The Fall 2017 Meeting
of the
Denizens of the Bar of Gold
will be held on
Saturday, October 28th at 6 PM  at the Cambridge Yacht Club.

Directions to the Cambridge Yacht Club

The Fall Meeting of the comrades from upper Swandam Lane will start at 6PM with a cash bar. Art Renkwitz will deliver greetings and direct the toasting ( Toasts) as the Denizens settle in for a delightful meal and unique festivities.

INDEX Click on any category below to view The Format for the Evening A Little History... The Man With The Twisted Lip Pillow The Featured Presentation The Story of the Evening: The Man With the Twisted Lip The Man With the Twisted Lip Radio Show The Dinner Menu

 

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This Fall 2017 Meeting of the Denizens will revisit our investiture story from the Canon, The Man With the Twisted Lip. Read about our first meeting on December 11th, 1993 at the Tidewater Inn in Easton, MD.

Below is a bit of history. There will be more at the Fall meeting:

Sherlock Holmes, literature's most popular character, is alive and well on Maryland's Eastern Shore. Sherlockians Joe and Chris Wilke and Mary Ann Bradley and Mike Whelan are organizing a program and dinner for a new Baker Street Irregulars' scion called

"The Denizens of the Bar of Gold"

at the Tidewater Inn on Saturday evening December 11^th, 1993. This scion (son of) will be one of over 940 literary societies loosely

associated with the Baker Street Irregulars, the parent organization founded by Christopher Morley in New York City in 1934.

The Bar of Gold gets its name from the notorious opium den in the Holmes short story, "The Man with the Twisted Lip." In Holmes' own words, he described it

"We (Holmes and Watson) should be rich men if we had 1000 pounds for every poor devil who has been put to death in that den. It is the vilest murder trap in the whole riverside...."

The Poem The Beggar

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Alice Zalik will be creating The Man With the Twisted Lip Pillow.

  Alice will be working on her pillow, but will not have it ready for our upcoming meeting.

The raffle will be held as usual. The winner's pillow will be delivered to them shortly thereafter.

The raffle tickets are $5 each and worth every penny to own this creative Sherlockian masterpiece. 

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The presentation of the evening will feature Gary Miller
 

Did you ever wonder who really wrote the Sherlock Holmes Stories?

Well wonder no more. All will be revealed with this presentation:

Author, Arthur

or

Arthur, Author

                  

Don't miss it. The game is afoot!
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The Quiz of the evening will test our knowledge of

from "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes"

Denizens Susan Wallace and Gary Miller will supply the quiz questions with *prizes to the winners.

The Quizzes will be available upon arrival, and can be worked on throughout the evening. 

*Prizes will be given to the winners in the Rookie and Pro categories.

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Sherlock Holmes on the Internet
 

The Man With the Twisted Lip Radio Show



Radio Production - June 5th, 1946
 

Click HERE to listen to the show

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The Dinner menu will be as follows:

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All-in-all it will be a memorable night that the Denizens are glad to be able to share.

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The Denizens' Spring  Meeting will be held on Saturday April 14th,  2018 .
 

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Art Renkwitz

Cambridge, MD 21613

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