Day 1
Cocktails 6:30 p.m.
Dinner 7:00 p.m.
Hounds of the Baskerville (sic) dinner
The speaker will be George H. Scheetz. His topic is Quick Watson, the Story: Starrett as The Needle.
Day 2
OCTOBER 24, 2026
8:30 registration
9:00-9:15 - Welcoming remarks Linda Crohn and Jonathan Shimberg
9:15-10:00 Vincent Starrett - Introduction to a Life -Ray Betzner
10:15-11:00 Vincent Starrett and the Booksellers Publishers in Chicago: Ben Abramson, Walter H. Hill, and Pascal Corvici - Richard Warren
11:15 -12:00 Vincent Starrett in Portrait and Profile - Laura Page
12:00-2:00 Lunch - box lunch - pre-chosen
Lunchtime talk - Vincent Starrett - the First Sherlockian
2:00-2:45 Tracing Vincent Starrett's life through Born In a Bookshop - Philip Cunningham
3:00 -3:45 The Collectible Vincent Starrett - Glen Miranker
4::00 -4:45 Books Alive: Vincent Starrett in Minnesota
Karen Murdoch
5:00-6:00 Social hour
6:30 Dinner
Dinnertime talk Vincent Starrett - the Quintisential Bookman - Michael Dirda
Closing Remarks - Linda Crohn and Jonathan
Shimberg
Day 3
10:30 am Gathering at the Vincent Starrett gravesite
Graceland Cemetery for rededication of the stone.
Host Max Magee