THE
ORIGINAL TREE WORSHIPPERS OF ROCK
COUNTY MEETING MINUTES
DATE
Saturday, February 3, 2018
2:21
p.m.
LOCATION
Hedberg
Public Library Public Meeting Room
MEMBERS
PRESENT
Resa
Haile, Dawn Kabor, Elaine Khan, Dale Lucht, Bryan Pike, Gayle Lange Puhl, Linda
Robinson
CHARTER
MEMBER
James
Haile
DISCUSSION:
The Red-Headed League / The Copper
Beeches
Dawn felt the two cases were
very unusual. Sherlock Holmes wasn't interested in the Copper Beeches case at
first but was interested in the Red-Headed League case.
Resa wondered how they would
do the Red-Headed League nowadays. Gayle thought something with AI. Dawn
thought typing something in or recording it rather than copying by hand.
Gayle observed that she has always
thought of “The Copper Beeches” as a retelling of Rapunzel. She said it had
some historical precedence and thought that Adam Worth had done something
similar.
Bryan noted that Copper and
League are both stories about deception.
Dawn thought it was fun
reading both stories because she hadn't read “The Red-Headed League” for years
but “The Copper Beeches” was the story discussed at her first meeting and she
remembered all of it.
Gayle focused on the young girl
in the house in “The Red-Headed League.” She noted that fourteen was old to be
apprenticed but too young to be involved in intrigue. There was a discussion of
artificial kneecaps.
Unlike “The Red-Headed League,”
there are several women in “The Copper Beeches.” Gayle wondered what kind of
woman Mrs. Rucastle was.
Resa noted that Watson was
written out of the silent version of “The Copper Beeches” and Holmes and Watson
were both written out of the short film, “Violet,” but she felt that Holmes had
a huge impact in “The Red-Headed League.”
MISCELLANY
Gayle’s Sherlock Holmes story will
be in TheMX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories – Part VII edited by David Marcum
Resa showed her prizes from
the Well-Read Sherlockian blog: the
game, Sherlock
Holmes: Consulting Detective: The Thames Murder & other cases and a William
Gillette autograph, along with some Christmas presents, including Detectives
by Julian Symons and Sherlock Holmes paper dolls.
Gayle
reported on her trip to New York for the Baker Street Weekend.
NEXT
MEETING
“The
Speckled Band” / “The Solitary Cyclist”
Minutes prepared by Resa
Haile.
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