Our hardy group shares the love of the "grand game" 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. The Denizens meet regularly
on a biannual (Fall and Spring) basis.
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
Morleyin 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...."
Our Fall Meetingon
October 15th of 2011 at the Cambridge Yacht Club was all
it could be as the fog rolled in and shrouded that third hansom whose
passenger is so familiar to us all..
If you need to
reach me, Art Renkwitz, to find out more about the Denizens or to join
us at any of our meetings, then just click the Send E-Mail! below.
