The current Greenbrier Valley Theatre (GVT) production of “Ken Ludwig’s Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery” which is based on the novel, “The Hound of the Baskervilles” by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, has a Greenbrier Valley connection.
Doyle used the legend of Sheriff of Devonshire Richard Cabell as the basis for this most famous Sherlock Holmes story. Cabell is buried in an above ground tomb in Holy Trinity Church cemetery in Buckfastleigh in southwest England.
The surprising local connection was researched by two members of the Greenbrier Historical Society.
The fourth great-nephew descendant of Richard Cabell, Henry Clay Cabell, was a former Sheriff of Greenbrier County who lived in Lewisburg and later in the Cabell House Hotel in White Sulphur Springs. He is buried in the Old Stone Church Cemetery in Lewisburg.
Henry’s son, Napolean Bonaparte Cabell, better known as Mayor “Tobe” Cabell of White Sulphur Springs, is buried beside his father.
The production at GVT of “Ken Ludwig’s Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery” continues Thursday through Saturday, May 16-18.
For further information on this production, visit www.gvtheatre.org or telephone 304-645-3838.