The Devonshire Chronicle

Duration:October 1988 to January 1997, twenty-nine issues, nine years
Frequency: Quarterly
Editor: Michael W. McClure
Club Affiliation: The Chester Baskerville Society

The Chester Baskerville Society proved an important point, and The Devonshire Chronicle remains a record of that point -- you don't need a big city to have a lively Sherlockian group.While it might be pointed out that founder Michael W. McClure learned this lesson as a member of sister-scion, The Occupants of the Empty House, the Chronicle demonstrates that he learned that lesson well. And even though the Chronicle could be any number of pages (four to twenty-eight), it included features that few other publications would even attempt: Little surprise flaps, a full page glossy centerspread of the 1994 BSI dinner photo (with permission of the photographers), and hand-colored Popeyes on the cover. (Popeye's creator, Elzie Seger, was from Chester, Illinois.)

-- BAK