Our hardy group shares the love of the "grand illusion" and the comraderie that comes from braving the foggy streets of London to climb the 17 stairs at 221B Baker Street and sit by the fire with Holmes and Watson. The pleasures are many and we welcome anyone with the passion for these armchair adventures. Come join us and toast the Master and his supporting cast. The Denizens meet regularly on a biannual basis.

The Fall Meeting will be held on Saturday, November 1st of 2008.

Our Fall Meeting at the Cambridge Yacht Club will be all it can be as the fog rolls in and shrouds that third hansom whose passenger is so familiar to us all. Festivities will begin at 6 PM with a cash bar and proceed to an evening of Sherlockian entertainment.

Your invitation to the November 1st meeting is just a click away. The Denizens' logo below is your ticket to fun and adventure, click it and join us as Holmes and Watson investigate the conundrum of the Cardboard Box.

the Denizens' Logo

A Synopsis of the Spring Meeting from April 12th, 2008 is available for viewing.

A Scintillation of Scions

"Excellent, Watson! You scintillate to-day."

Watson's Tin Box of Ellicott City, Md., will host a gathering

of Mid-Atlantic/East Coast scion societies for fun, scholarship and socializing

from 1:30 to 6:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 16, 2008,

at Amherst House, 7251 Eden Brook Drive, Columbia, Md. 21046

* Keynote speaker: Peter Blau * Scholarly presentations

* Limerick contest open to all attendees * Afternoon tea

* Dramatic presentation: "The Adventure of the Second Fiddle," starring Sherlock Holmes

Note: Registration is limited to 75 participants * Registration fee: $10 per person

* Download the registration form. *

For information, contact Jacquelynn Morris, Gasogene XIX, at watsonstinbox@aol.com

Call for papers for "A Scintillation of Scions"

We offer an opportunity to those who wish to present an original scholarly Sherlockian paper. Seven spots for speakers will be available, and we hope to have at least one representative from as many different scions as possible. We require a précis of each proposed paper, about 200 words in length, to be sent to Beth Austin for vetting; these must be received by e-mail or snail-mail not later than May 15, 2008. By June 1, Beth will review the proposals and notify those invited to speak. Include your name, phone number, address and e-mail address. Send to: Beth Austin, 9455 Chadburn Place, Gaithersburg, MD 20886. By e-mail: baustin@buildersdesign.com

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I Hear Of Sherlock Everywhere....The Scott Monty Podcast

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William Gillette as Sherlock Holmes

The Canon	Junior Denizens of the Bar of Gold	The Bar of Gold
Baker Street Blog	The Baker Street Irregulars Trust	221Blog:Questioning the Canon
Disjecta Membra	Wikipedia - Sherlock Holmes	Laurie King on Holmes
Sherlock Holmes-Paranormal Investigator	The Sherlock Holmes Society of London	A Study In Sherlock
The Baker Street Dozen Pillows	Baker Street Dozen	The Ribston-Pippins
Radio Detective Story Hour	The Beacon Society	A Study in Sherlock
Crime Writers: The List	Sherlock Holmes Top Sites	Monsieur Lecoq
The World of Mr. Sherlock Holmes	Arthur Conan Doyle Collection Languishing	The tangled Web
Blakiana-The Sexton Blake Resource	The Internet Archives of Old Radio Shows	Spermaceti Press
Bibi's Box	Sherlock Holmes Public Library

The 2008 BSI Week end

The Baker Street Irregulars' Annual Meeting will commence Wednesday, January 9th. Scott Monty has created a blog that catalogs all of the events for the weekend. Click here and come join the fun.

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1993 Easton Life Magazine Article Star Democrat-Addicted to Sherlock

Sherlock Holmes, literature's most popular character, is alive and well on Maryland's Eastern Shore. Sherlockians Joe and Chris Wilke and Mary Ann Bradley and Mike Whelan are organizing a program and dinner for a new Baker Street Irregulars' scion called

"The Denizens of the Bar of Gold"

at the Tidewater Inn on Saturday evening December 11th, 1993. This scion (son of) will be one of over 200 literary societies loosely associated with the Baker Street Irregulars, the parent organization founded by Christopher Morley in New York City in 1934.

The Bar of Gold gets its name from the notorious opium den in the Holmes short story, "The Man with the Twisted Lip." In Holmes' own words, he described it

"We (Holmes and Watson) should be rich men if we had 1000 pounds for every poor devil who has been put to death in that den. It is the vilest murder trap in the whole riverside...."

The Poem The Beggar

 .....And so it begins!

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Bookmark us and visit from time to time to see what new things our scion is investigating. In the meantime if you're looking for things Sherlockian visit our Disjecta Membra page and browse.

The Poem A Long Evening With Holmes by William P. Schweickert, B.S.I. encompasses the grand illusion

Vincent Starrett Reads the Poem 221B

 

 

 

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