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The 2019 BSI Dinner

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rnwUlHnV42Q/YPB4WGQPjLI/AAAAAAAAAy8/ASrmDl2BLkYgkoq8Drng56CvI03YJSKHgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/bsi-dinner-2019-v1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="The 2019 BSI Dinner group photo" border="0" data-original-height="1148" data-original-width="1600" height="460" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rnwUlHnV42Q/YPB4WGQPjLI/AAAAAAAAAy8/ASrmDl2BLkYgkoq8Drng56CvI03YJSKHgCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h460/bsi-dinner-2019-v1.jpg" title="Click this 2019 BSI Dinner photo to see a larger version" width="640" /></a></div> Sherlock Holmes’ 165th birthday was marked by traditions honored, accomplishments celebrated, voices new and old heard, and transitions appropriately marked. The pre-Dinner proceedings saw not one but two honors tendered. Nelda Richards was honored as The Woman. Then, Peter Blau was surprised by a Festschrift in honor of the 60th anniversary of his investiture. Charles Prepolec toasted Mrs. Hudson. Bonnie MacBird toasted Mycroft Holmes. Candace Lewis toasted Watson's second wife. Bill Mason toasted the Master, Sherlock Holmes.  Dayna Nuhn led the reading of the Musgrave Ritual.  Susan Rice paid tribute to two Old Irregulars, Clifton Andrew and Lisa McGaw.  Robert Katz read the Constitution and Buy-Laws. Katz and John Bergquist presented “Eddies” to a host of talented editors who produced BSI Press titles: Will Walsh and Donny Zaldin for <a href="https://bakerstreetirregulars.com/2018/12/28/canon-law/">Canon Law</a>; Glen Miranker for <a href="https://bakerstreetirregulars.com/2018/12/30/deadly-harpoon/">Deadly Harpoon</a>, and Les Klinger for <a href="https://bakerstreetirregulars.com/2018/12/26/peter-blau/">Peter E. Blau: A Festschrift</a>.The evening saw a host of informed presentations: Andrew Fusco presented on police detectives. Jenn Eaker presented on dogs in the Canon. Emily Miranker opined on the original Baker Street Irregulars. Nick Martorelli presented on Irene Adler. Francine Kitts led the assembled to “"Stand with me here upon the terrace” to honor members who had passed during the previous year.Nine Irregulars received their Shilling. Before the evening concluded with the resonant spectacle of Ray Betzner reading from a typescript owned by Vincent Starrett of Starrett’s “221B,” Michael Whelan announced a forthcoming leadership transition. In 2020, Michael Kean will succeed him as Wiggins. For the balance of 2019, Kean will assume the role of Commissionaire.  During the next day’s Cocktail Reception at the Yale Club, the renowned legal and lyrical pair, Judge Albert Rosenblatt and Betsy Rosenblatt, delivered their epic summary—in rhyme—of the preceding year.Dinner Details: January 11, 2019The Yale Club, New York <h4 style="text-align: left;">Dinner Photo Information</h4>Click on the above photo to see a larger version of it, and maximize your browser window to see the most detail.Key to People in the 2019 BSI Dinner photo (not available at this time, but see the <a href="http://files.bsitrust.org/pdf/dinner/bsi-dinner-2019-attendees.pdf">2019 Table Seat Assignments</a> PDF). <h4 style="text-align: left;">BSI Honours List</h4>Investitures:Alexander Katz as SarasateJohn Knud-Hansen as This Lascar ScoundrelBrigitte Latella as Holmes’s AlpenstockMichele Lopez as Attenta, PericoloIra B. Matetsky as The Final ProblemTerry McCammon as Young StamfordMike McSwiggin as A Seven Percent SolutionGreg Ruby as Bulldog Pin with Ruby Eyes Monica Schmidt as Julia Stoner<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is an Investiture?</a> Two-Shilling Award:The Two-Shilling Award was not given in 2019.<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is a Two-Shilling Award?</a> The Woman:Nelda Richards (Mrs. Dana S. Richards)<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is The Woman honour?</a> "Stand with me here upon the terrace..."(as named at this Dinner, not their year of passing)Karen Anderson (Emilia Lucca, 2000)John Crotty, (Dr. James Mortimer, 1972)Ronald De Waal (Lomax, the Sub-Librarian, 1969)Reverend Henry Folsam (The Golden Pince-Nez, 1965)David Hammer (Major-General Stoner, 1986)Paul Herbert (Mr. Leverton, of Pinkerton's, 1977)Jack Koelle (The Sussex Vampire, 1965)Thomas Utecht (Arthur Carpentier, 1994)<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is the origin of “standing on the terrace?”</a> Morley-Montgomery Award:Leslie S. Klinger, “The Origins of Sherlock Holmes: Crime Fiction before Conan Doyle”The Baker Street Journal 68.4 (Winter 2018): 6-16.<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is the Morley-Montgomery Award?</a> The BSI Distinguished Speaker Lecture:Ken Ludwig, “The Footprints of a Gigantic Hound”The Baker Street Journal 69.1 (Spring 2019): 48-54.<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is the BSI Distinguished Speaker Lecture?</a> <h4 style="text-align: left;">Reports on the Dinner</h4>The Baker Street Journal 69.1 (Spring 2019): 61-62.<a href="https://bakerstreetirregulars.com/2019/05/22/the-2019-bsi-weekend-report/">The 2019 BSI Weekend Report</a> (BSI website)Blau, Peter, <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/links.html#news">Scuttlebutt from the Spermaceti Press</a>, (January 2019): 1-2.<a href="http://files.bsitrust.org/pdf/dinner/bsi-dinner-2019-attendees.pdf">List of 2019 BSI Dinner Attendees</a> (PDF) <h4 style="text-align: left;">Recordings</h4>A recording of portions of the 2019 BSI Dinner will be available in the<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/archive.html"> BSI Archive</a>. <h4 style="text-align: left;">Related Material</h4><a href="https://files.bakerstreetirregulars.com/events/bsi-weekend-report-2019.pdf">Rosenblatt, Albert M., and Betsy Rosenblatt, “BSI Poem 2019”</a> (PDF at BSI website).  The Rosenblatts’ rhyming retrospective, delivered at the January 12, 2019 Sherlockian Cocktail Reception.Previous dinner: the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2021/03/the-2018-bsi-dinner.html">2018 BSI Dinner</a>Next dinner: the 2020 BSI DinnerFor an index to all BSI Dinners and photos, see our <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/dinner-summary.html">BSI Dinner Summary</a> list. Material in the BSI Archive may be used by any qualified scholar, subject to the normal rules and regulations of the library. For links to a detailed finding aid and related information, see our <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/archive.html">BSI Archive</a> page. Page composed on 1/15/21 by Tamar Zeffren.This page last updated 7/12/21 by Randall Stock.

The 2019 BSI Dinner

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Book Fair 2021 for the BSI Trust

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PQ5TNnxcODg/YMZvzIGZQvI/AAAAAAAAAKU/HMzazNTYzhA5U5L_pzP_kvOBBJVY9HTYgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/book-fair-2021-trust-books.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Some BSI Trust books at the 2021 Book Fair" border="0" data-original-height="915" data-original-width="1600" height="366" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PQ5TNnxcODg/YMZvzIGZQvI/AAAAAAAAAKU/HMzazNTYzhA5U5L_pzP_kvOBBJVY9HTYgCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h366/book-fair-2021-trust-books.jpg" title="Some BSI Trust books at the 2021 Book Fair" width="640" /></a></div> Denny Dobry, proprietor of the 221B Baker Street sitting room re-creation in Reading, Pennsylvania, will be hosting a Book Fair and Open House on Saturday, August 21, 2021. Thousands of books will be available for purchase, including numerous editions of the Canon, pastiches, parodies, non-Sherlockian works by Arthur Conan Doyle, crime and British history reference work, selections from other mystery writers (Christie, Queen, Sayers, Starrett, and more), and an extensive range of Christopher Morley and P. G. Wodehouse titles. In addition, BSI Press publications will be available for sale. Objects such as statues, glassware, mugs, games, jigsaw puzzles, and posters will also be available.  Funds from these purchases will go to support BSI Trust activities. This event will also include an open house, where visitors can experience Denny's meticulous re-creation of the sitting room at 221B.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IgyYd2R71F0/YMZwiw-crwI/AAAAAAAAAKg/ohv7hh038EQUQOt30aZ_0VxHsZgMpcuogCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/book-fair-2021-sitting-room-221b-dobry.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="The 221B sitting room by Denny Dobry" border="0" data-original-height="650" data-original-width="1600" height="260" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IgyYd2R71F0/YMZwiw-crwI/AAAAAAAAAKg/ohv7hh038EQUQOt30aZ_0VxHsZgMpcuogCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h260/book-fair-2021-sitting-room-221b-dobry.jpg" title="The 221B sitting room by Denny Dobry (click to enlarge)" width="640" /></a></div>The 221B sitting room by Denny Dobry<h4 style="text-align: left;">Event Details</h4>Date: Saturday, August 21, 2021Time: 10am EDT - end of dayLocation: 5003 Stony Run Drive, Reading, PA, 19606<a href="https://goo.gl/maps/e6M5v8EVj1Esd3Tm9" rel="nofollow">Google Map</a> Reading is located 100 miles from Manhattan, 80 miles from Baltimore, and 40 miles from Philadelphia.The hours of this event will be from 10:00am until everyone is gone. Lunch will be provided. Denny can also organize housing for out-of-town visitors who wish to stay over on Friday and/or Saturday nights. Denny is holding this event in accordance with Pennsylvania's current pandemic mitigation measures.Questions: email Denny at <<a href="mailto:dendobry@ptd.net">dendobry@ptd.net</a>>Register: email Denny at <<a href="mailto:dendobry@ptd.net">dendobry@ptd.net</a>> Any event news/updates will be shared with registered attendees and posted to Denny's Facebook page.Plan to Attend!August 21, 2021, 10am EDT - end of day<div> </div><div> </div><div> </div>

Book Fair 2021 for the BSI Trust

Denny Dobry, proprietor of the 221B Baker Street sitting room re-creation in Reading, Pennsylvania, will be hosting a Book Fair and Open Hou...

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Save the Date: 2021 Online Lecture

The BSI Trust will inaugurate an annual lecture series in October 2021. The first annual BSI Trust Lecture will be delivered via Zoom webinar by Roberta Pearson, Professor of Film and Television Studies in the School of Cultures, Languages, and Area Studies at the University of Nottingham. Saturday, October 2, 2021 at 2pm Eastern Daylight Time (New York) <ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Online using Zoom</li><li>Open to all Sherlockians & the public</li><li>Free – no registration fee</li></ul>While the Lecture is free, advance registration will be required.  Watch this website for details, or to get notified via email when we open registration, sign up via the BSI website for our free "<a href="https://bakerstreetirregulars.com/bsi-news-via-email">News from the BSI</a>" email alerts.If you are not sure if you've previously signed up for News for the BSI, just submit your email address again via the above link.Please note the event time reflects the USA's Daylight Saving Time.  We estimate the event will last approximately 1.5 hours.Save the DateOctober 2, 2021 at 2pm EDT <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AJdjs7w_9Pg/YKP8eYRp9OI/AAAAAAAAAKM/XNsfsl8TdeUEjJLXYz6RrsWn8ofCoeqMACLcBGAsYHQ/s200/BSI-logo-profile.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="BSI logo profile" border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="200" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AJdjs7w_9Pg/YKP8eYRp9OI/AAAAAAAAAKM/XNsfsl8TdeUEjJLXYz6RrsWn8ofCoeqMACLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/BSI-logo-profile.png" /></a></div>

Save the Date: 2021 Online Lecture

The BSI Trust will inaugurate an annual lecture series in October 2021. The first annual BSI Trust Lecture will be delivered via Zoom webina...

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Spring 2021 Newsletter

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The Spring 2021 newsletter includes these articles: 
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<li>From the Chair by Thomas A. Horrocks.</li>
<li>"What Can I Do With All Those Duplicates?" by Peter E. Blau.</li>
<li>From the Editor by Michael Pollak.</li>
<li>Added to the Archives by Bob Coghill.</li>
<li>Moving Into the Renovated Lilly Library by Erika Dowell. </li>

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The 2018 BSI Dinner

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hk3GWvbbSGE/YEpo0Zha-6I/AAAAAAAAAx8/GE0solTMijQ21ytk2ZRzvw5t93vsVZUjwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/bsi-dinner-2018-v1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="The 2018 BSI Dinner group photo" border="0" data-original-height="1146" data-original-width="1600" height="458" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hk3GWvbbSGE/YEpo0Zha-6I/AAAAAAAAAx8/GE0solTMijQ21ytk2ZRzvw5t93vsVZUjwCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h458/bsi-dinner-2018-v1.jpg" title="Click this 2018 BSI Dinner photo to see a larger version" width="640" /></a></div> Sherlock Holmes’ 164th birthday showcased a dizzying array of artistic and intellectual tributes to the Master’s memory.Prior to the Dinner, Patricia Izban was honored as The Woman. Michael J. Quigley toasted the long-suffering Mrs. Hudson. Tamar Zeffren offered the toast to Mycroft Holmes.  Donny Zaldin honored Watson's second wife. Richard Kitts toasted the guest of honor, Sherlock Holmes.  Curtis Armstrong led the responsive reading of the Musgrave Ritual.  Jerry Margolin paid tribute to an Old Irregular, Norman Nolan.  Hartley Nathan read the Constitution and Buy-Laws.Guests were then treated to “intriguing” presentations attesting to the wide range of subject mastery evident among the assembled Irregulars. Ross Davies, accompanied by visual aids, demonstrated the Allies’ stratagems for circulating their literature undetected in gift boxes. Maria Fleischhack lectured on Germans in the Canon and methods of disguise. Will Walsh plumbed the depths of submarine warfare. Francine Kitts led the assembled to “Stand with me here upon the terrace” to honor Irregulars who had passed during the previous year.Ten Irregulars then received their Shilling. John Linsenmeyer, former Baker Street Journal editor, was honored with the Two-Shilling Award. The evening concluded with the traditional recital of Vincent Starrett’s “221B.”Attendees had a near-immediate opportunity to recap the previous evening’s events, as well as the preceding 12 months, at Saturday’s Cocktail Reception at the Yale Club. The formidable legal and poetic team of Judge Albert Rosenblatt and Betsy Rosenblatt performed their masterful and anticipated-year-round poetic rhymed synopsis of the previous year and of the Birthday Weekend.Dinner Details: January 12, 2018The Yale Club, New York <h4 style="text-align: left;">Dinner Photo Information</h4>Click on the above photo to see a larger version of it, and maximize your browser window to see the most detail.Key to People in the 2018 BSI Dinner photo (not available at this time, but see the <a href="http://files.bsitrust.org/pdf/dinner/bsi-dinner-2018-attendees.pdf" target="">2018 Table Seat Assignments</a> PDF). <h4 style="text-align: left;">BSI Honours List</h4>Investitures:Shannon Carlisle as Beacons of the Future!Dean Clark as Watson’s JournalDenny Dobry as A Single, Large Airy Sitting RoomMaria Fleischhack as RacheJeffrey Hatcher as The Five Orange PipsAnastasia Klimchynskaya as An Old Russian WomanCandace J. Lewis as A Little Art JargonNick Martorelli as Seventeen StepsRebecca Romney as That Gap on the Second ShelfAl Shaw as Sir Hugo Baskerville<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html" target="">What is an Investiture?</a> Two-Shilling Award:John Linsenmeyer<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is a Two-Shilling Award?</a> The Woman:Patricia Izban (Mrs. Donald B. Izban)<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is The Woman honour?</a> "Stand with me here upon the terrace..."(as named at this Dinner, not their year of passing)Ted Bergman (Honourable Philip Green, 1978)Ted Friedman (The Commonplace Book, 1995)Barry Hapner (Inspector Forrester, 1983)Morris Lebowitz (Arthur H. Staunton, the Forger, 1970)Robert Moss (The Case of Fairdale Hobbs, 1977)Donald Yates (Mr. Melas, later changed to The Greek Interpreter, 1972)<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is the origin of “standing on the terrace?”</a> Morley-Montgomery Award:Susan E. Bailey, "Whitehall Place Irregulars: Female Searchers and Suspects in Nineteenth-century London" The Baker Street Journal 67:1 (Spring 2017): 24-31.<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is the Morley-Montgomery Award?</a> The BSI Distinguished Speaker Lecture:Martin Edwards, “Sherlock Holmes and the Detection Club”The Baker Street Journal 68.1 (Spring 2018): 28-35.<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is the BSI Distinguished Speaker Lecture?</a> <h4 style="text-align: left;">Reports on the Dinner</h4>The Baker Street Journal 68.1 (Spring 2018): 48-58.Blau, Peter, <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/links.html#news">Scuttlebutt from the Spermaceti Press</a>, (January 2018): 1-2.<a href="http://files.bsitrust.org/pdf/dinner/bsi-dinner-2018-attendees.pdf">List of 2018 BSI Dinner Attendees</a> (PDF) <h4 style="text-align: left;">Recordings</h4>A recording of portions of the 2018 BSI Dinner will be available in the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/archive.html">BSI Archive</a>. <h4 style="text-align: left;">Related Material</h4>Rosenblatt, Albert M., and Betsy Rosenblatt, “BSI Poem 2018,” The Baker Street Journal 68.1 (Spring 2018): 58-62. The Rosenblatts’ rhyming retrospective, delivered at the January 13, 2018 Sherlockian Cocktail Reception. Previous dinner: the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2018/11/the-2017-bsi-dinner.html">2017 BSI Dinner</a>Next dinner: the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2021/07/the-2019-bsi-dinner.html">2019 BSI Dinner</a>For an index to all BSI Dinners and photos, see our <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/dinner-summary.html">BSI Dinner Summary</a> list. Material in the BSI Archive may be used by any qualified scholar, subject to the normal rules and regulations of the library. For links to a detailed finding aid and related information, see our <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/archive.html">BSI Archive</a> page. Page composed on 1/15/21 by Tamar Zeffren.This page last updated 3/1/21 by Randall Stock.<div> </div>

The 2018 BSI Dinner

Sherlock Holmes’ 164th birthday showcased a dizzying array of artistic and intellectual tributes to the Master’s memory. Prior to the Dinner...

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Fall 2020 Newsletter

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The Fall 2020 newsletter includes these articles: 
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<li>From the Chair by Thomas A. Horrocks.</li>
<li>'What Can I Do?' by Leslie S. Klinger.</li>
<li>From the Editor by Michael Pollak.</li>
<li>Update on Lilly Library Renovation by Erika Dowell. </li>
<li>Added to the Archives.</li>
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