Each year we provide an essay topic in a special birthday edition of the Muse which is distributed at the BSI dinner and the Gaslight Gala. The Assignment 2009 will definitely be The Year of the Horse in Sherlockian circles with the running of the 50th annual Chicago Silver Blaze in conjunction with the BSI Triennial Silver […]
ASH played a prominent role throughout the weekend which began with the traditional ASH Wednesday gathering at O’Casey’s. The next morning Doré Nash co-hosted the Morley walk with her usual panache. On Friday the Gillette luncheon was again hosted by Susan Rice in conjunction with Mickey Fromkin. S.E. Dahlinger spoke briefly about her William Gillette […]
THE ADVENTURE OF HOLMES’ SHORTEST CASE by Greg Darek I have mentioned before how Mr. Sherlock Holmes had decorated our rooms in Baker Street by shooting a patriotic “V.R.” into the wall with his revolver. Early one morning in the April of ’91, he had just started inventing a new design for the wall by […]
The traditional toasts were given to, and by, the following:k the Queen, Mickey Fromkin; Irene Adler, Paula & Mike Riezenman; Sherlock Holmes, Joe Moran; John Watson, Peter Crupe; Arthur Conan Doyle, John Baesch; and friendship, M.E. Rich. Special toasts on the theme of our Chinese venue included Lynn Walker on General Charles “Chinese” Gordon, Philip […]
Approximately forty ASH and friends gathered at Bill’s Gay Nineties Restaurant in Manhattan on May 31 for the annual spring meeting. This year’s gathering was a luncheon instead of the traditional dinner. We welcomed enthusiastically many of the nineteen newly-announced male ASH. Each attendee received a beautiful handmade Sherlockian note card from Pj Doyle, and […]
“A VISIT TO 104 BERKELEY SQUARE“(With apologies to Vincent Starrett)* by Warren Randall Here dwell together still the General—and Vi,Vi! who never lived ‘neath Bertie’s iron grip.How very hard she seemed to transmogrifyThat age before the Baron’s acid trip.But still the game is love for her, demure,Attuned to overlook his checkered past;Bertie is Bertie, yet […]
Each year we provide an essay topic in a special birthday edition of the Muse which is distributed at both New York dinners and posted on the ASH website. The Assignment: Write a Sherlockian haiku. Entries should follow the typical American 17-syllable, 3-line structure: five syllables in the first and third lines and seven syllables […]
Sherlock Holmes birthday celebrations are held in New York and London the first two full weekends in January (the order varies between the two cities to enable fun-loving Sherlockians to “cross the pond” and attend both). ASH events bookend the New York Weekend with an informal dinner on ASH Wednesday and a Sunday brunch. Sherlock […]
Over 50 Adventuresses and friends gathered at Moran’s in NYC on December 1. Thanks go to ASH Paulette Green who donated nineteen copies of Trevor Hall’s The Last Case of Sherlock Holmes to be given out in a drawing. We mourned the loss of Francine Morris Swift and heard the traditional toasts: the Queen, Mickey […]
Approximately fifty Adventuresses and friends attended the Spring Dinner at Moran’s. The traditional toasts were given: Mickey Fromkin, The Queen; Peter Crupe, Irene; Delia Vargas, Holmes; Jeff Bradway, Watson; Elyse Locurto, Conan Doyle; and Ben and Sue Vizoskie, Friendship. Special toasts were given to three midsummer cases: Marilynne McKay, CARD; Susan Rice, BLAC; and Kate […]