Scion Societies

[Pat " A Study In Scarlett" O'Hara]

I was wondering what scion societies some of you might belong to? I lived in Chicago for many years and still maintain my membership with The Torists and The Criterion Bar Association.

[Dana]

I'm with you-- I only joined the one whose events I could attend. Here here for joining, though!

[Vicki "Victoria Misselthwaite" Stewart]

I'd like to join one...don't know of any in Columbus, OH...at least nothing with a website or email address...[yeah, yeah, I know...] ;)

[Scott Monty]

You're in luck, Vicki - Sherry Rose-Bond and Scott Bond - artist-in-residence for The Baker Street Journal (what's that? you don't subscribe? Click the link to learn more; it is a must for every Sherlockian.) - moved from the Philadelphia area to Columbus a few years ago and brought The Clients of Sherlock Holmes with them.

You can contact Sherry (and tell her I sent you) at [e-mail].

[Vicki "Victoria Misselthwaite" Stewart]

Thanks! Will do! :)

[scarletsherlock]

Great! Thanks for that info, Scott. I had seen a snail mail address for the Bonds online but haven't got around to mailing them yet.

[Stephanie Thomas]

Hello,

I'm a member of Dr. Watson's Neglected Patients (www.dwnp.com) a Scion Society based in Denver Colorado. The society I am actively involved with is The Bootmakers of Toronto, the Sherlock Holmes Society of Canada (www.bootmakers.ca). I also belong to the Sherlock Holmes Society of London.

[Stephanie Thomas]

You will also receive Peter Blau's newsletter if you belong to The Hounds of the Internet. That's another Scion Society I belong to.

[John C. Sherwood]

My first scion (ca. 1984) was The Arcadia Mixture of Ann Arbor, Michigan, although I haven't been involved there for many years.

Over the years, we accumulated a lot of connections through our mysteries in Michigan, and I have become very friendly with members of the Criterion Bar Association (Chicago), the Stormy Petrels of Maumee Bay (Toledo) and the Ribston Pippins (Royal Oak, Mich.). I also became involved in the Hounds of the Internet.

While not an official scion, I launched my own online group in the 1990s, named The Weird Telegraphers. It had chiefly a Michigan membership and is no longer active.

In 1999 when my work took me East to Pennsylvania and Delaware, I became acquainted with members of Watson's Tin Box of Ellicott City, Md., which eventually I served for a year as gasogene. It's a very active and scholarly group, with a particular dedication to literacy among young people, and has kept me busy in one way or another virtually every month for a long time.

In recent years, though, I've also been known to drop in on Mycroft's League and the Sons of the Copper Beeches, based out of Philadelphia, and Peter Blau's famous Red Circle of Washington. I've also recently joined the Clients of Adrian Mulliner, because of my corresponding admiration for the lifestyle of Mr. Bertram Wooster!

"There's a wonderful sympathy and freemasonry among" Sherlockians, and I've enjoyed all of these -- and many other -- contacts in the world of Holmes.

[Ann Margaret Lewis]

You're from Michigan? So am I. My first scion was The Greek Interpreters in East Lansing, but I haven't joined another one since then until the Hounds and now The Illustrious Clients in Indianapolis.
--Ann

[John C. Sherwood]

Some of my family has resided around East Lansing (and I have a brother in Indianapolis), but I'm a Battle Creek kid and tended to stick with events along the I-94 corridor. My only active involvement with a scion in Michigan was with The Arcadia Mixture in Ann Arbor back in the early 1980s, before launching our Holmes events in Union City in 1987. Fred Page was in charge of the Mixture back in those days, but I was pleased to run into another old Mixture pal in Ann Arbor at, of all things, yet another brother's wedding just last year.

The realm of Holmes indeed connects people from all walks and realms!

[John C. Sherwood]

My first scion (ca. 1984) was The Arcadia Mixture of Ann Arbor, Michigan, although I haven't been involved there for many years.

Over the years, we accumulated a lot of connections through our mysteries in Michigan, and I have become very friendly with members of the Criterion Bar Association (Chicago), the Stormy Petrels of Maumee Bay (Toledo) and the Ribston Pippins (Royal Oak, Mich.). I also became involved in the Hounds of the Internet.

While not an official scion, I launched my own online group in the 1990s, named The Weird Telegraphers. It had chiefly a Michigan membership and is no longer active.

In 1999 when my work took me East to Pennsylvania and Delaware, I became acquainted with members of Watson's Tin Box of Ellicott City, Md., which eventually I served for a year as gasogene. It's a very active and scholarly group, with a particular dedication to literacy among young people, and has kept me busy in one way or another virtually every month for a long time.

In recent years, though, I've also been known to drop in on Mycroft's League and the Sons of the Copper Beeches, based out of Philadelphia, and Peter Blau's famous Red Circle of Washington. I've also recently joined the Clients of Adrian Mulliner, because of my corresponding admiration for the lifestyle of Mr. Bertram Wooster!

"There's a wonderful sympathy and freemasonry among" Sherlockians, and I've enjoyed all of these -- and many other -- contacts in the world of Holmes.

[Julia Huggins]

Anyone remember The Non-Canonical Calabashes in Los Angeles? I was inches away from joining that society when I lived in LA in the early 80's, but moved from the area before it happened. I know it's inactive now but anyone have any history on it? I'd like to know what i missed.