The Adventuresses of Sherlock Holmes Request the Pleasure of Your Company at the Annual Autumn Meeting Saturday 21 November 2026 at One O’Clock PM This Celebration Will be Held at Tony’s di Napoli Restaurant1081 Third Avenue (at 64th Street), New York City We Will Be Dining on the Lower Level – The Front Door Attendant Can […]
The highlight of the Return of Sherlock Holmes Statue Festival 1999 in September was the Unveiling Ceremony, which took place on Thursday morning, September 23, 1999, at 11:30 a.m. Sherlockians (American Holmesians) and Holmesians (British Sherlockians) had assembled in the special enclosure on Marylebone Road, at the Baker Street Underground station just off the corner of Baker […]
On 25 August 2001, eight intrepid Adventuresses set sail on the Princess Danae on the Sherlock Holmes Society of London’s Jubilee Cruise. The eight seafarers were (back row, left to right) Marina Stajic, Sue Vizoskie, Maureen van der Flaes, Julie McKuras, (front row) Susan Diamond, Marilynne McKay, Evelyn Herzog, and Marsha Pollak. The entire group […]
In April, many Adventuresses participated enthusiastically in the Springtime in Baker Street weekend, which was brilliantly coordinated and executed by Bob and Terry Thomalen. Susan Rice gave a fascinating and thought-provoking talk on Sherlock Holmes and the “Great Game,” while Carol Fish closed out the weekend with a moving reading of William Schweikert’s “A Long […]
You are Cordially Invited ASH’s Spring Luncheon Meeting will be held on Saturday 17 May 2025 in New York City. This Celebration Will be Held at: Tony’s di Napoli Restaurant1081 Third Avenue (at 64th Street), New York City We Will Be Dining on the Lower Level – The Front Door Attendant Can Provide Stair-Free Access via a Ramp […]
Remembering Laura Lyons, 1921 – 1999 by Maribeau Briggs The first time I met Lynn Willis was at a memorial service for Bob Brodie. I’d never met Bob, but everyone at the gathering was downcast. When it came time for eulogizing, no one wanted to speak first. After an uncomfortable silence, a diminutive lady sporting […]
Remembering The Third Cab, 1921 – 2005 by Dorothy K. Stix with comments by Susan Rice When I first met her, people called her Margaret or Marge. Tom and Marge met when they both worked for the same book store, long before I came on the scene. She was a friend not only to Tom, but also […]
Remembering A Bijou Villa Editors’ Note: Our thanks go to ASHes Evelyn Herzog, Bob Katz, Andy Peck, and Ben and Sue Vizoskie who contributed to this remembrance of Glorya. Glorya Wachs, ASH, A Bijou Villa, passed away on February 15, 2015. She joined ASH in 2005. She was also a member of the Epilogues of Sherlock […]
Remembering Montague Street by Peter Crupe Thom Utecht passed away on November 9, 2018, after a long battle with MS and a lengthy hospital stay. I first met Thom at a John Bennett Shaw workshop held at the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken NJ. Subsequently in the fall of 1985, along with Larry Feldman […]
Remembering Violet Smith by Paula Cohen With the passing of Barbara Iris Ulan Van Buskirk (Violet Smith) on August 30th, 2006, the Sherlockian world, and the world in general, lost a dear, sharp, funny, bright, and wonderfully talented member and friend. I met Barbara on a drizzly November 1975 evening at an establishment on 56th […]