“Pink Moon” by the late great Nick Drake. Born in 1948, he died of an overdose of Tryptizol in his room at Far Leys, England, in 1974, at the age of 26. Pink Moon was his third and final album.
Single tickets are on sale September 5th for the Nashville Ballet’s production of The Legend of Lizzie Borden.
Single tickets range in price from $19 to $52. Tickets are available through Ticketmaster or can be purchased at the TPAC box office downtown Nashville or at Davis-Kidd Booksellers in Green Hills. To purchase group tickets, please call TPAC at 615.782.4004.
Fall Series: The Legend of Lizzie Borden, October 6-8, 2006, Polk Theater at TPAC. The highlight of the fall series is Artistic Director Paul Vasterling’s own spin on the infamous legend of Lizzie Borden. In 1892, she was found innocent of the brutal axe murders of her father and stepmother, a verdict that is still debated to this day. This original ballet is choreographed to Fall River Legend, composer Morton Gould’s dark musical interpretation of Lizzie Borden’s controversial story. Come judge for yourself; did she or didn’t she? (Brief nudity, parental discretion advised.)
The Nashville Symphony performs for The Legend of Lizzie Borden and the three accompanying ballets: Journey, Serenade and Lydian Fanfares. Salvatore Aiello’s Journey showcases the athleticism of the company’s male dancers. George Balanchine’s beautiful Serenade, his first ballet performed in the United States, is set to the music of Tchaikovsky. The program will also include a special tribute to the late Maestro Kenneth Schermerhorn with a ballet set to his composition, Lydian Fanfares.
Aspects of the Victorian Book includes a wealth of historical information regarding publishing during the Victorian Age, including both publishing and printing.
Subject areas for Production include: Printing technology, illustration, lithography, 1860s wood engraving, photographically illustrated books, binding, and John Leighton binding.
Subject areas for Printing include: Novels, yellowbacks, penny dreadfuls, children’s books, and magazines.
Thanks to mbhenty for the link!
From the Chicago Daily Tribune, August 27, 1892:
“Babylon” by David Gray. One of my favorites!
From the MySpace page of Veronica Paige:
you know you’re from fall river if…
i may not live there anymore, but you gotta represent!
¢¾ You have ever “cruised the ave,” or even spoke the term “cruise the ave.”
¢¾ You know who Lizzie Borden is and how many “whacks” were involved.
¢¾ You refer to everyone on Earth as “guy.”
¢¾ You have a rock solid preference when it comes to ordering from Domino’s or Papa Gino’s.
¢¾ You know who “Skip” Karam is.
¢¾ You attended, are attending, or are destined to attend B.M.C. Durfee High School.
¢¾ You know who Mr. Attar is/was.
¢¾ You have at least some Portuguese in you.
¢¾ You also know all the Portuguese swears.
¢¾ You live in a 3-family victorian tenement.
¢¾ Your grandparents worked in the mills.
¢¾ You are aware that you have a 50/50 shot at having the Brightman St. Bridge be closed for repairs.
¢¾ The Taunton River is like a part of you, but you’d never dare swim in it.
¢¾ You know exactly what “Fall River Celebrates” every August.
¢¾ You take your chow mein strained, thank you very much.
¢¾ You have the thickest dialect in the country–to the point where it is no longer English.
¢¾ You don’t say, “He got his ears pierced,” you say, “He got his ee-yiz pee-isst.”
¢¾ Your favorite cold drink is coffee milk and your favorite hot drink is a Dunkin Donuts “Lahge, extra cream, extra suga.”
¢¾ Providence is 15 minutes to the right, New Bedford is 15 minutes to the left, and Boston is an hour up.
¢¾ In the summer, you can be found at Horseneck.
¢¾ Westport means The Beach.
¢¾ You’ve never come to an intersection without seeing “NO TURN ON RED.”
¢¾ You have friends named Manny and Miguel. Their last names are either Medeiros, Mello, Silva, or De-something.
¢¾ You’re Catholic.
¢¾ You call it a “grinder”–not a sub or a hoagie.
¢¾ You’ll fight to the death defending your grinder shop, Marzilli’s or Marcucci’s.
¢¾ You use the word “wicked” as in “wicked good” more than all the people in Boston combined.
¢¾ New Bedford sucks!
¢¾ Providence might as well be your capital.
¢¾ You were born at Charlton Memorial.
¢¾ You can’t remember a time when Ed Lambert wasn’t the mayor.
¢¾ You’ve ever counted the humps on the “Seven Hills” to see if there are actually seven hills.
¢¾ You’re from “Faw Riva.”
UPDATE: Joe has changed his blog to wordpress and the link to his blog is here.
Please leave a comment and bookmark! Visit it often, cuz I’ll update it almost every day. It is all you ever wanted to know about Parkman-Webster and garage sales at the Carlson home.
True crime author and Hatchet contributor, Joe Carlson, has a blog I would like to direct you to. Joe is the author of The Murder of Andrew Sigler, a book I highly recommend. Joe is currently hard at work on another true crime titled “Resurrectionist Man”.
I’m working on another true crime titled “Resurrectionist Man”. Dr. George Parkman was murdered in 1849 in Boston. Professor John White Webster was executed for the murder, but I doubt if he killed Parkman. There are many glaring inconsistencies about the crime. The custodian of the medical college, Ephraim Littlefield, was responsible. When I researched the case, I discovered that Littlefield had motive, means and opportunity. The title “Resurrectionist Man” came from Littlefield’s sideline profession: supplying bodies to the Harvard Medical School where he had his residence and Webster was Professor of Chemistry.
Happy Birthday Joe!
Eric Ferguson works at a living history museum and in interested in language. To that end, he took a 19th Century book, Private Yankee Doodle, by Joseph Plumb Martin, edited by George F. Scheer (originally published in 1830, Little, Brown & Co, 1962. Eastern Acorn Press, 1988), and combed it for its vocabulary. He noted words and phrases that are no longer in use.
What I have provided herein is a list of words and phrases Martin used. Some are words that are in modern dictionaries but not in common usage. There are words that have disappeared, words that have changed meanings, and a few that haven’t changed but could be mistakenly thought too modern to use. In some instances Martin himself stopped to explain a word he thought would be unfamiliar. After each word, I give a definition, a quote from the book to show the context, and the page number for those who want to look it up. Some may “cavil” with some of my choices of words and think I left some things out or got definitions wrong, but, as long as I am not the victim of any “obloquy”, such are welcome to go and look for themselves.
My favorites are:
Harrowed up; brought to the surface. “When I arrived within sight or hearing of the army…it again harrowed up my melancholy feelings that had…subsided on my journey.” P.212
Demency; wrath. Again about the mutiny—”We did not wish to have anyone in particular to command, lest he might be singled out for a court-martial to exercise its demency upon.” P.183
Pretty well over the bay; drunk? Writing about a couple Irishmen at a sutler’s tent—”…I observed one who was, to appearances, ‘pretty well over the bay.’” P.145
Be it what it would; in any case, be it as it may, whatever the case. A phrase to stop going off on a tangent. “…I know not, unless it was to see how the people would stand affected; be it what it would, it caused me a terrible fright.” P.6
A play by Kip Rosser about Lizzie and Emma was published on the web here. The play is titled Keepsakes, “Two researchers publishing a book about the Borden sisters, find themselves caught in a web of lies that reaches across time, while the aged Lizzie and Emma reunite in a struggle for sanity.”
I read a bit of it and thought it well done.
Thanks to Intrepid Reporter for this link.
Found this gem: Arnold Brown’s senior high school photo. He graduated from Durfee High School, in Fall River. Brown is the author of Lizzie Borden: the Legend, the Truth, the Final Chapter. You can find this book in the true crime section of your local library, but in my opinion, it should be located in the fiction section instead. It is a great read, but factually unproven.
Neurotic Flower’s blog contains quite a few photos of her trip to the Lizzie Borden B&B, posted yesterday.
Did you know that in 2000 there was a Lizzie Borden exhibit at American Women! A Celebration of Our History, at the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum!
Here is the opening from Alfred Hitchcock Presents “The Older Sister”— the TV dramatization of Lillian de la Torre’s play about Lizzie Borden. Hitchcock’s dry wit is priceless here. It is a real hoot and a half. Enjoy!
The complete episode is available for sale on Amazon.com as part of Volume 1 of Alfred Hitchcock Presents. Kewl!
Premiered on October 1st, 1955, this wonderful series ran for seven seasons, and afterwards for another 3 seasons as “The Alfred Hitchcock Hour”. This set contains the first 39 episodes of Season 1, told by the `Master of Suspense’, Alfred Hitchcock. The episodes include:
01. Revenge
02. Premonition
03. Triggers in Leash
04. Don’t Come Back Alive
05. Into Thin Air (aka The Vanishing Lady)
06. Salvage
07. Breakdown
08. Our Cook’s a Treasure
09. The Long Shot
10. The Case of Mr. Pelham
11. Guilty Witness
12. Santa Claus and the 10th Avenue Kid
13. The Cheney Vase
14. A Bullet for Baldwin
15. The Big Switch
16. You Got to Have Luck
17. The Older Sister
18. Shopping for Death
19. The Derelicts
20. And So Died Riabouchinska
21. Safe Conduct
22. Place of Shadows
23. Back for Christmas
24. The Perfect Murder
25. There Was an Old Woman
26. Whodunit?
27. Help Wanted
28. Portrait of Jocelyn
29. The Orderly World of Mr. Appleby
30. Never Again
31. The Gentleman from America
32. The Babysitter
33. The Belfry
34. The Hidden Thing
35. The Legacy
36. Mink
37. The Decoy
38. The Creeper
39. Momentum
Check this out: a Lizzie Borden quiz online. There is no way to score 100% however as one of their questions does not offer any correct choices as a response. See if you can guess which one they fouled the results with.
I have had tons of requests to post this clip from New Faces of 1954. I used it in my talk on Lizzie Borden in Popular Culture that I did at the Fall River Public Library on August 9th, 2006.
This is Micheal Brown’s “Fall River Hoedown,” also known as “Lizzie Borden,” also known as “You Can’t Chop Your Poppa Up in Massachusetts.” It premiered in the New Faces of 1952 review on Broadway, but this clip is from the film of that show, renamed New Faces of 1954.
Notice the casting of Lizzie and the movements and choreography of the chorus. High-larious!
Buy your own at Amazon.com
Dunn & Powell Books of Bar Harbor, Maine, the recent sellers of the Ken Souza Lizzie Borden Collection, has another outstanding catalogue online. Ready, set, go!
Catalogue 79 features almost 902 items including a large number of pre and post-war mysteries, many in dust jacket and a selection of mystery anthologies and mystery reference titles. Among the highlights: a first English edition in dust jacket of John Dickson Carr’s first book IT WALKS BY NIGHT; a nice group of uncommon titles by E. C. R. Lorac (Carol Carnac), a lovely first edition in dust jacket of P. D. James’ first mystery COVER HER FACE.
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DareToScare.com has a brief blurb about the Lizzie Borden B&B. Nice plug for the house.
The same blog links to a site that I find much more interesting: The International Ghost Hunters Society, which shows one of those supposed ghost photos from 92 Second St.—-this time the spirit’s ectoplasm appearing on the outside of the residence.
This MySpace page reports that the Lizzie Borden B&B is a new sponsor of the Rhode Island International Horror Film Festival. The festival will be giving away 10 four packs of tours to Lizzies house this October. Here’s a link to the main page for the festival which is being held in Providence, RI, October 5-8, 2006. Sounds like fun to me!
And then, lest we forget to mention it, there were a slew of “On This Day in History” notices regarding the murders on August 4th. Here are a few of the most interesting:
The Digital Hairshirt
This Day in MythStory
curmudgeonisms
The Symzonia Review
