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Twelve days left to sign up for RipperCon in Baltimore April 8-10 starring Martin Fido (The Complete Jack the Ripper A to Z) -- deadline March 15! Don't miss out on this unique event! If you are interested in coming, sign up now! Complete information at RipperCon.com.
Yes! After a regrettable gap of a number of years, there is to be a new American Ripper convention coming up in the Mount Vernon historic district of Baltimore April 8-10 with talks at the Maryland Historical Society and Friday reception plus Saturday banquet at the Mount Vernon Baltimore Hotel.
Our guest of honor is Martin Fido, co-author of A to Z and author of other true crime books including the groundbreaking The Crimes, Detection and Death of Jack the Ripper. Martin will give a presentation on "Ripperology and Anti-Semitism" and will also be a panelist when we talk about Jack the Ripper suspects.
We will also have a presentation by best-selling novelist Stephen Hunter, author of the recently published I, Ripper, and Tumblety expert Michael Hawley promises new revelations about the controversial Dr. Francis Tumblety who lived in Baltimore in 1900 and left money in his St Louis will to fellow Irish American James Cardinal Gibbons of Baltimore as well as (in an earlier Baltimore will) a bequest to the Home for Fallen Women on North Exeter Street.
Other speakers are Robert Anderson on "The Long Island Serial Killer"; Sarah Beth Hopton on "Mary Pearcey, the Hampstead Murders, and Debunking the Myth of Jill the Ripper"; David Sterritt on "The Ripper, the Lodger, and Hitchcock’s Existential Outsider"; Howard Brown on "Diamonds in the Rough: A Positive View of the Contemporary Papers"; Christopher T. George will discuss “The Last Days of Edgar Allan Poe — Murder or Something Else?”; Janis Wilson will lead a panel on Ripper Fiction with Stephen Hunter, David Sterritt, and Lenne Miller; Janis and Chris will lead a discussion on "The Ripper, Sherlock Holmes, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle"; we will also have a discussion between the speakers and the audience on "The State of Ripperology Today."
Our M/C's for the event are Ally Ryder, administrator of "Casebook: Jack the Ripper" and Robert Anderson. Jonathan Menges has had to back out because of personal commitments.
The schedule and costs, hotel information, etc., are at RipperCon.com.
Best regards
Chris
Severn Teackle Wallis statue, Mt Vernon Historic District, Baltimore, with the city's Washington Monument (foundation stone laid 1815) in the distance. Wallis was a Baltimore lawyer and kinsman of Wallis Simpson, the Duchess of Windsor. At the beginning of the Civil War, Wallis was imprisoned in Fort McHenry for his Southern sympathies, along with Mayor George W. Brown and Police Chief George Kane, there having been a major riot on Pratt Street in the city on April 19, 1861 when a pro-South mob attacked Federal troops going to the defense of Washington, D.C.
Yes! After a regrettable gap of a number of years, there is to be a new American Ripper convention coming up in the Mount Vernon historic district of Baltimore April 8-10 with talks at the Maryland Historical Society and Friday reception plus Saturday banquet at the Mount Vernon Baltimore Hotel.
Our guest of honor is Martin Fido, co-author of A to Z and author of other true crime books including the groundbreaking The Crimes, Detection and Death of Jack the Ripper. Martin will give a presentation on "Ripperology and Anti-Semitism" and will also be a panelist when we talk about Jack the Ripper suspects.
We will also have a presentation by best-selling novelist Stephen Hunter, author of the recently published I, Ripper, and Tumblety expert Michael Hawley promises new revelations about the controversial Dr. Francis Tumblety who lived in Baltimore in 1900 and left money in his St Louis will to fellow Irish American James Cardinal Gibbons of Baltimore as well as (in an earlier Baltimore will) a bequest to the Home for Fallen Women on North Exeter Street.
Other speakers are Robert Anderson on "The Long Island Serial Killer"; Sarah Beth Hopton on "Mary Pearcey, the Hampstead Murders, and Debunking the Myth of Jill the Ripper"; David Sterritt on "The Ripper, the Lodger, and Hitchcock’s Existential Outsider"; Howard Brown on "Diamonds in the Rough: A Positive View of the Contemporary Papers"; Christopher T. George will discuss “The Last Days of Edgar Allan Poe — Murder or Something Else?”; Janis Wilson will lead a panel on Ripper Fiction with Stephen Hunter, David Sterritt, and Lenne Miller; Janis and Chris will lead a discussion on "The Ripper, Sherlock Holmes, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle"; we will also have a discussion between the speakers and the audience on "The State of Ripperology Today."
Our M/C's for the event are Ally Ryder, administrator of "Casebook: Jack the Ripper" and Robert Anderson. Jonathan Menges has had to back out because of personal commitments.
The schedule and costs, hotel information, etc., are at RipperCon.com.
Best regards
Chris
Severn Teackle Wallis statue, Mt Vernon Historic District, Baltimore, with the city's Washington Monument (foundation stone laid 1815) in the distance. Wallis was a Baltimore lawyer and kinsman of Wallis Simpson, the Duchess of Windsor. At the beginning of the Civil War, Wallis was imprisoned in Fort McHenry for his Southern sympathies, along with Mayor George W. Brown and Police Chief George Kane, there having been a major riot on Pratt Street in the city on April 19, 1861 when a pro-South mob attacked Federal troops going to the defense of Washington, D.C.
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