Lizzie to be Retried
The Manitowoc Herald News of Manitowoc, Wisconsin, writes today that The University of Wisconsin–Manitowoc is inviting the community to participate as the jury in a theatrical retrial of Lizzie Borden on January 13, 2007, at the University Theatre. The trial will be a re-creation, using excerpts from original trial transcripts, as well as period costumes. […]
Doggerel Play
A site called Uncyclopedia has a cute section on nursery rhymes that for some reason includes the Lizzie Borden doggerel. Lyrics Lizzie Borden took an axe And gave her mother forty whacks. When she saw what she had done She gave her father forty-one. Origins This famous children’s rhyme was inspired by a girl’s alleged […]