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Our About the Trust page describes our organization, and we have a separate Brief History of the BSI that describes the beginnings of the BSI.
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Photos and Information about BSI Dinners since 1934
Audio Recordings of BSI members discussing BSI history
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You can see a more complete list of tags at the bottom of the BSI Trust home page, listed under the Topics section. That listing includes the number of pages on this site tagged with that label.
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BSI Publications
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Type of Original Media
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Visitors should see our Getting Started page for some tips about our website. We have separate pages to help you locate specific BSI Dinn...
Answers to the following FAQs appear below:
What exactly is the Baker Street Irregulars Trust?
Who may donate to the BSI Trust and Archive?
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Does this website show everything in the archive?
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The BSI Trust is the part of the BSI focused on preserving the BSI's history and making this material available for study. The BSI Archive is located in the Lilly Library at Indiana University. For more details, see About the BSI Trust and our BSI Archive page.
Anyone may donate to the BSI Trust and Archive. Please see our gifts of materials page for details on what the Trust collects. Everyone can help the Trust through monetary donations to our 501 (c)(3) organization.
Besides helping to preserve the history of the BSI, donations may be tax deductible. Please see our pages about monetary donations and gifts of materials for more details. Contributions to the BSI Trust may be publicized in The Baker Street Journal, the Trust newsletter, and this website.
No, this site only shows a sample from the BSI Archive. The Lilly Library's website shows additional material, and has an online finding aid that lists many of the items in the archive. See the BSI Archive page for more details.
Our Finding Information page describes how this site is organized. See also our Getting Started page for tips on using this website.
Visitors should see our Getting Started page for some tips about our website. Answers to the following FAQs appear below: What exactly ...
The BSI Archive has moved from the Houghton Library at Harvard to the Lilly Library at Indiana University. For details, see our post about moving the BSI Archives.
The Houghton is graciously maintaining our digitized material online until it can be integrated with the Lilly system.
You can view some items online from the Harvard website, including the following:
Morley, Christopher, 1890-1957. Letters to Edgar Wadsworth Smith, 1939-1955.
Container 148. 2 folders.
Smith, Edgar Wadsworth, 1894-1960. Letters to Christopher Morley, 1938-1955.
Container 211. 2 folders
BSI Business Files, Minutes, 1940-1960.
BSI Business Files, Memorandums, 1940-1961.
Container 307. 1 folder.
BSI Events, Annual Dinner.
Dinner items for at least 1934-1960 are online. See the BSI Dinner/Weekend Summary list for links.
Online Finding Aid for the Baker Street Irregulars Archive
This Lilly Library BSI Archive (LMC 2936) finding aid provides details about material held and cataloged at the library. Note that some material donated to the BSI Trust has not yet been cataloged.
For information on items sought for the Archive, see our Wish List of materials (PDF).
Research Fellowships for the BSI Archive
The BSI Trust and the Lilly Library are now offering two research fellowships, awarded annually with a stipend of up to $2,500, to support research using the BSI Archive at the Lilly Library. For details and deadlines, see our BSI Trust Research Fellowships page.
The BSI Archive has moved from the Houghton Library at Harvard to the Lilly Library at Indiana University. For details, see our post about ...
The BSI was founded on January 6, 1934 with its "first meeting," a cocktail reception at the Duane Hotel. This was followed by the "First Formal Meeting" of the BSI on June 5, 1934. However, its first Annual Dinner was held in December 1934. You can read more about this on our Brief History of the BSI page.
Group dinner pictures have been taken every year since 1949, and the Trust holds photos from every dinner at which a picture was taken. This page links to all the BSI Dinners, with details and photos for each dinner on separate pages.
To see only those years that have associated audio recordings, click to see BSI Dinner/Weekend plus Audio search results
BSI Dinner / Weekend List (by year)
1934 BSI Dinner (no photo taken)
1935 [no Dinner held]
1940 BSI Dinner
The BSI was founded on January 6, 1934 with its "first meeting," a cocktail reception at the Duane Hotel. This was followed by th...
BSI Dinner/Weekend, Finding
The BSI Oral History Project began in 2006 under the leadership of Donald J. Terras, BSI, who was, at the time, a Professor of Anthropology at Northeastern Illinois University. He ran the program until 2010, when Andrew Solberg, BSI took the reins. In 2013, they passed to Marsha Pollak, BSI, the current head of the program. Since 2006, we have interviewed approximately 180 BSI about their families, professional lives, early Sherlockian memories, memorable BSI moments and personalities, and other aspects which give texture to the history of the BSI.
In 2012, when the Board determined that it would like to make these interviews available to be heard over the Internet, we began asking interviewees to sign a release allowing us to do so. All of the interviews are being submitted to Lilly for access at the library, but only the ones for which we have signed approvals will be accessible online.
All the persons interviewed are listed below, but only some of the recordings are currently available online. We are adding more recordings over time, so check back to see what is available or use the sidebar sign-up options to get notified when new items are posted.
Please review the Terms of Use page prior to utilizing any of this content.
Interviews recently added online (sorted by when recording was posted online)
Interviewees (alphabetically)
All interviews are listed
If a name is not a link, that recording is not yet available online
List last updated 4/7/22
Anderson, Karen
Arai, Kiyoshi
Armstrong, Curtis
Baesch, John
Barnes, Bill
Beeson, William
Belanger, Terry
Bergem, Phillip
Bergquist, John
Berry, John Stevens
Betzner, Raymond
Blau, Peter E.
Blau, Peter E. (Lecture)
Bond, Scott
Bond, Sherry Rose & addendum
Boote, Henry
Boucher, Anthony
Bready, James H.
Calamai, Peter
Caplan, Richard M.
Cochran, William
Coghill, Bob
Cohen, Saul
Collins, Charles
Constable, John
Cooke, Catherine
Coppola, Joseph
Cox, J. Randolph
Crawford, Bryce
Crupe, Peter
Curtis, Donald
Dandrew, Thomas
Davies, David Stuart
de Groat, Raymond
De Waal, Ron
Decker, Jeff
deGozzaldi, Devereux
Deutsch, Irwin / Mrs. Ingrid Deutsch
Devitt, Allan and Susan Diamond
Diamond, Susan and Allan Devitt
Dickensheet, Shirley
Dobry, Denny
Dorn, William
Doyle, Pj
Doyle, Steven
Earle, Ralph
Eckrich, Joseph
Elliott, Doug
Folsom, Henry T.
Francis, Tom
Friedman, Theodore
Fromkin, Michelle and Susan Rice
Fromkin, Michelle (group discussion)
Fusco, Andrew G.
Geisser, Marcus
Goldfarb, Clifford
Green, Ruichard Lancelyn
Gregory, Al
Griffin, Daniel
Groves, Derham
Guerra, Stefano
Hall, Ralph
Hahn, Robert W.
Hammer, David
Herbert, Paul (plus notes)
Herzog, Evelyn
Higashiyama, Akane
Higurashi, Masamichi
Hirayama, Yuichi
Hobbs, Donald J.
Hoffman, Everett
Holmes on the Horizon (DVD: 1987 Sherlockian cruise)
Horrocks, Peter
Hyder, William
Izban, Donald
Johnson, Roger
Kamil, Irv
Karlson, Kate
Katz, Robert
Katz, Robert (group discussion)
Katz, Robert (History of the Dr. Watson Fund)
Kean, Michael
Keefauver, Brad
Kegley, Jerry
Kennedy, Bruce
Kittle, C. Frederick
Kitts, Francine and Richard Kitts
Kitts, Francine (group discussion)
Kitts, Richard and Francine Kitts
Kitts, Richard (group discussion)
Klinefelter, Walter
Klinger, Leslie
Koelle, John & Barbara
Latella, Brigitte
Levine, Arthur
Liebow, Ely
Liebow, Ely (on Joe Bell)
Lindfors, Bernth
Linsenmeyer, John
Linsenmeyer, John (re: The Woman 1975, Princess Nina Mdivani, wife of Denis Conan Doyle)
Lopez, Michele
MacGregor, Marilyn
Malec, Andrew
Mangler, Robert
Mangler, Robert (on Vincent Starrett)
Margolin, Jerry
Marriott, Guy
Martin, Paul
McCafferty, Elaine
McCafferty, Jonathan
McCormack, George
McCullam, William
McDonough, Donald A. (Written)
McKuras, Julie
McNamara, Rosane
McPherson, Mark
Meer, Michael
Merritt, Russell
Meyer, Charles
Miller, Richard
Miranker, Glen
Montag, Tony
Montag, Tony (Addendum)
Monty, W. Scott, II
Moran, Joe
Morrow, Daniel
Moss, Daniel
Moss, Robert (per his son Dan Moss)
Nathan, Hartley R.
Niver, Harold
Niver, Theodora
Novorsky, Donald
Nuhn, Dayna
Parker, Bruce
Peck, Andrew
Pforr, John
Pilot, Roy
Polvere, Daniel M
Posnansky, Dan
Prager, Jan
Rabe, W.T.
Randall, Warren
Raymond, Trevor
Redmond, Christopher
Redmond, Don (per his son Chris Redmond)
Rice, Susan and Michelle Fromkin
Rice, Susan (group discussion)
Robinson, Bob
Rosenblatt, Albert M.
Rosenblatt, Julia Carlson
Rothman, Steven
Rusch, Barbara
Rutter, Richard
Salvatori, Gianluca
Saunders, James B.
Schpak, Maggie
Schulz, Theodore
Shaw, Al
Shaw, John Bennett and Thomas L. Stix, Jr.
Shaw, Patrick (son of John Bennett Shaw)
Shea, Glenn
Sherman, Philip
Silverstein, Albert
Skene-Melvin, David
Smith, Marthe (Edgar Smith's Granddaughter)
Solito, Enrico
Sonnenschmidt, Fritz
Stajic, Marina
Stek, Robert J.
Stix, Dorothy
Stix, Stephen L.
Stix, Thomas L., Jr.
Stix, Thomas L., Jr. and John Bennett Shaw
Sturm, George
Sveum, Richard
Swanson, Martin
Terras, Donald
Thomalen, Robert
Thomas, Daniel
Ueda, Hirotaka
Upton, Jean
Utechin, Nick
Utecht, Thomas
Vande Water, Bill
Veiga-Hayzen, Maria
Wachs, Jerry
Walker, Lynn
Warshauer, Richard
Wein, Richard
Weiss, David
Whelan, Mike (Partial)
White, Kathryn
White, Ronald S.
Wilmer, Douglas
Wolder, Burt
Wolff, Ira
Wood, Joan
Wrigglesworth, Doug
Yates, Donald
The BSI Oral History Project began in 2006 under the leadership of Donald J. Terras, BSI, who was, at the time, a Professor of Anthropology ...
BSI Members, Finding, Oral History
BSI History Resources
Finding Aid for the BSI Archive (The Lilly Library at Indiana University)
eBSJ: The e-Baker Street Journal PDF Archive 1946-2011
The BSI History Series
List of Invested BSI, Two-Shilling Award Recipients, and The Woman (PDF)
Other Sources of BSI News
Scuttlebutt from the Spermaceti Press
I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere Blog/Podcast
Other Major Sherlockian and Doylean Special Collections
University of Minnesota Library Sherlock Holmes Collections, Minneapolis
The Arthur Conan Doyle Collection, Toronto Public Library
Friends of the Arthur Conan Doyle Collection, Toronto
The Kittle Collection of Doyleana, Newberry Library, Chicago
The Arthur Conan Doyle Collection, Richard Lancelyn Green Bequest, Portsmouth Museum, Portsmouth, UK
The Sherlock Holmes Collection, Marylebone Library, Westminster UK
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Manuscripts Checklist and News (The Best of Sherlock Holmes)
Other BSI History Resources Finding Aid for the BSI Archive (The Lilly Library at Indiana University) eBSJ: The e-Baker Street Jour...
The Baker Street Irregulars is a literary society dedicated to the study of Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Watson, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and the Victorian world. It is the oldest existing Sherlockian society in the world. For more details, see BSI History: An Introduction.
The Baker Street Irregulars Trust is part of the BSI and is the repository of the Irregulars' collective memory. Its purpose is to collect, preserve, and provide access to historical documents, correspondence, papers, photos, recordings, and memorabilia relating to the BSI and its members and friends. The Lilly Library at Indiana University holds the BSI Archive, which is open for public use.
Our Board of Trustees manages the Trust, and our website volunteers develop and run our website. Many other volunteers assist the Trust in collecting material, pre-cataloging it, and leading other Trust activities, such as the Oral History Project, the Trust Newsletter, and educational programs. If you would like to volunteer to help the Trust, please email the Trust Chair.
Your support helps us to expand our holdings and make this site more useful. Please see our gifts of materials page for details on what the Trust collects. Everyone can help the Trust through monetary donations to our 501 (c)(3) organization, which may be tax deductible.
For more information about the Trust and this website, see our Getting Started page and our Frequently Asked Questions page.
The BSI first began meeting in the 1930s. For more information, see a Brief History of the BSI. The BSI Trust came into being in 2003, at the impetus of Michael Whelan, then the head of The Baker Street Irregulars. Mr. Whelan took over curatorship of a large body of papers belonging to previous heads of the BSI. He determined to make these papers the beginning of the BSI Archive and to make them accessible to scholars. The BSI Archive was formally opened at the Houghton Library at Harvard University in November 2005. It moved to the Lilly Library at Indiana University in September 2018.
Our motto, For the Sake of the Trust, comes from the Sherlock Holmes story "The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual."
The Baker Street Irregulars is a literary society dedicated to the study of Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Watson, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and the Vic...
This glossary lists BSI honours in the same order as the terms appear on BSI Dinner pages.
BSI Honours List: Our list of people recognized for achievements and service uses the British spelling of "honours."
The Baker Street Irregulars: In The Sign of Four, Holmes utilized a group of rag-tag young street urchins to keep lookout on certain people or places. Holmes called them "The Baker Street Irregulars." Christopher Morley used this name in 1934 for his group of Sherlockian enthusiasts.
BSI Honours
Investitures: In 1944, Edgar Smith sent a letter to all BSI stating that, henceforth, BSI membership shall be identified by the issuance of a titular Investiture taken from the sixty Sherlock Holmes stories. Since then, when a person is made a member ("invested" or, as Edgar Smith said, "investitured"), he or she receives an Investiture title.
Irregular Shilling: In 1948, Cy Keller, a banker and magician from Baltimore, suggested that Investitures be accompanied by a shilling. Since then, a new BSI member's certificate of Investiture has included a real shilling attached to it. (In The Sign of Four, Holmes asked a young boy if there was anything he would like. "I'd like a shillin'," said he. "Nothing you would like better?" [said Holmes]. "I'd like two shillin' better.")
Two-Shilling Award: In 1962, Julian Wolff bestowed an "extraordinary Irregular award," the Two-Shilling Award, on Rex Stout for "extraordinary devotion to the cause beyond the call of duty." (See above for the origin of Irregular Shilling.) In the ensuing years, the head of the BSI has periodically recognized other members' efforts by bestowing on them this Award.
The Woman: In 1942, Edith Meiser was honored by the BSI by being invited to attend the cocktail hour preceding the Annual Dinner. In the following years, other women were so honored. The custom was formalized by Julian Wolff in 1961, and the honor was entitled The Woman in recognition of Irene Adler from "A Scandal in Bohemia." ("To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman.") Beginning in 1967, The Woman has proceeded from the cocktail hour to a small dinner party, attended by previous honorees.
"Stand with me here upon the terrace . . .": In the January 1946 issue of the BSJ, the names of those BSI who recently died were listed, followed by a quote from "His Last Bow": " . . . Stand with me here upon the terrace, for it may be the last quiet talk that we shall ever have." At the 1953 Dinner, the BSI initiated a "Stand with Me upon the Terrace" ritual, in which those who died (usually in the previous year) are remembered.
Morley-Montgomery Award: In 1958, this prize was established through the generosity of legendary bookdealer Lew D. Feldman, to be given each year to the author of the best article in The Baker Street Journal during the previous year. It was suspended in 1980 and was reinstated in 1995.
BSI Distinguished Speaker Lecture: In 1998, the BSI added a Distinguished Speaker Lecture as part of the Weekend festivities. Each speaker's work has somehow affected the Sherlockian world, and the talk is usually published later in the BSJ.
Eddy Award: In 2011, Michael Whelan initiated the Eddy Award to honor those who edited BSI publications.
See also our Brief History of the BSI for more about the organization.
This glossary lists BSI honours in the same order as the terms appear on BSI Dinner pages . BSI Honours List : Our list of people recogniz...
A Brief History of the Baker Street Irregulars
In 1932, there were no Sherlockian societies. However, it is likely that the first Sherlockian society was founded by Christopher Morley in 1902, at age twelve with three friends on the streets of Bolton Hill in Baltimore. They called themselves "The Sign of the Four." Morley then went on to study at Haverford College. (His father had taught mathematics at Haverford and moved to Baltimore to head up the Math Department at Johns Hopkins University.) Christopher wanted to be a writer. In 1917, he wrote a delightful book about a traveling bookseller, Parnassus on Wheels, which turned out to be a bestseller. He wrote many more excellent and well received books. During the 1920s, Morley helped found the Saturday Review of Literature (SRL). He never lost his enjoyment of Sherlock Holmes. In 1926, he began to plant Sherlockian references in his column in the SRL. In 1930, Doubleday commissioned Morley to write the introduction to the first Complete Sherlock Holmes.
Morley also liked to share his meals with friends. To do so, he formed many "clubs" that met periodically for meals. One of his favorites was the "Three Hours for Lunch Club," which met at speakeasies in Manhattan starting around 1920. Out of that, in 1931, grew the Grillparzer Sittenpolizei Verein (Grillparzer Morals Police Association) or the Grillparzer Club, which Morley named after a random book he happened to buy. Attendees to the club would sign their names in the book and added comments. Club "members" (attendees who signed the book) included W. S. Hall, Rex Stout, Edward G. Robinson, Elmer Davis, A. A. Milne, Buckminster Fuller, Robert Montgomery, Nelson Doubleday, Ginger Rogers, Morley's brothers Frank and Felix, Don Marquis, Ogden Nash, H. G. Wells, A. S. W. Rosenbach, T. S. Eliot, Gene Tunney, Judith Anderson, and many more men and women. A number of its members shared Morley's interest in Sherlock Holmes, and, out of these, grew another club.
1930 brought a heightened interest in Sherlock Holmes, partly because of the death of Arthur Conan Doyle. S. C. Roberts' book Dr. Watson was published in 1931, T. S. Blakeney's Sherlock Holmes, Fact or Fiction in 1932, H. W. Bell's Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson and Vincent Starrett's The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes followed in 1933.
In 1933, the SRL published several articles on Sherlock Holmes, including Morley's assertion that Holmes's birthday was January 6 and reviews of some of the aforementioned books. Meanwhile the practice of asking challenging questions began to arise in Morley's clubs (with the loser having to buy a round of drinks). Some of these questions related to the Canon, and people started re-reading the stories a bit more closely.
In late 1933, Morley noticed that the SRL would be publishing an issue on January 6, 1934, his date for Sherlock Holmes's birthday. He called for a cocktail party at the Hotel Duane to celebrate the event. There were some birthday toasts at the party, and while Morley may have mentioned the Baker Street Irregulars, no one took any notice of it. However, three weeks later, Morley reported in the SRL:
W. S. H. [i.e., Bill Hall], secretary of the Baker Street Irregulars, has allowed us to look over the minutes of the first meeting of the club. Among other business it appears that the matter of an official toast was discussed. It was agreed that the first health must always be drunk to "The Woman."
Thus, the BSI was born.
Following that, mention of the BSI occurred regularly in Morley's articles in the SRL. Then, Morley printed Elmer Davis's Constitution of the BSI. The SRL began receiving letters from people who added "Baker Street Irregular" to their names. Morley became concerned that his whimsical little idea for having meals with his friends was getting out of his control.
His brother Frank had developed the Sherlock Holmes Crossword Puzzle and sent it to Morley. Morley published it in the SRL, using it as a requirement for membership in the BSI. He asked people to mail him their completed puzzles. Men and women from all over the country did so.
Someone in the U.K. must have been reading the SRL. Morley received a letter stating that the English Sherlock Holmes Society was now formed, sends its greetings to the Baker Street Irregulars, and would hold its first dinner on June 7, 1934. Morley felt that the British had recognized the BSI's seniority, and he did not want to lose the "first formed" status. He was spurred to hold a BSI dinner before the London group met. Hence, he wrote a letter to all of the people who successfully (or almost successfully) completed the puzzle that the BSI would hold its first formal dinner on June 5th. He added a phrase that would haunt the BSI for nearly sixty years. "This first meeting will be stag."
Some of Morley's clubs were stag, while others were not. Morley seemed to like the character of both co-ed and all male groups. (The Three Hours for Lunch Club was stag, and the Grillparzer Club was not.) A lot depended on which friends he wanted to dine with. For example, sometimes, they happened to be other male authors, sometimes they were authors of both sexes. And there is certainly no evidence that Morley was a misogynist. At any rate, once the BSI took flight, it did not change its policy for decades.
The BSI held its "first annual" dinner on December 7, 1934. The attendees included Morley, W. S. Hall, William Gillette, Elmer Davis, Earle Walbridge, Frederick Dorr Steele, H. W. Bell, Vincent Starrett, Gene Tunney, and others, including Alexander Woollcott, who had been invited by Starrett and proceeded to alienate the others.
As Morley always considered the BSI to be an informal club that met at his whim, it did not meet again until January 6, 1936. In the meantime, Scion Societies of the BSI formed, such as the Speckled Band of Boston, the Six Napoleons of Baltimore, and others.
But the BSI, as a formal organization, seemed to be fading in Morley's interest. He would continue to have lunches with his close Irregular friends, but the BSI would not meet again until 1940. In 1938, Edgar W. Smith, a Vice President at General Motors, began writing to Morley and Starrett (befriending Starrett). Smith offered to take over many of the chores of planning the dinner from Morley, and Morley let him. From that time on, the BSI met every year thereafter.
Smith formalized the BSI. He did all the work, and the BSI escaped being Morley's whimsical plaything. Morley may have been the titular head, but Smith became the engine that drove it. After Morley's death, Smith ran it. He was followed by Julian Wolff, Tom Stix, Mike Whelan, and now Michael Kean.
In 1991, Stix made an announcement that would change the BSI forever. At the BSI's annual Cocktail Reception on the Saturday of the BSI Weekend, he announced that he had some investitures to make. The investitures included six women, and the BSI has been co-ed ever since.
The BSI is part literary society, part social group, and part source of whimsical entertainment. One does not join the BSI. One is invited to join (and, then, usually after several years of attending the dinner as an invitee). Membership is generally given after significant accomplishment, and, thus, BSI members are generally accomplished adults, either in the Sherlockian community or in their professions (but having a deep love of, and interest in, Sherlock Holmes).
The BSI has approximately 300 members from around the world. About half attend the annual BSI Dinner in New York City every January, which draws people from all over the U.S., as well as the U.K., Canada, France, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Australia, Japan, and other countries. The weekend surrounding the BSI Dinner is filled with speakers, other dinners, cocktail parties, and other Sherlockian events, many of which are open to the general Sherlockian community, not just BSI members.
See also our Explanation of BSI Honours and Terms for additional background about the BSI.
For a List of Invested BSI, Two Shilling Award Recipients, and The Woman, see our Links page.
The BSI History Series includes a number of books with information about the BSI and BSI scion societies on which this summary has been based. It is highly recommended. See the Baker Street Journal website for details.
A Brief History of the Baker Street Irregulars In 1932, there were no Sherlockian societies. However, it is likely that the first Sherlock...
Your donations will help to expand and improve the BSI Archives. The trustees seek both monetary contributions and gifts of materials from all sources.
Donations to the Baker Street Irregulars Trust are tax deductible.*
Among the activities that monetary contributions make possible are cataloging and digitization of Trust holdings at the Houghton Library, and purchasing materials for the BSI Archive that could not be obtained by donation. No Trust staff or Board members are paid for their work for the Trust.
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* The Trust, as a part of the BSI, is an educational and literary organization described in Section 501 (c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, contributions to which are deductible under Section 170 of such Code for federal and most state income tax purposes. Donors should consult their own tax advisors with respect to the applicable limitations on such deductions.
Your donations will help to expand and improve the BSI Archives. The trustees seek both monetary contributions and gifts of materials from...
The trustees seek both materials and monetary contributions from all sources.
Private papers relating to the history of the BSI and the Irregulars who make up its history are of special interest to the trustees. We also have a Wish List of materials (PDF) for the Archives.
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The current Board of Trustees are listed below. Thomas Horrocks is the Chair of The Baker Street Irregulars Trust, and Les Klinger is Secretary-Treasurer. Many other volunteers help with Trust activities, including the newsletter and this website.
Thomas A. Horrocks is an independent scholar. He holds a Ph.D. in history from the University of Pennsylvania, and spent 30 years working as a library administrator, including positions as Director of the Center for the History of Medicine at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Associate Librarian for Collections at Houghton Library, Harvard University; and Director of the John Hay Library at Brown University. In addition to his library management career, Dr. Horrocks has taught at Harvard University Extension School and has published numerous articles and books on American political history, with emphasis on Abraham Lincoln and his time. He has authored, edited, and co-edited eight books, including four on Lincoln, Harvard's Lincoln (2010), The Living Lincoln, co-edited with Harold Holzer and Frank J. Williams (2011); Lincoln's Campaign Biographies (2014), and most recently, The Annotated Lincoln, co-edited with Harold Holzer and published by Harvard University Press in 2016. He was invested into the BSI in 2013 as "Colonel Sabastian Moran." E-mail <TrustChair@bakerstreetirregulars.com>.
Ray Betzner ("The Agony Column," 1987) curates the Studies in Starrett blog. A lifelong Sherlockian, he has contributed to numerous BSI publications, edited a volume in the Irregulars' manuscript series, and has spoken at both in person and Zoom conferences. In 2008, he edited the 75th anniversary edition of Vincent Starrett's seminal book, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes. He retired to Williamsburg, Virginia in 2021 with one wife, one cat, about 500 Sherlockian/Starrettian volumes and several very nice bottles of peaty Scotch whisky.
Mary Ann Bradley ("The Woman," 1993; "Mary Morstan," 2012; Two-Shilling Award, 2015) married into the world of Sherlock Holmes in 1977; her husband Michael F. Whelan served as the BSI's "Wiggins" from 1997-2020. With a degree in English literature, she found this transition easy. Mary Ann enjoyed a long career with General Electric and two of the then–Big Eight accounting firms in their management consulting groups, specializing in information technology, systems design, and strategic planning. She serves on the board of the Indiana Historical Society and was board president for the Friends of the Lilly Library at Indiana University, Bloomington.
Peter E. Blau was introduced to the world of Sherlockians as a teenager. His father introduced him to Ben Abramson, who told Peter, "I publish a magazine you'll enjoy reading." It was The Baker Street Journal. There was (and is) no better introduction to that strange and interesting world. He went on to become a member of the Priory Scholars of Fordham, and The Baker Street Irregulars ("Black Peter," 1959), and the Adventuresses of Sherlock Holmes ("Ship's", 1991). He is a collector who agrees with the late John Bennett Shaw (who liked to explain that he collected with the selectivity of a vacuum cleaner), editor and publisher of the monthly newsletter Scuttlebutt from the Spermaceti Press, and the secretary of the BSI.
Bob Coghill ("John Hopley Neligan," 1983) has been a member of the Trust since its inception - first as an archivist and then as a member of the board. Bob's involvement has been primarily in sorting out donated materials and selecting and preparing materials for the archives. Bob is a long-time Bootmaker of Toronto and a member of the Stormy Petrels of British Columbia. He was awarded the Two-Shilling Award in 2010.
Denny Dobry ("A Large Airy Sitting-Room," 2018) is a retired professional engineer with a background in civil and environmental Engineering. Stimulated by Watson Tin Box's Co-Founder Paul Churchill's creativity and friendship, Denny designed and constructed his authentic and detailed re-creation of the 221B Baker Street sitting room at his home in Reading, Pennsylvania. He has served since 1998 as the Gasogene of the White Rose Irregulars of York, PA and also previously served as Headlight of the Beacon Society. He resides with his wife of 53 years, Joann, in Reading, PA.
Bob Katz was born in New York City, becoming devoted to Sherlock Holmes while in his early teens. His BA is from Haverford College (alma mater of all three Morley brothers) and his MD from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. While training in Pathology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, he became active in scion societies. He then moved to Baltimore, joining the Johns Hopkins medical faculty and eventually becoming Gasogene of The Six Napoleons. He entered private practice in Morristown, NJ in 1987 and recently retired after 35 years in Pathology. He received the BSI Investiture of "Dr. Ainstree" in 1983, the Two-Shilling Award in 1995, the ASH investiture of "Dr. Jackson," founded The Epilogues of Sherlock Holmes, and is also Headmastiff of The Sons of the Copper Beeches. Bob has been a speaker at a wide variety of Sherlockian events and has been published in The Baker Street Journal, Baker Street Miscellanea, The Serpentine Muse, and The Watsonian. Most recently, he co-edited, with Andrew Solberg, two volumes in the BSI Manuscript Series: The Wrong Passage and Irregular Stain.
Michael H. Kean was reintroduced to Sherlock Holmes while in graduate school, when his girlfriend, (Connie, now his wife of many years), gave him a copy of the complete Canon as a birthday gift. As his career took him westward, from Philadelphia, to Chicago, to California's Monterey Peninsula, he became a member of the Sons of the Copper Beeches, the Hounds of the Baskerville (sic), and the Diogenes Club of Carmel-by-the-Sea. He was invested in the Baker Street Irregulars in 1979 as General Charles Gordon. A retired publishing executive, he served as Co-Publisher of the BSI Press and received the Two-Shilling Award in 2013. He was named the BSI's "Cartwright" in 2016, and in 2020 he became the sixth person to lead the Baker Street Irregulars, succeeding Mike Whelan as "Wiggins."
Les Klinger's consuming passion since 1994 has been the study of the lives of Mr. Sherlock Holmes and John H. Watson, M.D.. He has published numerous articles on Sherlockiana and a number of books, among them The Life and Times of Mr. Sherlock Holmes, John H. Watson, M.D., Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and Other Notable Personages. He also co-authored the revised edition of The Date Being—A Compendium of Sherlockian Chronologies and most recently Sherlock Holmes, Conan Doyle & The Bookman. In 1998 Gasogene Books began publishing Klinger's Sherlock Holmes Reference Library, a ten-volume set, the first of which was The Adventures of SH. In 2004 and 2005, W. W. Norton published Klinger's three-volume work The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes. Klinger has twice received a "Special Sherlock Award" from Sherlock Holmes Detective Magazine for the best Sherlockian work of 1998 and 2002 and won the Edgar for best Critical/Biographical work for the first two volumes of the Norton set.
Les is a member of The Baker Street Irregulars ("The Abbey Grange," 1999) and holds the Two-Shilling Award. He served as Series Editor of the BSI Manuscript Series and is presently the Series Editor for the BSI History Series. In his remaining hours, Les is married to Sharon Flaum Klinger, has five children and four grandchildren, and practices tax, estate-planning, and business law full-time.
Richard M. Olken ("Bob Carruthers," 2006) has loved Sherlock Holmes for as long as he has loved bicycles (and bicycles were his father's family business). A graduate of Harvard University and Boston University School of Law, Richard became the Executive Director and Congressional lobbyist for the BikesBelong Coalition. He was also the Dean of the School of Bartending at Harvard University. Now retired, he has served as Poker for the Speckled Band of Boston since 1995 and is a member of many other Sherlockian societies worldwide.
Marsha Pollak has been an avid mystery reader since her childhood when she devoured the complete sets of Judy Bolton and Nancy Drew adventures. As a librarian, her career took her to Buffalo N.Y. where she was present for the founding of her first Scion, An Irish Secret Society at Buffalo, and became a member of The Adventuresses of Sherlock Holmes (Mrs. Neville St. Clair). Holmes has stayed in her life as she moved and made more friends in societies in Florida, Texas and, for the last 27 years, California. She became a member of The Baker Street Irregulars in 1996 ("A Small But Select Library") and now leads the Oral History Project. She is also the Chairman of The Sub-Librarians Scion of the Baker Street Irregulars in the American Library Association, the oldest profession-oriented group interested in Sherlock Holmes.
Dan Posnansky has been a student of The Canon since he could read and he became a "connoisseur" of fine books not long after that. He is remarkably generous with his time and knowledge of The Canon, books and U.S. publishing history, with collectors and libraries.
Dan is a longtime member of The Speckled Band of Boston, where he has served as The Keeper of the Band. Dan is also a most active member of The Baker Street Irregulars ("Colonel Hayter," 1977) and a founder of The Friends of Irene Adler. When not refining his knowledge about books and Sherlock, Dan rusticates in the woods of the great Northeast.
Constantine Rossakis has been a devout Sherlockian since the sixth grade, when he wrote a report on "The Greek Interpreter." His passion for matters bibliophilic as well as Sherlock Holmes continued to evolve since then, and he began to build his Sherlockian library almost twenty years ago, emphasizing first editions, first appearances, and manuscript material. He is the author of numerous medical and Sherlockian articles, lectured at the inaugural meeting of Mycroft's League in Philadelphia, and is a member of The Grolier Club. Costa received his investiture into The Baker Street Irregulars in 2004 as "St. Bartholomew's Hospital," and was the recipient of The Morley-Montgomery Memorial Award for The Baker Street Journal outstanding article in 2004. He will be editor of The BSI Manuscript Series for 2008. Costa remains in private practice as an interventional and consultative Cardiologist in Bergen County, New Jersey, to offset the cost of his expanding family and collection.
Steven Rothman discovered that at heart he was a Sherlockian when he read with great amusement Baring-Gould's Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street. Thus vaccinated by canonical scholarship at the tender age of 12, he was destined to become an Irregular. He soon discovered that his other love in literature, Christopher Morley, was entwined with the BSI. In 1990 he edited The Standard Doyle Company: Christopher Morley on Sherlock Holmes (Fordham University Press). Rothman's long association with the BSI ("The Valley of Fear," 1986) includes editorship of The Baker Street Journal since 2000.
Tamar Zeffren ("The London Library," 2017) is an archivist in the New York area. In addition to serving as Content Manager for the BSI Trust website, she is a Baker Street Babe and sits on the faculty of the Priory Scholars. She received a BA in English literature and medieval history from Barnard and a MA in archival management from NYU, and is certified as a Digital Archives Specialist by the Society of American Archivists.
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BSI Trust Volunteers
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Mike Berdan, for serving as past editor of the Trust Newsletter
John Bergquist, for proofreading previous issues of the Trust Newsletter
Mary Ann Bradley, for preparing correspondence and announcements, tracking donations, and organizing historical items pertaining to The Woman
Joe Coppola, for recording the BSI Dinners and assisting in digitizing historical recordings
Peter Crupe, for assisting with data aggregation
Denny Dobry, for coordinating the sales of Sherlockian titles to raise funds for the Trust
Erika Dowell, for advising on the BSI Archive at the Lilly and contributing to the Trust newsletter
Jenn Eaker, for editing and enhancing our audio recordings
Tom Horrocks, for coordinating the auction of Sherlockian items to raise funds for the Trust
Terry and Linda Hunt, for pre-cataloging some BSI Trust material
Kate Karlson, for proofreading previous issues of the Trust Newsletter
Julie McKuras, for serving as past editor of the Trust Newsletter and working on many of the Keys to BSI Dinner photos
Glen Miranker, for developing the Trust's core graphic design and original website
Scott Monty (I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere), for consulting and advice on the new Trust website design
Chris Music, for posting and managing this website's content
Michael Pollak and Laurie Manifold, for staffing the BSI Trust Book Sales table at the Vendors Room
Michael Pollak, for serving as past Editor of the Trust newsletter
Paul Singleton, for collecting copies of BSI Dinner presentations and toasts
Andy Solberg, for his numerous contributions, including scanning BSI Dinner photos and editing many of the website posts
Randall Stock (The Best of Sherlock Holmes), for designing, developing, and administering the website
Ben Vizoskie, for taking photographs of award recipients and speakers at the BSI Annual Dinner and BSI other events
Sue Vizoskie, for working on Keys to BSI Dinner photos
Burt Wolder, for assisting with the audio recordings
Tamar Zeffren, for researching and writing many of the website posts
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Tuesday, February 26, 2019- Family Book Club, 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm in the BMS School Library.
Monday, March 4, 2019- BMS PTO Meeting, 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm in the BMS School Library.
Thursday, March 14, 2019- Principal Luncheon, 11:30 am - 12:30 pm in the BMS Presentation Room.
Mrs. Bulk and I would like to welcome everyone back from winter break. We hope everyone had a restful and relaxing vacation. During the months of February/March, we have a few different opportunities for families to connect with BMS. We encourage parents to take part in our Family Book Club, attend our PTO meeting, have lunch with the Principal, or participate in our Parent Deeper Learning visit scheduled for later on this month. At BMS we value our home to school partnerships.
This week we would like to shine our BMS Spotlight on Mrs. Van Leer and Ms. Mento for their leadership in this year's variety show. The week before break, we had nearly 14 acts perform in front of friends and family, as well as the entire student body. The students did an amazing job showcasing their talents. Great work students, Mrs. Van Leer, and Ms. Mento! Well done!
This week we would also like to shine our BMS Spotlight on Ms. Hamel, Mrs. Polando, and Ms. Scanlon and their 8th Grade Students. During the month of January, with Mrs. Hamel's assistance, students from Ms. Scanlon's 8th grade Health classes collaborated with students from Mrs. Polando's 8th grade Entrepreneurship classes to produce videos for submission into the East Bay Regional Coalition's Mental Health Awareness Video Contest. Five videos were selected for submission and the video Titled The 5 Health Habits was selected as the winner. Students involved in the winning video were: Mia LeRoux, Kseniia Skosyrskaia, Max Bleakney, Nolan Gaus, Nathan Rego, & Shane Pilson.
The school will receive a $500.00 prize which will be used to purchase instructional resources for the MS Health and Entrepreneurship classes.
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In addition, I encourage you to visit Screenagers homepage https://www.screenagersmovie.com/ for additional information and helpful parent guides. Thank you HMS/BMS PTO for bringing this opportunity to BMS.
This week we would like to shine our BMS Spotlight on our Boy's Basketball Team for making it to the finals! This past Friday, the Boy's Basketball Team, Coached by Coach St. Vincent and Coach Raffa, played against Park View from Cranston. Our team played hard and with heart and fell short at the final minutes. Throughout the season, you made our school proud. Great season team!
This week, we would also like to shine our BMS Spotlight on Mrs. Oswald, Mrs. Polando, Mrs. Scanlon, and Mr. Naff for chaperoning the BMS Fan Bus. Thank you for your time and support to our BMS Students. Because of you, we were able to provide our students with a fan bus to support the team.
I would like to invite you to this month's Principal Coffee Hour on Wednesday, February 13, 2019 from 7:30 am to 8:30 am in our school's presentation room. Principal's Coffee Hour provides families an opportunity to meet with me to discuss a number of school related topics. The first half hour I will have a topic that I will prepare to discuss, and the second half hour will be an open agenda item. I do ask that topics discussed need to be general and not about specific incidents.


I have always been concerned on some level with the ergonomics of playing a guitar. Initially this meant fingerboard width and neck profile. My customers seem to appreciate the notion that the fingerboard and neck profile of their guitar can be customized to their preference. However as I and my customers began to get a bit older the issue became more and more of concern and began to affect many other design elements of the guitar.
A good deal of my thinking on this subject was prompted by one of my customers (thanks Mark!) who had, to put it bluntly, a very bum left shoulder (at least two surgeries and counting). When he could no longer comfortably play the guitars I had made for him earlier in my career, we began to think of other ways to accommodate his physical limitations.
First we decided to make a guitar with a 12 fret neck. I have done this for years but had done so because of the tonal effects and had not thought about how it would affect his playing position. Now we did.
Similarly I had made guitars with the shorter Gibson scale (24.75) for years but had not considered the ergonomic effects ( shorter reaches and reduced string tension). Now we did. The result was a concert size guitar which Mark could easily play - because his left arm did not have to reach out from his side in order to play.
The next step (when Mark's right shoulder began to cause problems) was to use a smaller (and thinner) 00 size body and to make it thinner on the bass side of the body. This wedge shaped guitar is an innovation first made by Linda Manzer. In this case the effect was to increase Mark's "comfortable" playing time from perhaps 15 minutes every few days to hours each day.
Next on my agenda is to build a guitar with a beveled edge where the player's right arm rests on the guitar. this too is not an original idea - I first saw it on Grit Laskin's work, then in the work of Kevin Ryan, and most recently on guitars built by Brian Applegate. Thanks to all of these fine builders. A link to my page about the Bevel Edge is below.
I have no doubt that there are other modifications which can (and will) be made to make guitars as playable as they are beautiful sounding. I occasionally refer to this process as "orthopedic guitar building" but really it is simply an extension of what builders have always done - to build a guitar for a customer that fulfills all of the dreams and needs of the customer.


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Pomp & Circumstance
It seems to be a pre-requisite these past few seasons that it rains cats and dogs for our trip to a ramshackle Fratton Park. And it looked particularly grim as we set of for the South coast Sunday morning. To be honest, it occurred to me that I must be stark raving bonkers to be heading off to spend ninety minutes being soaked to the skin on the uncovered terrace behind the goal, instead of stopping at home to enjoy live coverage of the exciting denouement to the relegation dogfight. Although there's guaranteed amusement at the last away game of the season with its fancy dress tradition of recent years.
If the Arsenal struggled to motivate themselves sufficiently for last week's big battle for London bragging rights, it was hard to imagine our players being bang up for the meaningless matter of playing for a potential half a million quid for pipping the Scousers to 3rd place, not to mention one less Champions League qualification round!
As it turned out, it seemed as if many of our squad had already slipped away on their summer vacations. Perhaps Le Prof was counting on the enthusiasm of youth, as Wenger once again baffled us all, with his bizarre selection of six wet behind the ear defenders, two of whom found themselves playing in midfield. With a "strikeforce" of that bumbling oaf Baptista and a defensive midfielder in Diaby, it was never going to be the sort of goalfest enjoyed at some other games, where leg-weary players made for exciting open matches.
Most fun was had prior to the match, with the amusing procession of oddball outfits making their way into the ground. Naturally since the Sun have outed her as a Gooner, the Queen graced us with her presence. Yet up until now I hadn't realised that Fred Flinstone, Scooby Doo and the 118 freaks were members of the faith. The loudest cheer was reserved for someone in drag, adorned with an "Ashley's boyfriend" tag.
Graham Poll joined in the spirit of the occasion and came dressed as a ref. Making his last appearance in black, he took the adaptation of his own personal chant in good faith, stopping to applaud our chorus of "oh Graham Poll, you'll be signing on the dole" during his pre-match warm up. But then I suppose it's far less offensive to his ears than the original version. Naturally we returned his acknowledgment with two-fingered interest
After preparing in best boy scout fashion for the worst the elements had to throw at us, within fifteen minutes of KO, the sea breeze had dispersed the depressing rain clouds, for the yellow orb to peek out from behind them and bathe the ground in bright sunlight for the remainder of the afternoon, saving those in fancy dress from being drenched and perhaps losing their deposits. Thus perhaps the best thing that can be said about the ninety minutes of this mundane end of season contest was that, contrary to all expectations, at least we didn't end up getting pissed on.
A chant of "Where's the w***er with the bell" raised a giggle, but there was little other entertainment, apart from a flying save from our stand-in Estonian keeper to tip over a Kanu effort. Unbelievably this was Poom's Premiership debut, after having arrived at the Arsenal way back in August 2005 and I can't help wonder why a keeper of his calibre would want to waste what's left of his career, collecting his wages, whilst waiting in line behind Lehmann and Almunia for such a rare outing. With our "big" summer signing of some unknown Polish goal minder, perhaps he'll slip even further down the pecking order!
It was as excited as we got all afternoon, when Primus blatantly brought Eboué down in the box and Poll awarded the penalty. That was until it dawned on us that Baptista had bagged the ball and was about to take the resulting spot kick. The less than impressive Brazilian struck his pen sweetly enough but it was the perfect height for James to pull off an impressive save. While I respect him for having the balls to take it in the first place, Baptista's failure certainly wasn't the way to win friends and curry favour on the terraces. Although it's a little late for that, as we're all terrified that the complexities of the Reyes deal might see us stuck with this lame beast.
As the second half wore on, there were the first signs of a proper Pompey atmosphere, as it became obvious that the home fans had heard news that the Bolton and Reading results were going their way. They raised the temperature, believing that a European tour was within their grasp and must have thought they'd cracked UEFA Cup qualification, as they eventually inspired the home side on to finding the back of the net. But we took sadistic pleasure in pointing out otherwise, once Poll had consulted his linesman and ruled the goal offside.
While young Djourou displayed some cool touches in his unfamiliar midfield role, it was once again only the displays of Fabregas and Clichy that stood out, for their demonstration of the sort of drive and commitment that is demanded of a player wanting to win such a nondescript encounter. Even if their total experience only amounted to a Carling Cup appearance and three sub appearances between all five of the kids on the bench, I couldn't understand Arsène's reluctance to give the likes of Randall a run out, as it became evident that we were running out of steam and Fabregas, for one, seriously began to flag. Especially when third place was there for the taking right up until the Scousers scored a last minute equaliser.
While the Arsenal played out a decidedly unsatisfying goalless draw, I had to content myself with the vicarious thrill from the radio coverage of far more engrossing events elsewhere. Setting aside any allegiances to West Ham supporting boss, unlike the vast majority of neutrals, I for one was delighted to hear that the Hammers were hanging on to their lead at the Theatre of Dreams, if only that their survival means one less schlep up North next season.
Personally I think it's a pity that the authorities lacked the "cahones" to dock West Ham a couple of points, because as it turned out, it would've been terrific to hear the away section of Old Trafford resounding to the familiar refrain of "you can stick your f***ing two points up your arse". Moreover I can't stand the sheep like way in which the footballing world is riding this shortsighted wave of moral indignation over the shady machinations surrounding Mascherano and Tevez.
Although the artistry of Tevez has almost single-handedly kept West Ham's Premiership hopes afloat over the past few weeks, ironically, what everyone seems to have conveniently forgotten, is that it was the upheaval caused by the arrival of the two Argies which had such a negative initial impact on the spirit within the West Ham dressing room, thereby putting the complete mockers on their season in the first place!
Arsenal Analysis said...
It is an encouraging sign that by playing so many youngsters in such an away fixture and also out of position we still managed to play very well and miss a penalty.
This proves that the squad has depth.
By the way, 3rd and 4th both enter in the third qualification round for CL.
Bernard said...
Pleased to discover someone is paying attention :-)
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Ron Paul: The Videogame
By Jon Christian April 20, 2012
It was the internet that allowed fringe candidate Ron Paul to explode in popularity, becoming at a certain point a serious runner in the 2012 Republican primary. So perhaps it's fitting that he will be immortalized in a video game.
Ron Paul: Road To REVOLution has broken it's $5,000 Kickstarter goal with 11 days to go – benefiting, perhaps from Paul's web popularity.
"The Road to REVOLution is a sidescrolling platformer action/adventure game, reminiscent of console classics like Super Mario Brothers and Sonic the Hedgehog," reads the project's page.
The game will feature battles with 13 bosses, each representing a branch of the Federal Reserve, the central banking system of the United States and perennial target of the Texas senator. The game will be programmed in HTML5, and developer Daniel Williams hopes to port it to iOS and Android.
Williams, who also designs t-shirts, has set an ambitious early-summer release date for the project, with a beta expected in June and the final release expected for July.
It's difficult to judge the tone of the game from the Kickstarter page, but it appears that the game will be humorous while supportive of the septuagenarian Texas senator. A promotional poster shows Paul in an action pose with a grey-haired woman, presumably his long-time spouse Carol Wells.
The project description comes close to connecting the theme of indie game development with Paul's libertarian ideology, but falls a little short.
"Through this game, and others, my sincere hope is to perpetuate the spirit of Indie Games, which I feel is sort of the last bastion of 'Free' gaming," Williams wrote. "There is so much red tape that game developers face in the world of gaming today that destroys what may have been some of our favorite games."
Screen shots of Williams' current work on the game show blocky characters climbing on floating islands against backdrops that, according to Williams, will be artistically based on the 50 United States.
Williams has expressed surprise at the degree of media attention the project has garnered.
"Something crazy is happening, ABC news, Fox News, CBS, and now my local NBC affiliate all contacted me today about the video game," he wrote on Facebook.
The Ron Paul campaign has not released a statement regarding the project.
Image: Daniel Williams
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