Mar 14, 2008
A visit to a venerable scion society, the Sons of the Copper
Beeches, in October 2007. Headmastiff Gideon Hill describes the
group's history, assisted by Scott Bond, who then offers remarks
about his 25 years as the Baker Street Journal's cartoonist. We
close with an Editor's Gas Lamp from July, 1959 featuring Edgar
Smith's thoughts "On the Forms of Address."
Show Notes:
1:30 The Great
Interruption
6:20 En route to the
SOCB
7:40 Meeting Gideon
Hill
9:00 Gideon's history of
the SOCB
11:10 Encountering Peter
Blau
12:35 Scott Bond recalls
the SOCB in the 1970's
14:45 Making friends at
scion society meetings
17:35 Introducing Scott
Bond's remarks
18:50 The Lament of the
Sherlockian Cartoonist
23:15 Carl Barks and Walt
Disney
30:30 A cartoon a month
31:00 How it all comes
together
35:30 Camouflage in
Japan
41:15 Scott's production
process
46:00 Editor's Gas Lamp
from the Baker Street
Journal Volume 9, No. 3, July 1959: "On the Forms of
Address"
Links:
The Sons of
the Copper Beeches
The Baker Street
Journal
Christopher
Morley on Wikipedia