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Heads up, Watsonians: we have a different time for meeting this month! This month, we will be meeting on October 18th (the third Sunday) at 4pm ET/3pm CT. Please note that we are meeting two hours later than normal.

Micah Cover (JHWS “Trick”) is producing a play, “The Last Case of Doctor Watson,” with the South Downers. You can watch it on Zoom (link yet to come) that same Sunday at 2pm ET/1pm CT, and then join us after the play is done for a Q&A with Micah!

(Yes, this means that discussing The Hound of the Baskervilles will have to wait until next year.)

All Sherlockians welcome! Register at this link to join: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/K42G5KjFSsaw4vVYMCSShQ

View halloo! Have you registered yet for our meeting next Sunday, the 27th, at 2pm ET/1pm CT? We have a little treat for you.

Mary O’Reilly (JHWS Fraggle) put on a wonderful puppet show with Brad Keefauver at Holmes in the Heartland: Sherlock Haunts! in July. If you missed it at the time, here’s your chance to watch the full recording at our meeting! Sadly, Mary will not be with us, but we hope to be able to get her on at some point in the future.

If you want to hear from the Hound of the Baskervilles, one of the geese from “The Blue Carbuncle” (recall that there were two!), the Lion’s Mane, or the Speckled Band, now’s your chance! Register at this link, and we’ll see you there!

View halloo! It’s time to register for our next meeting! We’ll be meeting on Sunday, September 27, at 2pm ET/1pm CT, and all Sherlockians are welcome!

We don’t have a program yet, but stay tuned! We’ll be figuring something out soon.

Please register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/HwpkG-X2Qs21LjkfUSxI-g

Not only do we have a meeting coming up next Sunday, we also have a little bit of programming! Bullpup Grimesby (aka Greg Sullivan) will show us the Sherlockian filk videos he’s made — and if you’ve seen any of them before at various Zooms, you know it’s going to be fun to see them all!

Please join us on August 23 at 2pm ET/1pm CT for our last chat of the summer! You can register at this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/56pK1OVTR66XJwdlIZvskw

It’s that time again! Please join us on August 23 at 2pm ET/1pm CT for our last chat of the summer! You can register at this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/56pK1OVTR66XJwdlIZvskw

BUT WAIT, there’s more! It’s also time for our Annual Treasure Hunt! And yes, I am posting this late, and I apologize! Since I am posting late, we’ll give you a little extra time: all answers are due by 11:59pm Eastern Time on September 5, the Saturday before Labor Day.

Download the Word file, fill out the answers, and submit it to our Treasure Master, Bullpup Hector (Rich Krisciunas), at kriscirt@gmail.com. Good luck!

It’s time to register for the JHWS’s July meeting! We’ll be meeting at 2pm ET/1pm CT on Sunday, July 19th (rather than the fourth Sunday, when some of us will be at the Holmes in the Heartland conference).

Please recall that we’re now on our summer programming: that is, we’ll just be chit-chatting. (And there will probably be plenty of talk about Holmes in the Heartland.) Be sure, though, to bring something for show & tell if you have anything!

You can register for the Zoom here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/ym3YM6BLT1-9hMbEwNd3fA

View halloo! It’s time to register for our next meeting! We’ll be meeting on Zoom on June 28th at 2pm Eastern/1pm Central.

This meeting starts our summer non-programming: that is, we will be meeting purely to chit-chat! All Sherlockians are welcome. Bring something for show & tell, though!

Please register here.

Have you heard about Fogtown? It’s a YouTube show and an upcoming video game that reimagine the world of Sherlock Holmes as a world of puppets.

Join us for our next meeting, May 31st, at 2pm Eastern, to watch a demo of the video game. Sean Parker (JHWS “Pedro”) will run us through the demo, and then we’ll have a Q&A session afterwards, during which you can ask Sean your questions about the project!

Register for the meeting here. Remember, you don’t have to be a member to attend a meeting! Come join us!

You may have heard by now the sad news that David Burke has passed away at the age of 91. The news was first broken yesterday by the Jeremy Brett Sherlock Holmes Podcast, as they had been in touch with the family.

Since then, I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere has posted both a written tribute and a podcast episode in memory of David, featuring Gus and Luke Holwerda of the JBSH podcast, and an official obituary has been issued by The Times (UK). The obituary is worth the read if you are a fan; the written IHOSE tribute is very moving; and the IHOSE episode is a lovely cap to the reading.

If you have not listened to the interview Gus and Luke conducted with David and his wife Anna Calder-Marshall in 2022, you can listen to it here. In this episode of the podcast, the brothers talk about their trip to England that included that interview. Lastly, the JBSH podcast hosted an event in the UK in 2024 called “BrettCon,” to celebrate the Granada series’ 40th anniversary. Stephen Fry and several actors from the series sent video messages to the event, including David and his family.

David Burke was one of the finest and most beloved Watsons ever to grace the screen. He was just shy of his 92nd birthday, and he is survived by his wife Anna Calder-Marshall and his son Tom Burke.

By all accounts, he was a gentleman and a wonderful human being. He could have stayed on to play Watson much longer, which would have made many of us very happy, but he chose to leave the show to be nearer to his family, especially since Tom was very young at the time.

His was not the first intelligent and competent Watson, but this version marked a turning point in mainstream depictions, from comedic sidekick to a hero in his own right.

RIP, dear sir. You will be missed. Thank you for everything.

View halloo! It’s time to register for our May meeting! We’ll be meeting on Zoom on May 31st, the last Sunday of the month, at 2 p.m. ET/1 p.m. CT.

We have no discussion topic yet, but join us anyway to find out what we’ll be doing!

You can register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/glkxUmi1T-i8ZH_NmQPRjA