I don’t know how many times I have started writing about this. The fascination people have with Sherlock Holms is something of a phenomenon. Just this year the Brits started a second series, showing through PBS, and the big screen will have shown s second flick with Robert Downing Jr. & Jude Law, portraying the unparalleled sleuth, Sherlock and his best friend Dr. Watson.
The Internet is an amazing tool for communication! I found all around the world, fan clubs, Bloggs, pipe clubs, roll playing clubs, and Mystery Dinner restaurants.
I found radio shows, a Sherlock mystery dinner train.
Why mostly Sherlock? Because Conan Doyle wrote 56 stories about the genial sleuth.
Just on Facebook I found 10 different pages, just for starters. Same thing on Google.
Conan Doyle smoked both pipes and cigars, which made Sherlock also smoke both pipes and cigars. Holmes smoked a small pipe, not the huge calabash portrayed by the Sherlock
in the 1940’s movie series, which we do carry at Benningtons. Therefore whenever the traditional Holmes is portrayed or logoed, it shows him with a pipe in his mouth as he thinks to solve a case.
Sherlock has been with us for over 120 years. A study in Scarlet, Mr. Doyle’s first story, was published in 1887. And although he tried to “kill” Sherlock in 1902, he was forced to bring him back to life years later.
The Sherlock cult spreads from the British Isles to the European continent, the Americans and the rest of the world.
As I perused the internet I found a Pub in Westminster (UK); A museum in London; a Pipe Club in Massachusetts; a website offering all things Sherlock in England, selling rare books, mugs, audio books, a newsletter, toys, pipes, statues and a map, containing a few of the places, including Baker Street, Covent Garden and Piccadilly Circus. It translates as a walk of at least 3 hours.
I also found a Pub in Melbourne Australia, a Sherlock society in England and every English speaking country, a page in Wikipedia, Apple has an App containg the entire collection of stories and finally a social network based in the US! A place for Sherlokians by Sherlokians… Their motto? The game’s afoot! Elementary my dear!
Take a shot at the tent joke I attached from YOUTUBE…lol no peeking at the end. It’s really funny…
And to top it off, Benningtons had the visit from the member of the Sherlock Holmes Pipe Club from Boston. - Check them out! They gave us a very nice plug!!Enjoy all the links and the adventures behind them… ‘til next week!
Christina
PS Check out the trailer for the new Sherlock movie coming this December 2011!! It will be as much fun as the first one!! Ciao…
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