Billy Fields's Toast to Sherlock Holmes

"To the man who brings us together. Here's to a man who poses a great mystery yet warms us like an old friend, a man who brings people together who would probably have never had the opportunity to gather. Here's to a man we hold reverently as we reflect on his life . . . here's to Sherlock Holmes."


Gael Stahl's Toast to Mrs. Hudson (and Turner)

"She is a woman with no first name.
She is the only major 221-B personage not illustrated by Sidney Paget or any other canonical artist.
She is the preparer of an impromptu breakfast to rival any Scotswoman's.
She is a landlord flexible enough to fill in as cook, porter, message taker, stealth mover of waxen busts to ensnare Sebastian Moran.
She is flexible only to a point when her lodger summons street urchins to be his irregular corps of subcontracted investigators.
She still lives among us in the corporeal shape of her British kinsmen, Terry and Margaret Widlake."
So, we salute the inimitable past and present Mrs. Hudson - and Turner!"


Jerome Boynton's Toast to Past Scholars

"I would like to raise a glass to our fallen comrades, David Bradley, Davice Sharpe, Andy Naff, and Clark Cavett."

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