Friends of Oak Grove Cemetery Event
The Friends of Oak Grove Cemetery, where Lizzie Borden and family are buried, is sponsoring a talk titled “Oak Grove and the Rural Cemetery Movement in America” by noted Landscape Architect Martha Lyon. Saturday, March 28, 2009, at 6PM. Fall River Country Club 4232 North Main Street Fall River, MA 02722 Tickets are $10/free for […]
Abbey Grill Faces Foreclosure
This from the Feb. 19 20, 2009 edition of the Fall RIver Herald News: By Will Richmond Herald News Staff Reporter Posted Feb 19, 2009 @ 05:23 PM Fall River — The famed Abbey Grill appears to be in hot water as the bank holding its mortgage has announced the building at 100 Rock St. […]
Tiverton Public Library hosts Lizzie Borden talk
The Tiverton Public Library is hosting a talk on Lizzie Borden, next week, on Tuesday, February 24, 2009, at 7 p.m. “Lizzie Borden:The Mystery Continues Lecture Location: Tiverton Community Center, 346 Judson St., Tiverton, RI Presented by Tiverton Library Services and Sponsored by the Friends of the Tiverton Libraries. This presentation is a one hour […]
Huge Success for Ken Champlin and the Fall River History Club
The Fall River History Club’s guest speaker tonight was Fall River historian Ken Champlin. He gave a totally fascinating talk on his recent discoveries on the Fisk family and the underground railroad in the city. We had our largest audience to date: 50 folks, who came out to the library in a snowstorm to hear […]
Fall River History Club
The next meeting of the Fall River History Club will be Wednesday, February 18th at 6:30 in the Fall River Public Library. Ken Champlin will speak on recent research that he has conducted that sheds new light on the Underground Railroad in Fall River. It should be an excellent presentation. Related to that, the Massachusetts […]