette+sunglasses.jpg" width="281" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <br /></div> <h2> <b>How to nominate William Gillette's <i>Sherlock Holmes</i> (1916) </b></h2> <div> Please click here visit the <a href="https://www.research.net/r/national-film-registry-2017" target="_blank">2018 National Film Registry Nomination Form</a>.<br /> <br /> Once there, you will be asked for your email address and how you heard about the site (please tell them you heard about them from I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere!).<br /> <br /> Then, you'll have the opportunity to nominate up to 50 films.<br /> <br /> Please enter: Sherlock Holmes for the name of the film; and 1916 for the year.<br /> <br /> That's it—it's that simple!<br /> <br /> And please share this with other Sherlockians so we can get this moving!<br /> <br /> --<br /> <br /> <br /></div> </div>

Nominate Sherlock Holmes to the National Registry of Films

"Who do you give your casting vote to?" [ENGR] The discovery of the 1916 William Gillette film Sherlock Holmes in 2014 was...

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Episode 151: Memoirs from Mrs. Hudson's Kitchen

<h4 style="text-align: center;"> “I will cable to Mrs. Hudson” [LADY] </h4> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8Kyy6oLrMhFQ1xfS81Ax1Fw8e5apRX4qUODQgsXIjJbA-0pnktFlOHkvvRAcWGZYXX8ktSoQFX14UMR5hX3W40Dx9rfNz_8MRu-eqLwAsT8hdJuaJX5VtB2Ww0mPvOEhq71BC8iuaKhzD/s1600/Mrs.+Hudsons+Kitchen+header.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="427" data-original-width="624" height="436" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8Kyy6oLrMhFQ1xfS81Ax1Fw8e5apRX4qUODQgsXIjJbA-0pnktFlOHkvvRAcWGZYXX8ktSoQFX14UMR5hX3W40Dx9rfNz_8MRu-eqLwAsT8hdJuaJX5VtB2Ww0mPvOEhq71BC8iuaKhzD/s640/Mrs.+Hudsons+Kitchen+header.png" width="640" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <iframe allowfullscreen="" height="90" mozallowfullscreen="" msallowfullscreen="" oallowfullscreen="" scrolling="no" src="//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/6987136/height/90/theme/custom/autoplay/no/autonext/no/thumbnail/yes/preload/no/no_addthis/no/direction/backward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/994a58/" style="border: none;" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="100%"></iframe><br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> Mrs. Hudson. We know her as one of the stalwarts of the Baker Street Scene. Together with Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Watson, Mycroft, Inspector Lestrade, and Professor Moriarty, she's one of the most popular recurring characters in the Canon.<br /> <br /> But what do we really know about her? She only made an appearance in nine of the Sherlock Holmes stories. And other than her "stately tread," we don't have any knowledge about her physical being.<br /> <br /> Wendy Heyman-Marsaw is the author of <i>Memoirs from Mrs. Hudson's Kitchen</i>, a book that combines culinary curiosity with a new take on this independent and strong woman. Wendy is a longtime Sherlockian whose interests and career has taken her from the United States to England to Canada, and she joins us to talk about that journey and how it ultimately led to Mrs. Hudson's kitchen. 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Episode 151: Memoirs from Mrs. Hudson's Kitchen

“I will cable to Mrs. Hudson” [LADY]  Mrs. Hudson. We know her as one of the stalwarts of the Baker Street Scene. Togeth...

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Baker Street Elementary – Abstract Thinking

<h4 style="text-align: center;"> “You will excuse a certain abstraction of mind” [CREE] </h4> <div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGyHxoov2AdCNzI-sA382WHyzmCYKmU5vuVxxUUbwgmzd_zESpxNTWBoDo-0BOUVmZPf0EpIOXFT9y59il288HBvx1-_JJJXxHhZAn2orzWJPWbYZasKlLBplbQMHDaY9thgs_w1diI7ch/s1600/Baker+Street+Elementary.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><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></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> If there's one thing that plagues every writer from time to time, it's writer's block. That is, the inability to create something due to a lack of ideas, or an inability to proceed.<br /> <br /> When counseling others in this regard, some writers offer the helpful advice: "Just write something!" The notion is that, through the process of typing away in a stream of consciousness, the block will lift.<br /> <br /> When one considers that Conan Doyle wrote 60 Sherlock Holmes stories (that's four novels and 56 short stories, for you folks following along at home), and that most of them had unique plots (we'll forgive him the similarities between "The Red-Headed League" and "The Three Garridebs" as one example), he did remarkably well.<br /> <br /> We're up to the 40th installment of Baker Street Elementary, and now have our greatest challenge to date. The Fay-Masons are determined to stump the band. And we nearly succumbed as well. As Neil Gibson said to Holmes in "The Problem of Thor Bridge,"<br /> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> “I have broken stronger men than you. No man ever crossed me and was the better for it.”</blockquote> And we take great pride in responding as Sherlock Holmes did:<br /> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> “So many have said so, and yet here I am,” said Holmes, smiling.</blockquote> <br /> Onward, to the creative grounds of Baker Street Elementary we go...</div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQxejnRTXA2LpB-Z1Y_8viVGg-caXRa9Y0RFoPcCXRtUjdO76NBBlcfn1Yuiw0JTx4ASele4qRhFwhMKFEz0NoinknxyGCndMYloxS110J2tQnPJPjn0dWug6zlx5N_lsx8UBpoGdgv94E/s1600/Baker+Street+Elementary+40.1.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/AVvXsEgQxejnRTXA2LpB-Z1Y_8viVGg-caXRa9Y0RFoPcCXRtUjdO76NBBlcfn1Yuiw0JTx4ASele4qRhFwhMKFEz0NoinknxyGCndMYloxS110J2tQnPJPjn0dWug6zlx5N_lsx8UBpoGdgv94E/s640/Baker+Street+Elementary+40.1.JPG" width="640" /></a></div> <br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUw3V7t87h-StRur_6zQNbw4depRY_Y8u4cLlgQzGtymnLPVMWznYGk-c3FNI4HgCvZMG3RC7NYCmQTsz4t3ChdlHxkVjxRdsRAU8AuLNcJLM147lo-wwMk_SOTNON-_LyTpxQOdKkPrPU/s1600/Baker+Street+Elementary+40.2.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/AVvXsEhUw3V7t87h-StRur_6zQNbw4depRY_Y8u4cLlgQzGtymnLPVMWznYGk-c3FNI4HgCvZMG3RC7NYCmQTsz4t3ChdlHxkVjxRdsRAU8AuLNcJLM147lo-wwMk_SOTNON-_LyTpxQOdKkPrPU/s640/Baker+Street+Elementary+40.2.JPG" width="640" /></a></div> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> </div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <b style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><i>Baker Street Elementary</i></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif; 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. 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;">www.bakerstreetelementary.org</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">.</span></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="font-family: "times new roman"; text-align: center;"> <div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">--</span><br /> <div> <span style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></div> <div> </div> </div> </div> </div>

Baker Street Elementary – Abstract Thinking

“You will excuse a certain abstraction of mind” [CREE]  If there's one thing that plagues every writer from time to time, it...

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Episode 150: Elementary!

<h4 style="text-align: center;"> “"Excellent!" I cried. "Elementary," said he.” [CROO] </h4> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDFdeI2efa7aO06-xlryjIfQAyhs3be-t-QnPQlbtHq7uPgU2ognb94FbYl2xw7mUO6lH1FTSWysxyMNk6kFgL5RfTCLoGaJUzDAYVZzv4nWZtd3_rRbI7qMjeVemmL7jymDeB3XSl4kkt/s1600/elementary_keyart.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="980" data-original-width="1318" height="474" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDFdeI2efa7aO06-xlryjIfQAyhs3be-t-QnPQlbtHq7uPgU2ognb94FbYl2xw7mUO6lH1FTSWysxyMNk6kFgL5RfTCLoGaJUzDAYVZzv4nWZtd3_rRbI7qMjeVemmL7jymDeB3XSl4kkt/s640/elementary_keyart.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <iframe allowfullscreen="" height="90" mozallowfullscreen="" msallowfullscreen="" oallowfullscreen="" scrolling="no" src="//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/6931772/height/90/theme/custom/autoplay/no/autonext/no/thumbnail/yes/preload/no/no_addthis/no/direction/backward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/eda401/" style="border: none;" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="100%"></iframe><br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> We'll be honest. 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Episode 150: Elementary!

“"Excellent!" I cried. "Elementary," said he.” [CROO]  We'll be honest. The CBS drama series Eleme...

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Baker Street Elementary: Erector Threat

<h4 style="text-align: center;"> “I should erect an obvious dummy” [EMPT] </h4> <div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGyHxoov2AdCNzI-sA382WHyzmCYKmU5vuVxxUUbwgmzd_zESpxNTWBoDo-0BOUVmZPf0EpIOXFT9y59il288HBvx1-_JJJXxHhZAn2orzWJPWbYZasKlLBplbQMHDaY9thgs_w1diI7ch/s1600/Baker+Street+Elementary.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><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></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> One of the challenges of running this biweekly comic strip (something we've been doing every other Sunday since <a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2017/02/new-feature-baker-street-elementary.html#.W2_Maigzrb0" target="_blank">February 2017</a>) is coming up with relevant and entertaining commentary to preface each strip.<br /> <br /> We secretly think that the Baker Street Elementary crew deliberately tries to stump us, which makes us try even harder.<br /> <br /> In this case, if Watson assessed our knowledge of engineering like he assessed Sherlock Holmes's knowledge of various topics in <i>A Study in Scarlet</i>, it would fall somewhere between "nil" and "feeble."<br /> <br /> However, our appreciation for puns, witticisms, and wordplay would be on the "profound" level. As such, we developed a few altnernate titles for this particular strip, including:<br /> <br /> <ul> <li>The Problem of More Bridge</li> <li>The Engineer's Dumb (imagine our surprise when we discovered <a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2017/04/baker-street-elementary-engineers-dumb.html#.W2_NSCgzrb0" target="_blank">it had already been used</a>!)</li> <li>The Nor-Would Builder</li> <li>Knowledge of Engineering — Practical (Joking)</li> </ul> <br /> Perhaps our readers have suggestions for some pun-laden titles? Leave them in a comment below if you do.<br /> <br /> Meanwhile, the boys at Baker Street Elementary befuddle their physics and mathematics tutors...</div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEArLe7WOsd5D1aSTeYEvaloGU7x4KweBQFyPSCkHmYXHz498ecCuZHGK-fsOuFFF_5C4sJNhXUos1PNmS6ko2ewEDCokLTaz3Xg8FlGD_303cG8Alt-4aDQYGqCqr_Socv-4CyXgs1oua/s1600/Baker+Street+Elementary+39.1.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/AVvXsEgEArLe7WOsd5D1aSTeYEvaloGU7x4KweBQFyPSCkHmYXHz498ecCuZHGK-fsOuFFF_5C4sJNhXUos1PNmS6ko2ewEDCokLTaz3Xg8FlGD_303cG8Alt-4aDQYGqCqr_Socv-4CyXgs1oua/s640/Baker+Street+Elementary+39.1.JPG" width="640" /></a></div> <br /> <br /> <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;">www.bakerstreetelementary.org</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">.</span></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="font-family: "times new roman"; text-align: center;"> <div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">--</span><br /> <div> <span style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></div> <div> </div> </div> </div> </div>

Baker Street Elementary: Erector Threat

“I should erect an obvious dummy” [EMPT]  One of the challenges of running this biweekly comic strip (something we've been doing...

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Trifling Issues in July

<h4 style="text-align: center;"> "a meer trifle, but the sort of thing you take interest in" [SECO] </h4> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQy0hwK5k3rHqS0DBzk2FhBFzcSVocLN1HwUlXePZidfhc_MMOAMIax7bxFi5qpLGmdaYPuBwCiNdK5L5mru97-1cJD2kYnM444sXPtlL6u8mZL6Hld0XKeda5DEfIhpKxJigj6V0PrKOI/s1600/Trifles+-+Social+sharing.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="862" data-original-width="1600" height="344" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQy0hwK5k3rHqS0DBzk2FhBFzcSVocLN1HwUlXePZidfhc_MMOAMIax7bxFi5qpLGmdaYPuBwCiNdK5L5mru97-1cJD2kYnM444sXPtlL6u8mZL6Hld0XKeda5DEfIhpKxJigj6V0PrKOI/s640/Trifles+-+Social+sharing.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <br /> We hope you've had a chance to hear our <a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2018/06/happy-anniversary.html#.Wyh07qczrb0" target="_blank">11 year-long show</a>, in which we interview notable Sherlockians who are doing their part to keep the memory of Sherlock Holmes green. The program <b>I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere</b> has evolved over the years, but we're on a steady cadence of long-form interviews on the 15th and 30th of every month.<br /> <br /> But over on <a href="http://www.sherlockholmespodcast.com/">Trifles</a>, we're doing something completely different: we have short discussions of about 15 minutes in length every week in which we talk about one or two issues that we've noticed within the Sherlock Holmes stories. It's an approach that we hope brings more people into our fold who are new to Sherlock Holmes and are fascinated with the details within the story, or who may have some questions about what they read.<br /> <br /> <br /> And now, on with the recap of <a href="http://www.sherlockholmespodcast.com/2018/07/" target="_blank">our July shows</a>.<br /> <br /> <h3> <b>July Update</b></h3> If you've listened to more than one episode of Trifles, just a word of caution: don't skip the intro or the final few seconds of each show! We vary the introductions and the closing quotes. You may be amused.<br /> <br /> You'd think that we would have planned this episode for the rainier month of April, but no! <a href="http://ihose.co/trifles79" target="_blank">Episode 79 - Umbrellas in the Canon</a> had us discussing the various rain gear we happen across in the Sherlock Holmes stories. Interestingly enough, there were precious few umbrellas mentioned.<br /> <br /> <div style="text-align: left;"> <iframe frameborder="0" height="200" scrolling="no" src="https://embed.radiopublic.com/e?if=sherlock-holmes-trifles-GqnV0O&ge=s1!9a0838f2e48586f2945dab9ae43ef6ed5434af86" width="100%"></iframe></div> <br /> <br /> <br /> On to Episode 80, where we continued our monthly feature "<b>Inside 221B</b>" that looks at some of the physical objects we find in the flat at 221B Baker Street. This time, we investigated <a href="http://ihose.co/trifles80" target="_blank">The Wax Bust</a> that served Sherlock Holmes on more than one occasion. Or was it more than one bust?<br /> <br /> <div style="text-align: left;"> <iframe frameborder="0" height="200" scrolling="no" src="https://embed.radiopublic.com/e?if=sherlock-holmes-trifles-GqnV0O&ge=s1!54ddd819b45285fa70220d7869c67e7c43948829" width="100%"></iframe><br /></div> <br /> <br /> Our next regular monthly feature, "<b>Unpublished Cases,</b>" has to do with tales that didn't make it to the public. Episode 81 brings us some of <a href="http://ihose.co/ihose81" target="_blank">Holmes's Early Clients</a> that he named and hinted at.<br /> <br /> <div style="text-align: left;"> <iframe frameborder="0" height="200" scrolling="no" src="https://embed.radiopublic.com/e?if=sherlock-holmes-trifles-GqnV0O&ge=s1!9012fb45fffb013aa847b8a9dd6f6fadec0a43c3" width="100%"></iframe><br /></div> <br /> <br /> And finally, in Episode 82, <a href="http://ihose.co/trifles82" target="_blank">Sherlock Holmes's Underground Network</a> takes us to the streets and seedier parts of London, to the unlikely sources that powered the consulting detective's long arm of the law.<br /> <br /> <iframe frameborder="0" height="200" scrolling="no" src="https://embed.radiopublic.com/e?if=sherlock-holmes-trifles-GqnV0O&ge=s1!67929a0a73c68edda24af1968883bf9cf289ea0c" width="100%"></iframe><br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <h3> <b>A Question for You</b></h3> Do you have burning questions you'd like answered? Or perhaps you just noticed something on your umpteenth reading of the Canon. We'd love your suggestions! Simply email us at trifles@ihearofsherlock.com and we'll add it to our queue of topics.<br /> <br /> Also, if you like what you hear, please subscribe to <a href="http://sherlockholmespodcast.com/">Trifles</a> via the podcast provider of your choice, or to the email updates.<br /> <br /> <br /> <i>If you'd like to learn more about Tom Richmond, the talented artist behind the show's logo, you can hear his story in <a href="http://ihose.co/ihose65">Episode 65: Art in the Blood</a>.</i><br /> <br /> <div> </div> <br /> <div style="font-family: "times new roman"; margin: 0px;"> --</div>

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"a meer trifle, but the sort of thing you take interest in" [SECO]  We hope you've had a chance to hear our  11 year-long...

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Episode 149: Conan Doyle for the Defense

<h4 style="text-align: center;"> “requisitioned for the defense” [VALL] </h4> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkZr8fDJZPSNS7YjaKEIoHx9hZYwcZYvk-BlOkKNsQ0H40ydmN96zfYKaxP1PH5jghpfnt0XWDuUA7rSu-nJGp6JjMGSh9vYre2O7N2JzLgJLJTHQUAZC7rHi7byCrA0W3s2j5j4yw1rbFQPSDdBx-h-AK8HpwDxjpK5HidYE1mG_3l3v4gXmqCk14lw/s851/CD4Dfense%20header.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="545" data-original-width="851" height="410" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkZr8fDJZPSNS7YjaKEIoHx9hZYwcZYvk-BlOkKNsQ0H40ydmN96zfYKaxP1PH5jghpfnt0XWDuUA7rSu-nJGp6JjMGSh9vYre2O7N2JzLgJLJTHQUAZC7rHi7byCrA0W3s2j5j4yw1rbFQPSDdBx-h-AK8HpwDxjpK5HidYE1mG_3l3v4gXmqCk14lw/w640-h410/CD4Dfense%20header.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> Conan Doyle's real-life turn as Sherlock Holmes has typically been shared through the George Edalji case. But there was another case involving one Oscar Slater that has been more of a footnote than a feature. Author <b>Margalit Fox</b> set out to change that.<br /> <br /> In <i><b><a href="https://amzn.to/4314A5A" target="_blank">Conan Doyle for the Defense: The True Story of a Sensational British Murder, a Quest for Justice, and the World's Most Famous Detective Writer</a></b></i>, she has crafted a fascinating true-crime narrative thanks to her career as an explanatory writer (most notably as a senior writer for <i>The New York Times</i>).<br /> <br /> Our conversation with Ms. Fox ranges from the origin of her fascination with this story, to the societal prejudices and corruption that weighed on the victim and verdict, to Conan Doyle's own revulsion with the actions of the innocent man, and takes us from the streets of Glasgow to the barren north shore of Scotland, home of a gulag-like prison that held an innocent man for 18 years.<br /> <br /> It's a fascinating and tragic story that fully exposes the chinks in Sir Arthur's armor, the true nature of an accused criminal, and the elements that still stick with society today.<br /> <br /> And don't forget to try your hand at the latest <b>Canonical Couplet</b> and win a prize – you don't need to be a<b><i> </i></b><a href="http://ihose.co/ihosepatron" style="font-weight: bold;">Patron of the Arts</a> <i>– </i>now <b style="font-style: italic;">every </b>listener is eligible to participate! 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Episode 149: Conan Doyle for the Defense

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Baker Street Elementary – Walking a Tightrope

<h4 style="text-align: center;"> “No one but an acrobat” [ABBE] </h4> <div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGyHxoov2AdCNzI-sA382WHyzmCYKmU5vuVxxUUbwgmzd_zESpxNTWBoDo-0BOUVmZPf0EpIOXFT9y59il288HBvx1-_JJJXxHhZAn2orzWJPWbYZasKlLBplbQMHDaY9thgs_w1diI7ch/s1600/Baker+Street+Elementary.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><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></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> Oh, how the class clown fascinates us. He (and it's typically a boy) has an oversized sense of humor, and knows how to employ it to the amusement of his classmates and the annoyance of his teacher.<br /> <br /> Humor is a tough thing for anyone in front of a group. It's hit or miss. In many ways, it's like being an acrobat. When you see an opportunity, you go for it, hoping you don't slip and fall. Especially when there's no net.<br /> <br /> Sherlock Holmes did make a few attempts at humor – in some cases with more snark and insult ("The Three Gables," anyone?) – but knew enough to stay away for the most part. But he did know a thing or two about <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYP1OBZfFK0" target="_blank">Niagara Falls</a>.<br /> <br /> In <i>A Study in Scarlet</i>, Watson read from "The Book of Life":<br /> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> “From a drop of water,” said the writer, “a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other. So all life is a great chain, the nature of which is known whenever we are shown a single link of it."</blockquote> </div> <div style="text-align: left;"> He quickly discovered that it was Sherlock Holmes himself who had written that article. While it may have seemed fanciful, it was quite obvious that a drop of water had an origin somewhere else, and likely had friends with which it congregated. And to Holmes, foreseeing a Niagara Falls was a simple logical inference.</div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> And if you've got such a natural wonder as Niagara Falls, why not make use of it? So thought Jean François Gravelet, otherwise known as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Blondin" target="_blank">Charles Blondin</a>. Blondin first crossed the Niagara on tightrope on June 30, 1859, and made a name for himself. You can read about his life and other exploits in that link above, including an instance in which a tightrope crossing gone wrong cost two men their lives.</div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> But Holmes fancied himself a Blondin (which by that time had become a generic name for anyone in the tightrope-walking profession) in <i>The Sign of Four</i>: "Now run down-stairs, loose the dog, and look out for Blondin."</div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> You see, at that moment, Sherlock Holmes was planning to walk the roofline of Pondicherry Lodge.</div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <br /> But back at Baker Street Elementary, young Master Sherlock finds himself walking a very different tightrope altogether...<br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNn14j2XaHwJRgge_QWcUroqlbmPrEawEQ5EDzzLFjytRu9OvIhIH-dwsy6YCU9m43iQ6YTTdYgDnY_KpbuJRt1bym4oH6bc_mw660_NWlJlI0JSa7GBu2lGeZ5B2ocUkSq5gykEbEVTPS/s1600/Baker+Street+Elementary+38.1.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/AVvXsEjNn14j2XaHwJRgge_QWcUroqlbmPrEawEQ5EDzzLFjytRu9OvIhIH-dwsy6YCU9m43iQ6YTTdYgDnY_KpbuJRt1bym4oH6bc_mw660_NWlJlI0JSa7GBu2lGeZ5B2ocUkSq5gykEbEVTPS/s640/Baker+Street+Elementary+38.1.JPG" width="640" /></a></div> <br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicxlEzgRCok9MzEJiSoZyBCg8nsKjk5EB8kYxG2qL-5a7W-wx0NGQTaId_SZbpGPpiKCuFwjw0pWu27NI61sgBoF8y5TLKemPjcW32hElkI8C5GmzG96bLNnFCk61Rd4wkGOC_aF6CydDn/s1600/Baker+Street+Elementary+38.2.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/AVvXsEicxlEzgRCok9MzEJiSoZyBCg8nsKjk5EB8kYxG2qL-5a7W-wx0NGQTaId_SZbpGPpiKCuFwjw0pWu27NI61sgBoF8y5TLKemPjcW32hElkI8C5GmzG96bLNnFCk61Rd4wkGOC_aF6CydDn/s640/Baker+Street+Elementary+38.2.JPG" width="640" /></a></div> <br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjluFklI3jyqKP5EL1hDbaLYQiHm0OzmYg2eKLQ6xYijRRtjXHwNkOxtXgs_c5iaPLKoO0eb5a5BEAKrYRyYR7Q268e6A6kRgFP1bjmvekmNbubs2sq9Eobw59ymxYHY9wzMRyrOKWMOJcw/s1600/Baker+Street+Elementary+38.3.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/AVvXsEjluFklI3jyqKP5EL1hDbaLYQiHm0OzmYg2eKLQ6xYijRRtjXHwNkOxtXgs_c5iaPLKoO0eb5a5BEAKrYRyYR7Q268e6A6kRgFP1bjmvekmNbubs2sq9Eobw59ymxYHY9wzMRyrOKWMOJcw/s640/Baker+Street+Elementary+38.3.JPG" width="640" /></a></div> <br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgg3PjpbjgYQa3iznw2w1YhlLtxJQ_d55UABO2_0CsY6uYUdwPpnpo_Gn66FwwhF8pgSAJIYLeo0qlghu0DWZw9DexoWkY0SSTXlBbrP68JGFlK6o2mJF_jJxCUhGR27MV37wZVeqMXOdVQ/s1600/Baker+Street+Elementary+38.4.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/AVvXsEgg3PjpbjgYQa3iznw2w1YhlLtxJQ_d55UABO2_0CsY6uYUdwPpnpo_Gn66FwwhF8pgSAJIYLeo0qlghu0DWZw9DexoWkY0SSTXlBbrP68JGFlK6o2mJF_jJxCUhGR27MV37wZVeqMXOdVQ/s640/Baker+Street+Elementary+38.4.JPG" width="640" /></a></div> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> </div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <b style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><i>Baker Street Elementary</i></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif; 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. 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;">www.bakerstreetelementary.org</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">.</span></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="font-family: "times new roman"; text-align: center;"> <div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">--</span><br /> <div> <span style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></div> <div> </div> </div> </div> </div>

Baker Street Elementary – Walking a Tightrope

“No one but an acrobat” [ABBE]  Oh, how the class clown fascinates us. He (and it's typically a boy) has an oversized sense of h...

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by Scott Monty

Remembering Joel Senter

<h4 style="text-align: center;"> <b>"in the center of its web" [FINA]</b> </h4> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSAWqsQw995v_pHsO6TPHqHpezmAhaMbJ3uowILuB3OBqVLK603bsYM9OGTsGF8KAR3FhZbQ_AYbuL2c5KaJ1x22YZzaxzj2SaDEhQVdQu4hdEwygdp1nwI-Y61zFp9uzlfKjKqXxUj2GO/s1600/Joel+Senter.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSAWqsQw995v_pHsO6TPHqHpezmAhaMbJ3uowILuB3OBqVLK603bsYM9OGTsGF8KAR3FhZbQ_AYbuL2c5KaJ1x22YZzaxzj2SaDEhQVdQu4hdEwygdp1nwI-Y61zFp9uzlfKjKqXxUj2GO/s640/Joel+Senter.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Joel Senter (L) with Dan Andriacco and Carolyn Senter (R)</i> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <br /> At one time, it could be said that Joel Senter, along with his wife Carolyn, was the Amazon.com of the Sherlockian world.<br /> <br /> Joel and Carolyn established Classic Specialties, a Sherlockian mail-order business where you could get everything from scarves to lapel pins to stationery and so much more, all emblazoned with Sherlockian images.<br /> <br /> Sadly, Carolyn notified us that Joel passed over the Reichenbach on Monday, just a few days shy of their 50th wedding anniversary on Thursday.<br /> <br /> When Joel and Carolyn began Classic Specialties in 1988, they probably didn't know exactly how big this was going to become. Their catalog reached hundreds of Sherlockians, but word spread, and before long, they established a website for themselves as well, and it really took off.<br /> <br /> From <a href="http://www.sherlock-holmes.com/featur1.htm" target="_blank">a 1996 entry</a> on their website:<br /> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> It all began with a sweater. Joel had been a Sherlock Holmes fan since his high school days when he was introduced to "The Red-Headed League" through an English literature book. (Carolyn says that her interest in Holmes didn't start in high school because she went to a college preparatory program and they never did anything interesting!) Carolyn had been both an amateur and professional knitter for many years, so one year she made a Sherlock Holmes sweater for Joel. The sweater had silhouettes of Holmes and Watson, a replica of Mr. Holmes signature, a "speckled band" around the waist, a string of dancing men (which no one has yet deciphered), and assorted other "Sherlockiana" either knitted, or appliquéd, onto the sweater.<br /> <br /> In 1987, we attended the Friends of Old Time Radio convention in Newark, New Jersey. There we met a fellow Sherlockian named Bill Nadel. He learned of the sweater and asked Carolyn if she would make one for him... Carolyn later decided to see if Bill would be pleased with a much simpler garment, so she made a scarf and sent it to him. Subsequently, Bill wore the scarf to some Sherlockian functions. As a result, some other folks in the New York area contacted Carolyn to ask if she would make scarves for them, too. She complied and made a few scarves, mostly for Bill's New York area compatriots.<br /> <br /> The scarves were well received. Eventually, it occurred to Joel and I that Sherlockians elsewhere might like to have some of these scarves, so we created a "line" of scarves with Sherlockian motifs, including the Speckled Band scarf, the Empty House scarf, the Sign of the Four scarf, and others. We bought an ad in the Baker Street Journal and sent out an advertising mailer to a few clubs and scions. There were a few responses, so we expanded our product "line" to include such things as a "battle at Reichenbach sweater jacket" and a "Speckled Band bell rope.<br /> <br /> At about the time the work load started to become unmanageable, some creators of other Sherlockian products (lapel pins, books, monographs, artwork, etc.) started to become aware of our existence and contacted us to see if we could help them market their items, too. Very slowly, and very selectively, we began to market such articles for others. Even though we do still create many items ourselves, we focus more on the marketing aspect, and our contact with Sherlockians and their products continues to grow even now. This is not only a pleasure for us, but, we think, an advantage to the global Sherlockian Community.<br /> <br /> You see, as "brokers" for all matter of items, we have created a conduit of communication among Sherlockians all over the world. Now people who would never have known each other are not only aware of each other's products, but more importantly, they are aware of each other! Consequently, we think of our Classic Specialties organization as more than a purely commercial enterprise. We feel we have created communication channels among Sherlockians which would not otherwise have existed!</blockquote> <br /> Their catalogs were nicely done (later called <i>The Sherlockian Times</i>), and it's what attracted our attention to a certain "Gold pin—bull-dog’s head, with rubies as eyes," belonging to Enoch Drebber in <i>A Study in Scarlet</i>. We bought their entire supply and made it the official lapel pin for the Bull-Terrier Club of Boston University. During that timeframe, we also enjoyed notepads, note cards, and other ephemera we ordered from Classic Specialties.<br /> <br /> Eventually, Joel and Carolyn created an email list called the Sherlockian E-Times, which they distributed monthly. They shuttered the mail-order business but kept communicating with that vibrant community and shared stories, links, photos, comic strips and more on their site.<br /> <br /> But on April 29, we received a short email from Joel that caught many Sherlockians by surprise and in which he explained the future of the E-Times:<br /> <blockquote> Well, Loyal Readers, it is time for me to be composing the May issue of the Sherlockian E-Times, however circumstances have conspired such that I find that I can no longer rise to the occasion. Hence, the <a href="http://www.sherlock-holmes.com/e_times18-4.html" target="_blank">April 2018 edition</a> will be our final issue. I thank you for your readership and I also thank those of you who helped fill our pages by sharing your Sherlockian scholarship with us. It has been a pleasure serving you first through Classic Specialties and the Sherlockian Times and then through the Sherlockian E-Times during these past three decades. Farewell and so-long.<br /> <br /> Very sincerely yours,<br /> R. Joel Senter</blockquote> <br /> <br /> We invited Joel to be interviewed for <a href="http://ihose.co/ihoseshows" target="_blank">I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere</a>, but he politely declined. While we were disappointed, we certainly understood, and anticipated the outcome this week.<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDUJ8OSKCpyAyMg6GUPaMQBmi46_iMRp4QlQJY7e0P7ECylfqkFb7qfy1AOW2A9jrDrK-ljBfxYgD9JyBidKamsMyA0k-ahmRoh214fCcAH3LcRiC8KlIoRHMusY59NMi1pHLuw3yBB6RQ/s1600/Joel+and+I+looking+happy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDUJ8OSKCpyAyMg6GUPaMQBmi46_iMRp4QlQJY7e0P7ECylfqkFb7qfy1AOW2A9jrDrK-ljBfxYgD9JyBidKamsMyA0k-ahmRoh214fCcAH3LcRiC8KlIoRHMusY59NMi1pHLuw3yBB6RQ/s640/Joel+and+I+looking+happy.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <br /> <div> <br /></div> <div> The note that Carolyn sent earlier this week has the most personal and relevant information about Joel, and we'd like to share it here:</div> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> For 32 years, he was Professor of Psychology at the University of Cincinnati. During those years, he taught many classes but was usually thought of as a statistics teacher. He wrote 2 textbooks, one of which was a statistics text entitled, Analysis of Data which now is practically a classic (sometimes you can see a copy available on Abe Books).<br /> <br /> For 10 of those 32 years, he taught enormous sized classes in Introductory Psychology. The class size ranged from 300 or 400 to as many as 800 students. Those classes were amazing productions and for some topics, non-registered people would come in and sit in the aisles to listen and many students changed their schedules in order to take his class which was often filled. He prepared for those classes himself since he only had one teaching assistant to help.<br /> <br /> In addition to textbooks, he wrote innumerable journal articles and applied for and received innumerable grants from various government agencies. The University tasked him with the job of establishing and heading an Experimental Psychology laboratory. It was established in a large, off campus building in which several people (students and teachers) set-up labs and performed experiments, analyzed data, etc.<br /> <br /> When Joel accepted the University's early retirement package in 1988, he and I started Classic Specialties, The Sherlockian Times, and eventually, the Sherlockian E-Times.<br /> You all know the rest of the story. We operated Classic Specialties for 28 years. We met many of you and because of those years we had some the best times and met some of the best people and made some very good friends.<br /> <br /> Joel was blessed in many ways but something I want to thank all of you for are your wonderful messages when you learned the E-Times was ending. He received so many lovely messages from you and he was able to see how people thought of him. For that I am enormously grateful.<br /> <br /> Joel was always fond of repeating to students or any young talented person with whom he spoke, the advice he received from a professor when he was a student, i.e., "He who toots not his own horn, so shall it not be tooted." However, he never followed his own advice and indeed even eschewed his own accomplishments.<br /> <br /> I thought you might want to know a bit more about who he was and who I am now without. For me, this lonely position I am in is incredibly, almost impossibly difficult to bear but Joel is now, I hope, discussing some of the finer points of the Canon with those who have crossed over Reichenbach before him.</blockquote> <br /> Our sincerest condolences to Carolyn. Joel was a quiet but oversized presence in the Sherlockian world, and he'll be missed by many.<br /> <br /> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4t9Yan_90xxtT5USYWQJ2E3dAe_OWmFMS1uZYZQxS79A_HWDncPrxdJfx4QNkFjxq4OArj85Y_EIX1Xy-jquQ7t3oFa1HTqabEC5wAP2EcFYnI7sNs0ANtYqyfPccvVVxJbD90PNG8JvD/s1600/Joel+Senter+-+Phil+Cornell.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="816" data-original-width="1092" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4t9Yan_90xxtT5USYWQJ2E3dAe_OWmFMS1uZYZQxS79A_HWDncPrxdJfx4QNkFjxq4OArj85Y_EIX1Xy-jquQ7t3oFa1HTqabEC5wAP2EcFYnI7sNs0ANtYqyfPccvVVxJbD90PNG8JvD/s640/Joel+Senter+-+Phil+Cornell.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Courtesy of Phil Cornell</i></td></tr> </tbody></table> <br /> <br /> <i>Image credits: <a href="https://bakerstreetbeat.blogspot.com/2012/03/those-sherlock-holmes-people-in.html" target="_blank">Dan Andriacco</a> (above), Carolyn Senter (middle), Phil Cornell (below)</i><br /> <br />

Remembering Joel Senter

"in the center of its web" [FINA]   Joel Senter (L) with Dan Andriacco and Carolyn Senter (R)   At one time, it could be sa...

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by Scott Monty

The Baker Street Irregulars Online

<h4 style="text-align: center;"> <b>"Have you found it, Wiggins?" [SIGN] </b></h4> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigLQj9BsePGwAE8lik52CUwuzBfmyCSGw7F2DnLBP1iO3IujIZbaZ_c9UOGilo_2yRUn0IWGa5qp9_L0rk1EAtrtUslzgcNXDl1v7UiOivbCmJ5kbLLzR5y7uU8n8m3iuJCtwA-5rWsAWx/s1600/BSI+Website.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="776" data-original-width="1600" height="310" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigLQj9BsePGwAE8lik52CUwuzBfmyCSGw7F2DnLBP1iO3IujIZbaZ_c9UOGilo_2yRUn0IWGa5qp9_L0rk1EAtrtUslzgcNXDl1v7UiOivbCmJ5kbLLzR5y7uU8n8m3iuJCtwA-5rWsAWx/s640/BSI+Website.JPG" width="640" /></a></div> <br /> Since the introduction of Netscape to navigate the Internet in 1994 and pay-to-access services like Prodigy, AOL and Compuserve even earlier in the 1990s, the world has been moving to digital communications.<br /> <br /> But the world of Sherlockians has traditionally moved at its own pace. In a world where "it's always 1895," as <a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2013/10/celebrate-national-poetry-day.html" target="_blank">the Vincent Starrett poem</a> goes, it's not surprising that the Baker Street Irregulars have taken their time establishing a web presence.<br /> <br /> <h3> <b>“These relics have a history then?”</b></h3> When your editor was invested into the BSI in 2001, one of our first suggestions was establishing a web presence — at least for the <i><a href="http://www.bakerstreetjournal.com/" target="_blank">Baker Street Journal</a></i>, since the organization was planning to sell CD-ROMs of the BSJ's holdings from 1946-2000. It made perfect sense to sell online something that required a computer to use.<br /> <br /> In doing so, we established and designed the site <a href="http://bakerstreetjournal.com/" target="_blank">bakerstreetjournal.com</a>, where we implemented PayPal for electronic payments, offered excerpts from previous issues, a table of contents for the current issue, and allowed subscribers to create automatically renewing subscriptions. The site first launched with the ability to purchase subscriptions, get back issues, and buy the CD-ROM. You can view <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20010717133833/http://www.bakerstreetjournal.com:80/" target="_blank">what it first looked like on July 17, 2001, via the Wayback Machine</a>.<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi62hb2ZCEbaQpGyiD5Bj5pPrXNOp_BOTTlI-zyzfhr9hLiKgE8krT9KM6cvsJd-znvqUtOvM_fP8mGB0uwjzPPR89ny9GZlF6eE0vykl9j61j-xHtPbzgvhev44M0KqpVE6XW7VUuyUyEX/s1600/BSJ+online+2001-07-21.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="860" data-original-width="817" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi62hb2ZCEbaQpGyiD5Bj5pPrXNOp_BOTTlI-zyzfhr9hLiKgE8krT9KM6cvsJd-znvqUtOvM_fP8mGB0uwjzPPR89ny9GZlF6eE0vykl9j61j-xHtPbzgvhev44M0KqpVE6XW7VUuyUyEX/s640/BSJ+online+2001-07-21.JPG" width="608" /></a></div> <br /> <br /> We soon added the BSI History Series, edited by Jon Lellenberg, the BSI Manuscript Series, the BSI International Series, and entire articles that won the Morley-Montgomery Award. We played with the design a bit — electing to stay with the BSJ's canary yellow theme for a while. If you go to <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/*/bakerstreetjournal.com" target="_blank">the main Wayback Machine link,</a> you can trace it through the years, clicking on the calendars for particular points in time.<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1IsWOV07WMeTGB90rsg8L7iOX01mIEbE8zJlo5fRuU7LxyVsj-iLWXwbPSeWjBNHLik-bc_8rNG8r0FXLV4Cfd_gJN_EwY4sfhXbOTIin03kUdWGWRJ1FqiVdHEbT9h1gkv6uOBwANGQV/s1600/BSJ+online+2002-11-22.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="428" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1IsWOV07WMeTGB90rsg8L7iOX01mIEbE8zJlo5fRuU7LxyVsj-iLWXwbPSeWjBNHLik-bc_8rNG8r0FXLV4Cfd_gJN_EwY4sfhXbOTIin03kUdWGWRJ1FqiVdHEbT9h1gkv6uOBwANGQV/s320/BSJ+online+2002-11-22.JPG" width="182" /></a></div> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1eB3P8rRFJpNZUQ2DMn2qlnltYKY1DoinWZZ9lDF-L9Q7RK_e-1ulFIZxaKXXKIdXcGDHli7vYgESIngGQRQMagRIlT29DLEbmeZk_K3DIczm-5m1lmljUap-ZuNtVUvt7Y6s7-IX2k5D/s1600/BSJ+online+2003-12-09.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="785" data-original-width="1029" height="244" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1eB3P8rRFJpNZUQ2DMn2qlnltYKY1DoinWZZ9lDF-L9Q7RK_e-1ulFIZxaKXXKIdXcGDHli7vYgESIngGQRQMagRIlT29DLEbmeZk_K3DIczm-5m1lmljUap-ZuNtVUvt7Y6s7-IX2k5D/s320/BSJ+online+2003-12-09.JPG" width="320" /></a></div> <br /> <br /> Fast forward to <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060721090045/http://www.bakerstreetjournal.com:80/" target="_blank">July, 2006</a> and you'll find that the site underwent a considerable overhaul. We adopted the BSI's colors of <a href="http://www.sherlockholmespodcast.com/2017/03/10-dressing-gown-of-many-colors.html" target="_blank">blue, purple, and mouse</a>, and added some additional navigation. We noted that change on I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere on July 13, 2006 in the article <a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2006/07/makes-considerable-difference-to-me-bosc_13.html#.W1DyVtIzrb0" target="_blank">"It Makes a Considerable Difference to Me" [BOSC]</a>.<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEil65K0K9GST9kQOvKb5thIrnesi_E1IZ4jp-9NfpkTWRSnaJeqMNDCmb5vxSAK8STboM3P0HwLo8xeJv5zF31LsEH9ZwxUMvoV_eFRUDvwJUEwInUSjEwYa7w9LDEkS6tBbFI3xK3cJ_RV/s1600/BSJ+online+2006-06.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="851" data-original-width="908" height="598" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEil65K0K9GST9kQOvKb5thIrnesi_E1IZ4jp-9NfpkTWRSnaJeqMNDCmb5vxSAK8STboM3P0HwLo8xeJv5zF31LsEH9ZwxUMvoV_eFRUDvwJUEwInUSjEwYa7w9LDEkS6tBbFI3xK3cJ_RV/s640/BSJ+online+2006-06.JPG" width="640" /></a></div> <br /> <br /> When work responsibilities became too much for us in 2008, we turned over the reins to Randall Stock, BSI ("South African Securities"), who has ably guided the site through its many updates since then. He created sections for the eBSJ, the expanded Manuscript Series and associated titles, and the events that the BSI hosts as well. It became clear in recent years that the content had outgrown the site, as the BSJ domain was doing more than simply promoting the <i>Journal</i>.<br /> <br /> Not to mention the separate site that accurately and comprehensively captures the breadth of the <a href="http://bsitrust.org/" target="_blank">BSI Trust</a>, including excerpts from the BSI's Oral History project and information on every BSI Dinner since 1934. Regular visitors to our site may find the layout and navigation of the BSI Trust site slightly familiar...<br /> <br /> <h3> <b>“</b><b>a new experience</b><b>”</b><b> [LAST]</b></h3> Under the capable leadership of <a href="http://ihose.co/ihose71" target="_blank">Mike Whelan</a> as the BSI's "Wiggins," the Baker Street Irregulars have flourished in the last 20 years. The BSI Trust was established to house the BSI's archives and historical material, which has now found a new home at the Lilly Library. The BSI Press has become a publishing powerhouse, with over 60 titles in an ever-expanding set of categories. The BSI Weekend is much more than a weekend, and involves many satellite events stretching from Wednesday to Sunday of the "weekend." Plus, the BSI holds events that are more along the lines of expeditions every few years. And of course, the BSJ continues on its heralded quarterly schedule.<br /> <br /> With so much information to convey, it became clear that the BSJ site couldn't continue to shoulder it all; and frankly, the site was much more than just the Baker Street Journal — it was doubling as the BSI's website.<br /> <br /> And with that, Randall and team worked tirelessly over the last year or so to design and build the new <a href="http://www.bakerstreetirregulars.com/" target="_blank">Baker Street Irregulars website</a> at <a href="http://bakerstreetirregulars.com/" target="_blank">bakerstreetirregulars.com</a>.<br /> <br /> If you head over there, you'll see a clearly laid-out page that has links to sections like <a href="https://bakerstreetirregulars.com/the-bsi-press/" target="_blank">BSI Books</a>, including a number of series: Manuscript, International, Events and Expeditions, Professions, History and Biography, and more. There's a section for <a href="https://bakerstreetirregulars.com/bsi-event-dates/" target="_blank">BSI Events</a>, including the BSI Weekend and other special events and expeditions. And of course, the <a href="https://bakerstreetirregulars.com/the-baker-street-journal/" target="_blank">BSJ</a> has its own section as well. The BSI Trust will continue to be maintained as a separate site.<br /> <br /> As with the initial launch of the original BSJ site in 2001, this is a first pass. We're sure there will be improvements along the way. But the clarity that it brings to the Baker Street Irregulars brand is encouraging.<br /> <br /> The time was right — actually, it was downright overdue — to inform the world of all of the wonderful things for which the Baker Street Irregulars are responsible. We hope that, through the hard work of everyone associated with this project, Sherlockians everywhere will appreciate the tireless and unyielding work of keeping green the memory of Sherlock Holmes.<br /> <br /> <br />

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