Ohio's Clients of Sherlock Holmes

From the Columbus, Ohio "This Week In News":

Scott Bond, a commercial artist, and Sherry Rose Bond, executive director of accountability and testing for Columbus Public Schools, are members of various organizations dedicated to the detective, including the prestigious Baker Street Irregulars and Florin Society. In fact, they started their own group, "The Clients of Sherlock Holmes," upon moving to central Ohio and discovering there was no such club locally.

The two met at a Sherlock Holmes society in Philadelphia.

"I didn't have to convert him and he didn't have to convert me," Rose Bond said. "We say we got married so we could merge our libraries."

Holmes and Watson entered Rose Bond's life when she was in the sixth grade in her native Chicago and was captivated by a parody of Doyle's storied stories. She immediately went to the local library to read the original tales. When, a few years later, her family moved to England, arriving on a fog-shrouded afternoon, "a real pea-souper," she said, and settled into a new home just a few blocks away from Baker Street, where Watson and Holmes had their lodgings, well ...

"That was it," Rose Bond said. "I had been somewhat hooked, but that was it."