UPDATE: The roof has been completed on the old Borden farm on Gardner’s Neck Road in Swansea, MA.
June, 2008
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Borden Farm Gets a New Chapeau Update
Friday, June 27th, 2008Borden Farm Gets a New Chapeau
Wednesday, June 25th, 2008New Lizzie Borden Museum is Opening
Monday, June 23rd, 2008This is not a joke. Today, while goofing around in Salem, MA, and having my photo taken at the new Elizabeth Montgomery statue at the corner of Washington and Essex Streets, I happened to saunter down a pedestrian shopping walkway. There, on the right, I saw her. Lizzie Borden! And here is what I saw.
I can’t wait to see what this is all about. But when does the summer start in New England? Inquiring minds need to know!



Proof Positive Lizzie Did It
Sunday, June 22nd, 2008Paranormal Journeys Visits the Lizzie Borden House
Sunday, June 22nd, 2008Monster Quest Visits Lizzie Borden House
Sunday, June 22nd, 2008Maplecroft is For Sale (Again)
Friday, June 20th, 2008Maplecroft, Lizzie Borden’s home following her acquittal for the double murder of her father and stepmother, is once again on the market. According to the current owner, Robert Dube, he is asking $680,000 for the 14 room, 4.5 bath home at 306 French Street.
The phone number on the photo below is from the last time he wanted to sell. If you are interested in purchasing this home, you can call the owner at 508-673-8088.
Lizzie Borden B&B Auction
Saturday, June 7th, 2008The Lizzie Borden B&B is once again holding an eBay auction for a stay in the Morse room (the room where Abby Borden was murdered) for August 4, 2008. The Fall River Herald recently ran a piece on the internet sale. The piece is by Deborah Allard.
Here is a link to the eBay sale. As of today, the highest bid was $275. With only four days to go.
Something had to mark the anniversary of Lizzie Borden’s death on June 1. She died at home at her Maplecroft mansion 81 years ago in 1927. She was 66.
The Lizzie Borden Bed & Breakfast decided it would put a night in its John Morse room up for bid on eBay. And, it’s not just any night; it is the night, and there is never a vacancy. The lucky bidder will spend the night of the gruesome murders in the room where Abby Borden was found face down in a pool of blood on Aug. 4, 1892.
Andrew was found downstairs, dead on the parlor sofa. His blood had seeped down to the basement.
Who would want to spend such a night, or any night, in the Borden house?Let the bidding begin.
“It’s sitting at $275,” said Lee Ann Wilber, house manager.
Last year, the room went to Don Sykes of Pennsylvania, who bid just under $1,000. Sykes, a Borden buff visited the B&B again just two weeks ago.
“Everyone waited (to bid) until the last day last year,” Wilber said. “The last half-hour, it went up $500.”
Wilber started the auction last year because she had so many calls from people wanting to book the room on the murder night, that she thought the fairest way of handling it was to give it to the highest bidder.
A Few Thoughts on Morton Gould
Saturday, June 7th, 2008Morton Gould wrote the score for Agnes de Mille’s Fall River Legend ballet. He died in 1996. This biography details his impressive achievements.
Fall River in Photos
Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
A lovely set of images from Fall River are on MBGRIGBY’s Flickr site. Watch them as a slide show and you will have a wonderful adventure!










































