1. "Swansea, MA Town History Site"
Posted by kimberly on Sep-21st-02 at 2:57 AM

http://www.swanseamass.org/history.html

COOL!  This site links to LizzieAndrewBorden.com at the bottom!

There is a book noted here, at the Swansea Public Library:

"Let Me Introduce You To Helen Pierce", by Nancy Collins Boardman, 1993.

Who is Helen Pierce of Swansea?  The name is familiar but what is her fame?

This link is for the Keeley Library, B.M.C.Durfee High
School of Fall River 'FALL RIVER HISTORY--SELECTED RESOURCES'.
http://janeconstant.tripod.com/FallRiverHistory.htm.
They have dozens of books on Fall River & the Lizzie Borden
case, but they don't have the authors named.


The first page is http://janeconstant.tripod.com.


A ton of Fall River links are also included.
http://www.boremco.com/brfall.htm

That last Link you gave:

I tried "Fall River Tourist Attractions"--zero
&  "Visit The Lizzie Borden Murder Scene"--bezero
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I would like to know why 2 different people that I know of, wanted to interview Helen Pierce?

On some of the pages it says "work in progress"
maybe they will get their links updated soon.
I got a 'file not found' page for the tourist attractions.

I've cant remember hearing of Helen Pierce in any of my
Lizzie readings, maybe someone else knows? Does anyone
ever look in here? Anybody?? Hello!??

Hello!  I found this site which mentions her and even shows her picture.

http://www.b101.com/towntour.html

Thanks dude! She looks good for 101, doesn't she?!
I wonder if she ever ran into Lizzie? She wasn't even
a whipper-snapper when Lizzie died, she was almost pushing 30!

So everyone wanted to talk to her as the oldest Citizen?

Thanks Harry.

I wonder what she knew?

William, do you know anything about Ms. Pierce?

BTW:  That radio website needs some serious overhauling!

good question,
i was just at helen pierces' home a few weeks ago for the third time.
she is 101.
she is doing very well.
she is on the biography video about miss borden.
she related to me in a 6 page letter about 4 0r 5 of the people that she personally knew that were in miss l. bordens will.
she said that her great aunt lucy macomber was a schoolmate of miss borden.
she also said that back in the early or mid-twenties she was working in an interior decorator shop in fall river and that miss borden and her house keeper nellie miller came in and that miss borden spoke to her and said"did you know that i knew your aunt"?
and miss pierce said,"did you"?
she told me she has met miss borden a few times.
and that miss borden would send someone to buy things like draperies and wallpaper.
she also related to me that her grandmother had invited miss borden over for thanksgiving dinner and she accepted.
she told me that during one visit to the macomber home in swansea
helen's grandmother had just had twin boys{clifton and clinton}and miss borden asked if she could give the middle name to one of them.
when told yes.
she gave him the middle name borden.
mrs.helen davis pierce is the widow of mr. david pierce.
she is still very active in geneology work.

miss borden 

mrs. pierce stated that she knew the wife and two daughters of mr.eddy who ran the farm for andrew.{i forgot their names}.
she says she saw mr. eddy around town a few times but she had never met him personally.
after the borden murders mr. eddy and family had moved to a house located at luthers four corners for several years.
and then the family moved to main st.
just a few doors down from mrs. pierce.

WOW!  Thank you SO much!

(btw:  did you look in your letterbox?)

I just checked in here & look what I'm missing! Did
she say if Lizzie actually came over for Thanksgiving?
Can you imagine telling the family guess who is coming
to dinner? That was cool about her getting to pick the baby's
middle name. Wouldn't it be something if Ms. Pierce was internet
ready & joined the forum?