Nashville Scholars Adventures

One of the annual events the Nashville Scholars has been involved with is the Gathering of Southern Sherlockians in Chattanooga, TN, hosted by Kent Ross from Georgia. Joel and Carolyn Senter keep an excellent pictorial record of the event each year. Click here for the past years photos and a preview of what's in store for the event in 2010.

MAJORING IN THE MEMOIRS
APRIL 16 - 18, 2010
Chattanooga, Tennessee

Presentations by:

Kenneth Carr  *  Bill Mason * Richard Green  *  David Hayes

David Milner  * Butch Turbert * Rich Vitaris, Quiz * David McCallister

Marino Alvarez * David Hammer * Marilynne McKay * Joshua Green

Costs:
Registration – $50 (post-marked by April 1, 2009) After April 1 – $60
Banquet & Program – $50
Holmes Commemorative Pin – $5 (if registered) or $10 (non-registrants)
A Block of Rooms at the Read House @ $119 will be held until March 10, 2010
(Registrations to Hotel directly 866-837-4193 – request Special Sherlock Holmes Rate, or On-line)

Send Registration Fee, Banquet & Program Fee, and Commemorative Pin Order with Check Payable to:
Kent Ross – 721 Hartford Dr. – Springfield, OH 45503
Questions Call – 937-360-2527

For the past several years, we've had a summer picnic at Gael and Susan Stahl's place on the lake.
This year we did something a little different for the non-eating part of the afternoon: we read a play, a radio play.

July 2009 picnic
Edith Meiser (see this story in the New York Times) did a radio play on The Musgrave Ritual, so we decided to do a Reader's Theatre of the script. Not having a good way to do sound effect outside at Gael's home, we just let everyone do whatever came to them each time a sound effect was called for. That was one of the best parts of the joint effort. At one point the characters are in a crypt under the house and the sound effect called for echos. We have several echoes going after each spoken line until Holmes and Brunton got out of the hole.

Gael Stahl (standing) is serving cookies to Tom and Anita Feller at Gael and Susan's home. This was a pot luck, and lots of great food was brought for the afternoon, some of it in the style of food mentioned in the Holmes canon.

Two other pictures from the event. (I was eating and reading and not taking many pictures, obviously!)

Charlie Williams, Patsy King, and Mary Margarette Jordan

Two Susans: Stahl (left) and Hawkins (right)

Nashville Scholars Adventures and Trips

Other Adventures: Hawkins at Sherlock Holmes Pub, London (1997)

Nashville Scholars travel all over the world visiting other Sherlockian scions and individuals. This part of our website will record our visits to places outside Nashville and Tennessee. One of our favorite travels annually is to the Sherlock Holmes Birthday celebration in New York City, hosted by the Baker Street Irregulars since the early 1930's. Not all of us go each year. Usually two, three, or a few more show up at the Algonquin Hotel headquarters to meet and greet friends we haven't seen in several months or years. The slide show below was taken from photographs taken in January 2009 of our visit to New York's Sherlockian environs.

Nashville Scholars in New York City for the Gaslight Gala and the BSI Annual Holmes Birthday Celebration

You'll see McSorley's Pub, Otto Penzler's Mysterious Bookshop, and friends dining at the Red Flame cafe, a favorite meeting place next door to the Algonquin Hotel. This slide show will give you a front row seat at the Gaslight Gala (click link for more information), one of two dinners honoring Sherlock Holmes in New York each January. (Holmes birthday is Jan 6, 1854, but you knew that, didn't you!)

You'll see Nashville Scholars Marino & Vicki Alvarez, Billy Fields, and Jim Hawkins. Also shown are Jim Cox (CA), Susan Dahlinger (NY), Alan Devitt & wife Susan Diamond (IL), Steven Doyle (IN), Don Hobbs (TX), Don Izban and his wife Barbara (IL), Alex Katz (NY), Leslie Klinger (CA), Sandy Kozinn (NJ), Marilynne McKay (GA), Gordon Speck (IN), the Nivers (CT) who recreate William Gillette each summer at the Gillette Castle in Connecticut, Joanne Zahorsky-Reeves and her husband Robert (CA) who always delight a Sherlockian crowd, Otto Penzler (with Fields in his Mysterious Bookshop in NYC), and Becky Robare & Tim Evers (not sure? where) performing a radio play.

International Sherlockians are in the slideshow as well. You'll see Bill Barnes (Sydney Passengers / Australia), Canadian friends (Toronto Bootmakers Society / Canada), and Roger Johnson (England) who edits The District Messenger, journal of The Sherlock Holmes Society of London. Quite a list!

If you would like to see the slideshow slide by slide with captions (in a new browser), please visit our Adobe Photoshop Express page. We'll soon have a slideshow and photos featuring our local Nashville Scholars at our annual Holmes Birthday Dinner here in Nashville. Come back soon!