Tom Brydges
Monday 9:30 – 11:30 AM
January 9 through January 30, 2006
D.O.C. House
What is it about the sixty Sherlock Holmes stories that gives such enjoyment and has kept them alive for over a century? That has caused an "industry" (movies, radio and TV series, annotated books and pastiches, Holmesian societies, the "Hounds of the Internet" etc) to be based on them? In this mini-course we will have fun reading and discussing a number of Holmes' stories, posing and addressing questions they stimulate.
The format of the course will mainly be reading and discussion. Participants will also investigate and give brief reports on topics that crop up in discussion. There will also be some presentation by the leader on topics such as Sherlockian resources and scholarship.
This course is aimed to draw out those who are now or were in the past Holmes' fans, as well as others who are curious. If you yearn to turn the clock back to 1895 and have some escapist fun and intellectual stimulation, the game will be afoot in this course.
TOM BRYDGES is an Anglophile – especially enjoying Carroll, Churchill, the Economist and British crosswords, and Sherlock Holmes. His Sherlockian credentials include exploring Dartmoor and other Holmes sites during two years living in London, and membership in two scion societies – the Bootmakers of Toronto and the Baker Street Breakfast Club of Bennington, VT. Tom holds engineering degrees from MIT and has had a career mostly in technical leadership positions. He has lived in Hanover six years and works at Hypertherm.
