Up Coming Events
October Meeting: October 18 at the Pub
Eat @ 12 Meeting to start around 1 pm
Story ~ His Last Bow
Quizmaster ~ Mary Margarette Jordan

November Meeting: November 15
(Plot 2004 meeting schedule in November)

Southern Book Festival / October 10-13, 2003
See Who will be here!! Check out their site at
http://www.tn-humanities.org/sfbmain.htm

From Gillette to Brett:
SH on Stage, Screen, and Radio.
Indianapolis, Nov 7-9, 2003
web site details

December 13: Holiday Party at the Fellers

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Rasher's Table: 8 a.m. This SATURDAY Only
Southern Festival of Book Kickoff


Breakfast Saturday, Oct 11,
Provence at the Main Library, 8:00 am.
. For details, contact Davice.

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Davis-Kidd Booksellers
promote Sherlock Holmes
photos of evidence here

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LION Main Topic for
Nashville Scholars at the Pub
By Scriber Kay Blocker

Nashville Scholars met September 20th for food and Sherlockian fare. In attendance were: Gael Stahl, Dean Richardson, Davice Sharpe, Bill Baker, Mary Margarette Jordan, and Kay Blocker.
The meeting was brought to order with blowing of Canonical whistle by Davice. The first order of business was discussion of the Scholars October meeting. It had been suggested that we might meet for lunch/dinner Saturday October 11 downtown during the book festival. It was proposed that since Provence in the library opened early Saturday, we would meet for breakfast in lieu of Saturday lunch/dinner. This Saturday breakfast would stand for the regular Rasher breakfast, i.e., Rashers would not meet on Friday.
It was also proposed that we have our regular October meeting on October 18th. A motion was made and accepted for these proposals (no October 10 Rashers breakfast, breakfast 8am October 11 at Provence at the Main Library; have regular October 18th meeting). The schedule for the book festival is available online and promises a good agenda. Sisters in Crime will have two panels. Also featured will be Sena Jeter Naslund, the author of Sherlock in Love and Ahab in Love). Garrison Keillor will be speaking Sunday. Davice mentioned that she had talked to the Sisters group about how to host a panel and will continue with her investigation with Klinger/publishers.
Bill brought his usual bag of free books for everyone. Gael brought the article describing the discovery of a gigantic prehistoric guinea pig fossil, most assuredly the ancestor of the Giant Rat of Sumatra.
Dean brought the newest edition of Sherlock and pointed out an advertisement for the latest Grenada SH release that will complete the Jeremy Britt SH DVD collection. It is not yet available in the US; these are sold first in the UK. Dean mentioned that Sherlock magazine is available at Davis Kidd and the Cool Springs Borders. Dean passed around a book of Joseph Clement Coll's early art from the 1900s (included were illustrations from The Lost World). He has bought this as well as a copy of SH on Screen by A. Barnes from an Edward R. Hamilton catalog of mail order books. http://www.edwardrhamilton.com/ is their website but Dean cautioned that everything in catalog is not on the site and vice versa. A big plus of ERH is their fixed shipping charge $3.50 regardless of order size.

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meeting report continued...

In talking about art books, it was mentioned that there is an animated art exhibit at Centennial going on now. Gael pointed out that Nashville has or is close to several small museums such as the tobacco and toy museums, teapot exhibit, and the Corvette museum.
Gael and Kay presented a treasury report. Scholars may contact Kay for this information. Mary Margarette asked that a list of everyone's Canonical names be prepared and made available for members. Gael volunteered to do this. The October meeting story will be His Last Bow, the final story in the Baring-Gould chronology. For discussion at October or November meeting is what to read next year-it was suggested that we might read some of the pastiches or other non-Canonical SH material. We have now been through the BG Annotated twice.
The quiz of the day was The Lion's Mane with Gael Stahl as Quizmaster-see below for quiz. It was a little tougher going this week as we were presented with two quizzes-a story quiz and a second non-Canonical quiz. On the whole, we all fared rather well.
Gael presented his own experience with a Portuguese Man O' War jelly fish in Daytona Beach in June 1968. He heartedly agreed with SH' diagnosis that a person with a heart condition would not survive the attack.
The question of what "card case" referred to was answered by Bill Baker who said it was most probably a calling card case and may have made of pressed horn. Cases were similar to matchbook covers today and would have advertisements like pictures of establishments.
There was discussion about the Oxford comments that the dog being thrown through the window referring to a Welsh terrier and not an Airedale because of the size. Most agreed that a large person could do this.
There was the question of what kind of image SH had of McPherson. Bill said this was a photo as photo negatives had been used since the Civil War. Another comment was that SH had switched to tea in LION while he had always drunk coffee in the Canon.
Gael's story quiz may be found below. The meeting was adjourned following discussion.
The October story will be His Last Bow. Quizmaster is Mary Margarette Jordan The meeting will be at the Pub; eat at noon, meeting at 1pm.

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Quiz for The Lion's Mane
A Quiz by Gael Stahl

1. What is the view from Sherlock Holmes' retirement home?

2. What is the difference between a shingle and a strand?

3. What is the nature of SH's friendship with Harold Stackhurst? Does this gift for friendship ring true?
Was there any sign of this before he retired? (for discussion)

4. What is the new sport of SH?

5. Pasticheurs should cringe at what SH's declaration in this story?

6. Do you think Maud Bellamy had the effect of SH that he describes: "but I could not look upon her perfect clear-cut delicate colouring, without realizing that no young man would cross her path unscathed". How old was SH at the time?

7. I was surprised to see the famous line, "this tangled skein" in this story. Does it remind you any other literary use of this phrase?

8. What other phrase deliberately harkens back to perhaps SH's most famous phrase twice?

9. On one page, an incident moves Holmes to use five references to the dark on one page. Do you remember the scene?