Remembering The Duchess of Holdernesse by Susan Rice Addie died on June 23rd, leaving behind an ashen ghost of graciousness to all who knew her. She dressed most frequently in simple tailored suits appropriate to her professional attainments, but I always thought she looked like the good queen in a fairy tale and had no trouble […]
Remembering Hatty Doran (BSI: The Wigmore Street Post Office) by Evelyn Herzog Francine Swift was Francine Morris when we first met back in the early 1970s. She was a recently-arrived resident of Washington, D.C., and an enthusiastic member of The Red Circle, a group I visited as often as possible. Francine was a university librarian, […]
Remembering Shag (BSI: The Norwood Builder) A Brief Appreciation by Evelyn Herzog ASH, BSI and M.E. Rich, ASH, BSI At first glance, Tom Stix was not the kind of person you’d have expected to become an Adventuress of Sherlock Holmes. In appearance, he certainly was not a typical member. Yet, when we consider the characteristics […]
Remembering The Hotel du Louvre, Paris Fond Memories by Francine Kitts “We’ll always have Paris.” That was the mantra we adopted after Jan and I spent a week there together this year — and yes, it was in April. It was my first trip to Paris and we stayed in Jan and Al’s charming apartment […]
Remembering Arcadia (BSI: The Hans Sloan of My Age) Other links for John Bennett Shaw A nice remembrance of JBS from Jim Hawkins of the Nashville Scholars. John was one of the three men initially invested in ASH: the excerpt below from a paper by JBS in the Baker Street Journal (one of a series of papers […]
Remembering Mrs. Hudson, 1924 – 1999 by Dorothy K. Stix Dorothy was born in New York State and raised both in New York and Florida. She had fond memories of New York and made quite a few visits back to her home state. In May of 1969, she married John Bennett Shaw. It was the […]
Remembering Beryl Garcia by Maureen Green with comments by Kate Karlson Ann Patricia (Rothery) Skene-Melvin, M.Bt., ASH (Beryl Garcia), spent most of her last five years bravely battling cancer and supporting cancer research. She departed peacefully on April 9, 2003. Ann was born to Yorkshire parents in Trinidad where her father worked for a British […]
Remembering The Right Honourable Trelawney Hope by Susan Rice Mike passed through the Reichenbach on January 27th of 2014. He had moved through life for five years with the aid of an electric cart, but he walked through the Falls on his own. Mike graduated from MIT with a degree in electrical engineering, and his […]
Remembering A Practical Handbook of Bee Culture, with Some Observations Upon the Segregation of the Queen by Evelyn Herzog On September 28, 2020, the world lost an outstanding Sherlockian, Susan Rice. ASH lost one of its dearest members, invested in 1981 as “Practical Handbook of Bee Culture, with Some Observations Upon the Segregation of the […]
Remembering An Impish Habit by Sue Vizoskie Warren Randall, ASH (An Impish Habit), BSI (Harold Stackhurst), died on January 26, 2021 at the age of 85. Warren was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, and, at an early age, he moved to the Bronx with his family. He graduated from Bronx High School of Science and […]