Sept Pub Meeting, continued
by Kay Blocker

Joan had brought back several pictures including the school museum containing ACD's desk carved with his initials and a picture of Gillette as Holmes drawn by Fredric Dorr Steele.
Gael mentioned that he had received a phone call from Jack Paget, the nephew of Sidney Paget. Jack had once visited Gael here in Nashville. Gael read an excerpt from Courageous Women published in the Serpentine Muse. Gael said David Hammer will be stopping over in Nashville first of September. Dinner with David and the Scholars will be September 2nd at Ellendale restaurant. [Susan Diamond of Chicago was in town that night and joined us there as well as at the next Friday's Rashers breakfast.]
Anita and Tom Feller had recently attended the Chattanooga Scifi Con and would be going to Atlanta's Dracon (with an expected attendance of 25,000!!) There would be SH items such as a SH play one night. [The play was cancelled because the actors had another performance - hence no review. Sorry.]

Dean presented Holmes and Watson figurines that he had purchased in New Orleans (look for more details in Shinwell Before Using, below). Dean passed around new DVDs: The Triumph of SH; The Sign of the Hour, and Murder at the Baskervilles. These can be found locally at Borders, Towers, or Media Play. It was mentioned that Sherlock magazine could be found at the Cool Springs Borders location and that the Naxos audiotapes could be found at The Great Escape and Sam's store. Dean said the Rathbone SH collection is to be re-released at some point.

There will be no formal October meeting, as the Southern Festival of Books will be occurring. We'll plan on meeting for dinner downtown, time and place to be decided later. Mulligans and Provence were suggestions; Billy will check on and present details at the September meeting. At last year's festival, Davice had talked to the Klinger Annotated publisher, W.W. Norton, about the possibility of Klinger coming to the festival in 2004. The Nashville Scholars would host his session but Norton would pay for Les' trip as part of the book's promotion. Several members volunteered to pay for his hotel room. A motion was made that Davice would work on possible arrangements for Klinger's visit to Nashville's 2004 book festival. 2004 SFB planning starts early next January. The motion was passed; there were no dissenting votes.

If only Holmes and Watson could have read Plugs and Dottles...Holmes would not have balled it up and tossed it on the luggage rack!




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