The Brothers Three of Moriarty programs

I've previously posted about some of the John Bennett Shaw materials I've gathered together. One reason for collecting is that I was asked to write a short Sherlockian biography of John Bennett Shaw and wanted to have both primary materials such as meeting agendas, as well as books written by Shaw. This has led to a very modest accumulation, nevertheless I enjoy looking through it. 

The things I gathered aided me immensely in writing the chapter on JBS now available in the new Wessex Press book titled 'On The Shoulders of Giants: Great Sherlockians Remembered'. The book was conceived and edited by Rob Nunn and Pete Eckrich. In my case, Shaw was not really remembered - I never met him - but I did have a chance to speak to people who knew Shaw as I pulled my narrative together, including Peter Blau, Jim Hawkins, Evy Herzog, and Ray Betzner. 

I'll post a submitted version of that chapter on my blog soon.

One of my favorite elements of JBS is his scion 'Brothers Three of Moriarty', and I have some programs for meetings. Each year the scion hosted a trap shoot (around mid-year), and an Unhappy Birthday Moriarty meeting (in November).

Here are some examples of programs for both meetings - these are all I have. I've pasted them here roughly chronologically.

Left: Program for the 1977 Colonel Sebastian Moran Trap Shoot and Dinner Meeting and Right: Program for the 1976 The Professor James Moriarty Unhappy Birthday.

Above: Program for the 1980 The Tenth Annual Professor James Moriarty Unhappy Birthday.

Above: Program for the 1982 Twelfth Annual Colonel Sebastian Moran Trap Shoot and Dinner Meeting

Above: Program for the 1983 Thirteenth Annual Colonel Sebastian Moran Trap Shoot and Dinner Meeting

Above: Program for the 1986 Fifteenth Commemoration of the Lamentable Birth of the Depraved Professor James Moriarty.

Above: Program for the 1987 Sixteenth Colonel Sebastian Moran Trap Shoot and Dinner Meeting

Left: Program for the 1989 Seventeenth Unhappy Birthday to You Bastard Moriarty Celebration, and Right: Program for the 1989 Seventeenth Colonel Sebastian Moran Trap Shoot.

Above: Program for the 1991 Eighteenth Unhappy Birthday You Bastard Moriarty Celebration.