American Conference 2016

[ChrisGeorge]

Dr. David Sterritt will discuss "The Ripper, the Lodger, and Hitchcock’s Existential Outsider" on Friday at RipperCon in Baltimore, April 8-10. Dr Sterritt is a film professor at the Maryland Institute College of Art and editor-in-chief of the Quarterly Review of Film and Video. His thirteen books include The Films of Alfred Hitchcock, published by Cambridge University Press in 1993, and he is on the Editorial Advisory Board of the Hitchcock Annual. Also on Friday, Dr. Sterritt will be part of a panel on Ripper fiction with best-selling novelist Stephen Hunter (I, Ripper) and Mr. Hunter's researcher, Lenne Miller, to be chaired by Janis Wilson. Don't miss out on RipperCon! Space limited! Complete information on Rippercon can be found at http://rippercon.com/.

[mklhawley]

Hi all,

For further enticement; it looks like I will be able to fit the Tumblety/Charles Dunham new finds in my lecture, and many will be quite surprising. To be honest, though, these are less significant finds that some of the others specific to Tumblety's suspect status with Scotland Yard AND today. You can blame some of these on David Barrett and Howard Brown for giving me leads (although they didn't know it). And of course, I will be adding finds from Roger and Joe. I need skeptics in the crowd for peer review!

Sincerely,

Mike

[ChrisGeorge]

Howard Brown of JtRForums.com will discuss "Diamonds in the Rough: A Positive View of the Contemporary Papers" at RipperCon in Baltimore, April 8-10. Howard has made an extensive study of how the case is discussed in newspapers in Britain and the United States and elsewhere. The effects of the notoriety of the Whitechapel murders were profound, leading to echoes of the case for years afterward worldwide. Howard will share his findings with us at RipperCon. Don't miss out! Space limited! Complete information on Rippercon can be found at http://rippercon.com/.

[ChrisGeorge]

Hello all!

Time is getting short to sign up for RipperCon, our weekend extravaganza in Baltimore April 8-10 starring Martin Fido. In order not to miss out, we urge you to book now!

Our website gives the complete rundown of speakers and times:

http://rippercon.com/rippercon-speakers/

http://rippercon.com/rippercon-schedule/

Registration costs and bus tour price are given on the main page --

http://rippercon.com/

As noted, our base hotel for RipperCon is the Mount Vernon Baltimore Hotel, a block east of the Maryland Historical Society where the talks will take place 1 pm to 6 pm on Friday, April 8 and 9 am to 5 pm on Saturday, April 9, with the bus tour taking place on the morning of Sunday, April 10 as the last event of the weekend.

Rooms can be booked at the Mount Vernon Baltimore Hotel for the special price of $119 a night by going to Rippercon. Alternative hotels are available, some offering even cheaper rates, particularly the Biltmore Suites on Madison Street, just a block north of both the Historical Society and the Mt Vernon Hotel (http://hotels.desertusa.com/Maryland.../11244557.html).

Best regards

Chris

[ChrisGeorge]

Haunted History in Baltimore on Youtube:

https://youtu.be/iWVbdNrViOM

Might you see the ghost of Edgar Allan Poe or Francis Tumblety or John Wilkes Booth or Francis Scott Key while you are attending RipperCon? Each of these colorful figures walked the streets of Baltimore and may still do so. Who knows what might happen after the performance of "Poe's Last Stanza" by C. J. Crowe following the Saturday night Banquet at the Mt. Vernon Baltimore Hotel particularly after we have imbibed a few glasses of Amontillado!

In any case, spaces are fast filling up for RipperCon, so don't miss out.

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 The Complete Jack the Ripper 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 Jonathan Menges of Casebook's "Rippercast" podcast series.

The schedule and costs, hotel information, etc., are at http://rippercon.com/

Best regards

Chris

John Eager Howard monument, Mount Vernon, Baltimore, 1909. Robert L. Harris Collection, Baltimore City Life Museum Collection. Courtesy Maryland Historical Society.

[ChrisGeorge]

Hi Mike

Thanks for mentioning that link for people to book at the Mt Vernon Hotel. Here for convenience I reiterate the information on the conference --

Our website gives the complete rundown of speakers and times:

http://rippercon.com/rippercon-speakers/

http://rippercon.com/rippercon-schedule/

Registration costs and bus tour price are given on the main page --

http://rippercon.com/

As noted, our base hotel for RipperCon is the Mount Vernon Baltimore Hotel, a block east of the Maryland Historical Society where the talks will take place 1 pm to 6 pm on Friday, April 8 and 9 am to 5 pm on Saturday, April 9, with the bus tour taking place on the morning of Sunday, April 10 as the last event of the weekend.

Rooms can be booked at the Mount Vernon Baltimore Hotel for the special price of $119 a night by going to Rippercon.

Best regards

Chris

[mklhawley]

I just reserved a room at Mount Vernon, so they're available! I used the link provided by Chris (post #71).

Sincerely,
Mike

[Steadmund Brand]

HAHAHA

Oh well.. one day too late.. already booked at Biltmore....

Steadmund Brand

[ChrisGeorge]

Hi all

Just had this from the Mt Vernon Hotel.... there are, as noted, rooms available for the complete weekend at the special rate of $119 a night but anyone interested in attending RipperCon should book before the rooms get snapped up!

Chris

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Hi Chris,

Your group still able to book. The hotel is sold out though for anyone outside your group.

Sorry for the confusion. Let me know if you have any other questions.

Thank you,

Gretchen Shaffer
Mt Vernon Baltimore Hotel

[ChrisGeorge]

Good to know! Thanks, Mike.

Chris

[mklhawley]

Hi all

I have been told that the Mount Vernon Hotel is fully booked up for the night of Friday, April 8. Here are a number of other hotel suggestions that you might also find useful if you have not already booked your stay.

The nearby Biltmore Suites on W. Madison looks a good bet at a good price. http://hotels.desertusa.com/Maryland.../11244557.html. The Tremont Plaza hotel is not that far away http://hotels.desertusa.com/Maryland.../10054619.html but more expensive. Cheaper options within walking distance are the Rodeway Inn http://hotels.desertusa.com/Maryland...ore/78593.html and the Abacrombie http://hotels.desertusa.com/Maryland...re/327615.html.

Good luck!

Best regards

Chris

I just made reservations at the DesertUSA! Looking forward to it!

Mike

[GUT]

Hi Steadmund

Yes indeed it should be a great weekend and my co-organizier Janis Wilson and I are greatly looking forward to it. I live in Baltimore but nonetheless I have booked to stay at the hotel on Saturday night figuring that it is going to be a late night, particularly with the boozy Brits and Aussie or two we are expecting over! The performance of "Poe's Last Stanza" by C. J. Crowe will follow the banquet at the Mount Vernon Hotel on Saturday night and I suspect there will be some late night carousing in the bar afterward, so rather than have to drive home I thought to take the room in the hotel in anticipation! By the way there is a short video of "Poe's Last Stanza" that will give you a flavor of the event if you have not seen it. Go to https://youtu.be/ky729kmnCcI. Also I believe you had asked about us going to the Nutshell Studies of Unexpected Death at the Maryland Coroners Office and we have arranged to get in to see them during the Sunday four-hour bus tour. See http://wp.me/p5N2kU-hj #ForensicScience #Crime #FrancesGlessnerLee. During the tour, in addition to going to Poe's grave and house you will see other locations connected to the great writer who died mysteriously in Baltimore on October 7, 1849... along with Tumblety and Booth family sites.



Cheers!


Chris

Sounding better every day.

[ChrisGeorge]

I only wish you could make it GUT....I think we would have a great time...and I believe you might even convert to being a Brisbane fan by the end of the weekend!!!!

P.S every game of the NAB is being broadcast here for the first time ever.....I'm a happy guy....actually watching Hawthorne v Carlton game I DVR'd from last night ( hard to watch live and wake up for work...darn time zones)..

Fear not my friend....you will get a full review of the conference...and if I can convince Mr. Menges to let me get on a rippercast I may even name drop you ��

Steadmund Brand

Hi Steadmund

Yes indeed it should be a great weekend and my co-organizier Janis Wilson and I are greatly looking forward to it. I live in Baltimore but nonetheless I have booked to stay at the hotel on Saturday night figuring that it is going to be a late night, particularly with the boozy Brits and Aussie or two we are expecting over! The performance of "Poe's Last Stanza" by C. J. Crowe will follow the banquet at the Mount Vernon Hotel on Saturday night and I suspect there will be some late night carousing in the bar afterward, so rather than have to drive home I thought to take the room in the hotel in anticipation! By the way there is a short video of "Poe's Last Stanza" that will give you a flavor of the event if you have not seen it. Go to https://youtu.be/ky729kmnCcI. Also I believe you had asked about us going to the Nutshell Studies of Unexpected Death at the Maryland Coroners Office and we have arranged to get in to see them during the Sunday four-hour bus tour. See http://wp.me/p5N2kU-hj #ForensicScience #Crime #FrancesGlessnerLee. During the tour, in addition to going to Poe's grave and house you will see other locations connected to the great writer who died mysteriously in Baltimore on October 7, 1849... along with Tumblety and Booth family sites.



Cheers!


Chris

[Steadmund Brand]

I only wish you could make it GUT....I think we would have a great time...and I believe you might even convert to being a Brisbane fan by the end of the weekend!!!!

P.S every game of the NAB is being broadcast here for the first time ever.....I'm a happy guy....actually watching Hawthorne v Carlton game I DVR'd from last night ( hard to watch live and wake up for work...darn time zones)..

Fear not my friend....you will get a full review of the conference...and if I can convince Mr. Menges to let me get on a rippercast I may even name drop you ��

Steadmund Brand

[GUT]

Ok... my hotel is officially booked.. and flight will be booked later....just wondering... who else is going to be there? come on folks don't be shy lets have a show of hands


Steadmund Brand

Well done Steady.

I'll be there.


In spirit.