Mondo Lizzie Borden

I ran across this January 3, 2005, blog entry by the author Andrea Seigel, author of To Feel Stuff and Like the Red Panda.

It is a thoughtful story about how Lizzie Borden haunts her thoughts and creative life. She describes in vivid detail her reactions to the Lizzie Borden Had an Axe documentary that appeared in 2005 on Discovery Channel, featuring the luminol testing and the doll house recreation (this is the show I was part of). It is extremely well written. You have to take a look.

Maybe Fall River could use something like this to advertise their fair city.

From the Plattsburgh Sentinel, October 23, 1894.

At Clark University, College of Professional and Continuing Education, in Worcester, MA, you can take a course that has as its course requirements the study of the Borden trial. I know of several high school social studies classes using the case to investigate the legal system, and one other seminar-type course of study at a university in Europe (taught by the eminent professor Stephen Nissenbaum), but this is the first catalogued course I have seen. I hope that those are evening meeting times!

Thanks to “intrepid reporter” for bringing this to my attention.

Great American Criminal Trials
CJ2090 M 6:30-9:30 Section: 1
Donald Moran
From colonial times to the present, trials have been the ultimate means to resolve disputes in American society. They also serve as a source of popular entertainment, public ritual and real-life drama. Included in the trials we study will be Lizzie Bordon, John Hinckley, Louis Woodward and the recent Massachusetts trials of Drs. Sharpe and Greinder; John Geoghan’s child molestation trial and Commonwealth v. Junta. We will examine the seriousness of the crimes, the impaneling of jurors, trial tactics, verdicts, etc.

“Intrepid reporter” found this on the web. “Ordered to stay at home and chop wood, instead, he grabbed an axe and battered his father, Guenter, 63, to death. Then he hacked away at his mother, Rita, 42, as they lay in bed.” I tell you, the youth of today are such cut ups.

I bought one of these Lizzie Borden Took An Ax Scary Victorian Poster and I love mine. The quality is superb (heavy stock paper) and the artwork is magnificent. The starting price is only $6.99, but the BuyItNow price of $14.99 is a deal.

Also check out this seller’s (Madame Talbot) eBay store for more gothic delights. I also own the Jack the Ripper and the Tennessee Bell Witch posters. And I have my eye on the HRH Royal Highness Pug Dog Pugsley Victorian Poster. These items also make excellent gifts.

No, I don’t get a cut.