Grow your own Christmas Tree Card with Lizzie Borden
Check this out. You can make your own growing Christmas tree card and send it to a friend. Here is my card, all about Lizzie Borden, of course. LINK.
Lizzie Borden and Life Magazine
A very recent publication contains a few pages about the Borden Murders: Life: The Most Notorious Crimes in American History: Fifty Fascinating Cases from the Files – in Pictures by the editors of Life Magazine. I am most excited by this book because it mentions The Hatchet: Journal of Lizzie Borden Studies in the text! […]
Curse of Lizzie Borden 2: Prom Night
Filmmaker Eric Swelstad has produced a sequel to the gross-out horror flick The Curse of Lizzie Borden, and it is due out on DVD in early 2008. Interesting that Lizzie has now become a horror icon. It was only a matter of time, I suppose. The first film was pure camp and worth the price […]
MHC no longer has link to Lizzie Borden murder trial
Today the Daily Hampshire Gazette ran a piece by Kristin Pepini about Mount Holyoke and the Borden case. You might remember that the August issue of The Hatchet: Journal of Lizzie Borden Studies included brand new research on where Emma Borden went during her “away years” in the 1860s. It turned out that Emma went […]
The Origins of Christmas Cards
According to B.K. Swartz, Jr. in his “The Origin of American Christmas Myth and Customs,” The salutation, “Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year,” may have first appeared in 17th century European correspondence. Says Swartz, “Merry is probably of English origin and was introduced to America in Dickens’ time.” In Clement Moore’s poem (l822) “A […]
Other Lizzie Borden Christmas Goodies
Speaking of gifting Lizzie Borden this holiday season, why not consider these neato presents: 1. Unabridged audiobook version of the A&E Biography on Lizzie Borden, available through iTunes at only 95 cents. 55 minutes in length. 2. Unabridged audiobook version of Edgar Lustgarten’s “Lizzie Borden Took an Axe: the Famous Trials Series,” available through iTunes […]
Lizzie Borden Episode on The Practice
On season two of the now defunct ABC TV show The Practice, they did an episode with the following storyline: “With help from Ally McBeal, the firm defends a murder suspect who claims she was Lizzie Borden in a past life. Ellenor learns the truth about Dr. Spivak.” That episode is now available for download […]
Lizzie Borden now a “Whacky Hotel”
AOhell recently listed some “whacky” places to stay and listed the Lizzie Borden B & B as a must see site. The image is really kewl!
Lizzie Borden and the Today Show
On October 31, the Today Show aired an interview between Natalie Morales and paranormal researcher Rebecca Muller regarding various and sundry supernatural subjects—voodoo, Amityville Horror, exorcisms, and of all things, Lizzie Borden. I am not sure what Ms. Muller’s bona fides are, but she gets the Amityville story a bit wrong since the entire haunting […]
Lizzie Borden’s Passport
Shelley Dziedzic made an amazing find recently—Lizzie Borden’s 1890 passport application! You can read all about her discovery in the New Research section of The Lizzie Borden Virtual Museum and Library. I guess this is the year for new finds. We now know where Emma Borden went to school for a year and a half […]
Mini Lizzie Film by Garden Bay Films
This film, one of many more to come by Garden Bay Films, is a tribute to Eli Bence. You may or may not know who Eli was, but you should. He almost caused the conviction of Lizzie Borden! Mr. Bence was the man who testified at the inquest and preliminary hearings that he saw Lizzie […]