American Conference 2016

[Steadmund Brand]

HAHAHA

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

Steadmund Brand

[mklhawley]

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

Sincerely,
Mike

[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

[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]

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]

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/.

[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]

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/.

[ChrisGeorge]

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

This all sounds great, Mike! I am greatly looking forward to your presentation, as well as your participation in the suspects panel with Martin Fido and Robert Anderson to be moderated by Jonathan Menges.

Cheers

Chris

[ChrisGeorge]

Help us determine the identity of Jack the Ripper! Come to RipperCon: Jack the Ripper convention in Baltimore, April 8-10, 2016 starring Martin Fido (The Complete Jack the Ripper A to Z). DEADLINE TO REGISTER IS MARCH 15! DON'T MISS OUT! In addition to to talks on the Whitechapel Murders, we will discuss the Ripper in terms of the perspective of Sherlock Holmes as well as Holmes creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's own views on the Ripper case, plus analyze the circumstances of the mysterious death of Edgar Allan Poe in Baltimore in October 1849. For complete info, go to http://rippercon.com/.

Registration for RipperCon is $250 payable by Paypal to editorctrip@yahoo.com or by check made out to Christopher T. George, 3800 Canterbury Road, Apt 3E, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA. US Funds only please. Sunday bus tour of Baltimore, Maryland, including Edgar Allan Poe Grave and House, Tumblety and John Wilkes Booth associated sites and Nutshell Studies, is $40.00 extra. Tour includes on your own lunch at a restaurant. Registration of $250 includes talks and panels Friday 1:00 pm to 6:00 pm and Saturday 9:00 to 5:00 pm at the Maryland Historical Society including lunch on Saturday and refreshments both days; Friday night reception at the Mount Vernon Baltimore Hotel, and Saturday night banquet at the hotel. Post-dinner entertainment after the Saturday night banquet at the Mount Vernon Hotel is the acclaimed "Poe's Last Stanza" by C. J. Crowe.

[Steadmund Brand]

For those who are still in the fence....I hope you sign up...a chance to attend an American conference shouldn't be passed up....plus seeing Martin Fido speak, to me, is worth the price of admission.....and from what I've heard from Mike Hawley....his talk is not to be missed......and lets face it, Baltimore is a beautiful city.....and it's not just "Jack" but we will get talks about Holmes/ Doyle, Poe, Hitchcock, the Long Island Ripper, Mary Percy etc.....oh yeah...and I'll be there as well....which should make the tickets be worth at least twice as much ��

In all seriousness, it should be a fantastic weekend and I hope to meet as many fellow casebookers as possible..

Steadmund Brand

[ChrisGeorge]

Thirteen 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! If you are interested in coming, sign up now! Complete information at RipperCon.com.

[ChrisGeorge]

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.

[ChrisGeorge]

Eleven 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.

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.

Martin Fido, co-author, The Complete Jack the Ripper A to Z

[ChrisGeorge]

Hi all

Novelist Stephen Hunter (I, Ripper), previously announced as a speaker, is unable to appear because of a pressing writing commitment. Filling Stephen's spot, we are delighted to welcome as a speaker Mikita Brottman who will talk about "Why We Love True Crime." Dr. Brottman is a psychoanalyst and professor in the Department of Humanistic Studies at the Maryland Institute College of Art. She is the author of Meat is Murder! (1998), a study of cannibalism in myth, crime, and film; and the true crime collection Thirteen Girls (2013). Her next book, The Maximum Security Book Club: Reading Literature in a Men’s Prison, will be published in June 2016 by HarperCollins (for more information, see http://www.mikitabrottman.com).

Mikita Brottman will talk about "Why We Love True Crime" at RipperCon on Friday afternoon, April 8 in France Hall at the Maryland Historical Society in Baltimore.

Our website gives the complete rundown of speakers and times:

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

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

Registration cost 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.

Note deadline of March 15 to sign up for RipperCon. I have also been informed that the Mt Vernon Hotel has a March 13 deadline to take advantage of the special room rate, so if you are interested in attending our event, sign up now! Thanks!

Best regards

Chris