Lizzie Borden Society Forum

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Friday began early with a trip to the New Bedford Courthouse. We were all surprised that we were able to have complete access to the court room, and were invited to even sit in the judge's chair. It is a small space and surely every sigh Lizzie made was audible. This was the weekend highlight for me!

The original table for Lizzie's defense team.

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A great thrill for us all was to stand in the jury box.

One surprise was finding this large oil portrait of Hosea Knowlton hanging to one side of the judge's bench over a doorway.

Mrs. MacDonald, Mike and Katrina and Bob Shaw listen intently to Chief Tavares

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The dock to the right of the judge's bench. This is not the original.

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Attorney Barbara MacDonald listens to Chief Tavares. The space behind the bench for one judge is tight- three must have really been cozy! Barbara was one of the original 6 "Irregulars" and has often played Lizzie.

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Original gaslight fixture which was operational until recently.

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"Kristin" Kfactor behind Moody's and Knowlton's oilcloth-topped table

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The law library skylight stained glass

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Law library second tier of legal volumes

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Probable remnant of back door of courthouse which led out to the stables. Now leading to the annex added to the back of the building.

The staircase up which Lizzie entered court every day.

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Waiting on the front of the courthouse steps

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#16 Lunch at White's in Westport

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Second Street Irregulars at Second Street
Barbara, Kristin, Katrina and Len in the background

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Banquet party favor at the Abbey Grille

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Lots O' Muttons:

Shelley, Barbara and Debbie

Shelley, here's a slightly better photo of the three of you at the Abby Grill.
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Ted and Lorraine

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Thanks Richard! Here is Cemetery Jeff pondering the game afoot!

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shelley in the basement...spooky huh?

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One of the high points of the weekend was getting into the Central Congregational Church. After a wonderful dinner at the Abby Grill, we asked the owner if we could pop into the church and to our surprise he allowed us to romp around, take pictures, and even answered our questions about the church.

In the second photo, check our Cemetary Jeff's eyes!

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Dapper Fairhaven Guy at the Town Hall

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Gingerbread house under construction at the Abbey Grille kitchen, once the Central Congregational front parlor.

Great photos! Lots of smiling faces. Shelley is a great hostess and gives the Energizer bunny a run for his money.

How nice that you got a tour of the Court House and Fairhaven. Sorry I couldn't be there for those.

Richard, thanx for the photos inside the church. I haven't been inside yet.

Jeff - love the Red Sox jacket!

Keep the photos coming!

Fantastic stuff you guys! You really packed in the fun! So nice to see you'all!!!
Thanks for the pictures.
Shell, #12 has a giant orb, at the stairway in the courthouse.

Love the Deerstalker hats!

It was 75 degrees here.
(My consolation prize...)

Oh man, That pic of me at White's is horrible. It looks like I'm ready to
AXE somebody LOL.

It was a fun weekend. Can't wait for May!! Didn't really do Oak Grove too much except for a quick run drive to Lizzie's. This will give me time
to find Helen Leighton, Charles J Holmes and Charles Allen for May

Yes! I noticed that orb too Kat. Hmmmm..Lizzie coming up the steps??

Just for the record, (again), I have noted on the first page of this photo album that I plan to invoke photo copyright law on any and all of my photos posted here. They are not to appear on any blog and I will go immediately to the server with a complaint if they are posted without MY permission. All of this sounds very mean-spirited I know, but some of the people from the forum gathering have been approached for photos and info of the event to post and use by, GUESS WHO?

So, Faye, there is NOTHING about the gathering or photos of the event in the Privy and you can clearly READ all of this right here on this public thread for Guests. There is a Privy for a reason, by the way, but you are not the center of any kind of attention there. Some of us have duly noted your beat-feet journey to Luther's Corner to copy the poses and photos of the new Andrew Borden photograph, imitating the Hatchet for your blog. Good for you. Also duly noted is the newspaper article about same "lifted" directly from Mondo Lizzie.
You are of course, Faye, quite free to come and go as you see fit, but you are not free to insinuate yourself into a private gathering, such as this was, and to which you were not invited, nor to pester, intimidate or inveigle photos and reports of the doings from guests who did attend for your private purposes, and no doubt personal ridicule. If you want to know what went on, you can read it here, see it HERE and there will be a very nice PUBLIC coverage on Warps and Wefts, and the group's own web blog, Second Street Irregulars-both of which I am certain you check daily. That all seems pretty clear.

Sorry folks, and now we return you to our regularly scheduled program.

The church inside is amazing, Harry. All great Gothic Revival and High Victorian with acres of dark walnut carving and stained glass. So many of my photo did not come out very well and I hope others got some better ones. The one funny note was the long bar filled with bottles and bottles of booze on the right front alcove- the Temperance Union would have had coronaries!

Great photos! The great time you all had is clearly reflected in the photos. Thanks for sharing them with those of us that would like to have joined your ranks, but couldn't. Maybe next time!

PS: That's one BIG orb!

Thanks! More to come soon. And I do hope more forum members will come out in May and for the December 16th gathering for the Painted Ladies Christmas house tour sponsored by the Fall River Preservation Society. Second Street will be on the tour again this year.

In Photo #17 of Barbara, Kristin, Katrina and Len check out the floating face in the picture of Andrew.

It's Shelley taking the picture of course!

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Oh shoot, Richard, I thought we were having a psychic moment there for a minute! We need to get some non-reflecting glass for ole Andrew.



Some of the gang chowing down on linguica at Pumpernickel's, Fairhaven.

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By mid afternoon Saturday the raw wind was giving us the Big Chill in Riverside Cemetery on our pilgrimage to see Eli Bence. Red roses, the symbol of Lancashire, were the order of the day for Eli.

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Riverside is a beautiful place, to rival Oak Grove, and we had hoped to spend more time there seeing citizens of note- but weather prohibited a lengthier stay.

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A return to Green Street

Great pics, Shelley and Richard!

I took 95 photos over the weekend! ! I plan to post a few, soon - right now the files are all too big for posting here... A little tweaking should do it!

Clearly, from the pictures, it was a bad hair weekend for me, but Muttoneaters don't let vanity get in the way of investigation - and fun!

Richard and Shelley, the photos are absolutely amazing!!! Everyone appears to be having such a great time - I'm just sorry I couldn't be there to join in the fun. I want to thank both of you for sharing your photos with us.

stuartwsa @ Wed Nov 14, 2007 9:52 am wrote:PS: That's one BIG orb!

I noticed the big orb, too. Wow!

Richard @ Wed Nov 14, 2007 9:56 am wrote:In Photo #17 of Barbara, Kristin, Katrina and Len check out the floating face in the picture of Andrew.

It's Shelley taking the picture of course!

Oh, my gosh - I didn't notice this when viewing the photo for the first time. Thanks for pointing this out to us, Richard. Very cool photo, Shelley!

The house at 66 Union Street where Emma may have stayed with the Brownells at a later time. Correct me if I have this wrong Fairhaven Guy!

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Holding forth in the haunted library full of Rogers family portraits.

Shelley @ Wed Nov 14, 2007 9:22 am wrote: ... All of this sounds very mean-spirited I know, but some of the people from the forum gathering have been approached for photos and info of the event to post and use by, GUESS WHO? ...

Shelley, you are NOT being mean-spirited. These are your photos and it is your right to place a stipulation on who is allowed to use them; the request for obtaining your permission is not, at all, unreasonable. I think we are very lucky that you are more than willing to share them with us, and I want to thank you for that.

This group of Second Street Irregulars was revived from a group formed by six people in 1993: Barb MacDonald, Len Rebello, Ken Souza, Ed Thibault, Debbie Shannon and myself- and I thought -what better place than the Lizzie Borden Society Forum to "recruit" new members of people interested and knowlegeable about the case. And so these are our photos, and any forum member is welcomed to attend SSI forum functions. The photos were taken FOR forum folks and I sure hope we have many years ahead of bi-annual meetings and adventures.

#30 The famous Mark Twain letter at Millicent Library