Borden Farm Gets a New Chapeau Update
UPDATE: The roof has been completed on the old Borden farm on Gardner’s Neck Road in Swansea, MA.
Borden Farm Gets a New Chapeau
These photos of the Borden farm on Gardner’s Neck Road in Swansea were taken today.
New Lizzie Book
Hatchet author Annette Holba, Ph.D. has a new book out titled Lizzie Borden Took an Axe, or Did She? A Rhetorical Inquiry. I am super excited by this publication! Here is what the amazon site has to say about the book: We’ve heard the rhyme: Lizzie Borden took an axe, And gave her mother forty […]
New Lizzie Borden Museum is Opening
This 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. […]
Proof Positive Lizzie Did It
Wouldn’t it be great if something like this actually existed?
The Preliminary Hearing in the Lizzie Borden Case
The Preliminary Hearing in the Lizzie Borden Case (PearTree Press, 2005), by Harry Widdows, Stefani Koorey, Ph.D., and Kat Koorey, is now available for sale through the Fall River Historical Society. You can purchase it when you visit or by phone at 508-679-1071. From the Foreword: The Preliminary Hearing phase of the Commonwealth vs. Lizzie […]
Paranormal Journeys Visits the Lizzie Borden House
Intrepid Reporter found this one for us. If the paranormal folks want us to buy into the haunted stuff, they better start getting their facts right! This one is pretty well overflowing with mistakes. Count them with me! I have a total of 10 in less than 10 minutes.
Monster Quest Visits Lizzie Borden House
For those without cable TV, here is the entire episode of Monster Quest when they visited the Lizzie Borden B&B, courtesy of ParanormRUs and YouTube.
This day in History Film Featuring Lizzie Borden
Maplecroft is For Sale (Again)
Maplecroft, 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 […]
This day in Lizzie Borden History
Lizzie Borden B&B Auction
The 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. […]
A Few Thoughts on Morton Gould
Morton 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
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! Link.
Lizzie Borden film
Oak Grove Cemetery Crime
And this in the same final resting place as Lizzie Borden. Woman robbed while visiting mother’s grave in Fall River FALL RIVER, Mass., – (WPRI) – A 53-year old woman is robbed at a Fall River cemetary, while visiting the gravesite of her mother, who had been buried the day before. The Oak Grove Cemetary […]
Lizzie Borden Dies, Her Trial Recalled
From The New York Times, June 3, 1927.