My hometown paper ran a story on me today. It is all about the Lizzie image that Len Rebello and I found in Swansea. I thought I would share. . . . .
Today brought another slew of press, from being mentioned on CNN Headline news all day, to radio, to major newspapers across the region. The story will also appear in my hometown paper on Sunday. I have had interviews with the Boston Globe, the Fall River Daily Herald, the Orlando Sentinel, and WCVB-TV in Boston.
Check back during the day as I will be adding content to this same entry as it arrives.
WATCH THE VIDEO OF THE CHANNEL 5 WCVB-TV NEWS STORY HERE!
Well, it has happened! After all these years, Lizzie Borden has finally made the news again. The article that was printed on the front page of the Fall River Herald News today went national and it hit the AP. Below are several TV stations that have put the story on their news site.
Also, the Boston Globe will be running a piece about the discovery of the new Lizzie image tomorrow, and WCVB-TV (Boston) will air a piece about it tonight on the news.
The Fall River Herald News has published a story about the Lizzie Borden photo The Hatchet made recently.
The Hatchet found a new Lizzie Borden image! Read all about it in this press release!
The newest issue of The Hatchet is now online for your viewing pleasure. The Hatchet is in its fifth year of publication and this issue marks #21. As the magazine is now an official adult, there will be a party!
Subscriptions for the ONLINE journal are still only $20 for four issues! You can subscribe here.
In this issue: a fantastic piece on Emma’s 1913 interview by Borden scholar and author Leonard Rebello; a story detailing the finding of the Lizzie Borden photograph (PLUS OTHER SURPRISES FOUND) by Stefani Koorey, Ph.D. (that’s me); another great installment of “Lizzie Borden Girl Detective” by Richard Behrens; a personal tribute to the late Neilson Caplain by his son Ron; a story about Lizzie’s Grand Tour by Shelley Dziedzic; an interview with criminologist, Professor Thomas Mauriello; a sweet plea about Edwin Porter’s grave by Sherry Chapman; a list of all residents of Second Street in 1892 (a massive accomplishment) by Harry Widdows; biographical pieces by Kat Koorey; and our regulars—Mary Elizabeth Naugle, Sherry Chapman, Douglas Walters, Eugene Hosey, and Denise Noe bringing in their very best work!
We have made some changes to the journal, the most obvious of which is the name. Now we are known at The Hatchet: Lizzie Borden’s Journal of Murder, Mystery & Victorian History. We are broadening our niche and promise to bring you the same level of scholarship and entertainment you have been used to.
The print copy of The Hatchet will be available later in the week through LuLu.com. Check back here for details.
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Very early this morning it snowed in Fall River. Here is a lovely image of Maplecroft in the dusting that happened over night.
Thanks MB for the image!
On 16 October 1910, the Boston Daily Globe reported that City Marshal John Fleet had a high regard for Fall River.
If you remember, John Fleet was Assistant City Marshal under Marshal Hilliard at the time of the Borden murders of 1892. According to Commonwealth of Massachusetts VS. Lizzie A. Borden; The Knowlton Papers, 1892-189 3. Eds. Michael Martins and Dennis A. Binette. Fall River, MA: Fall River Historical Society, 1994, this is what we know of Fleet:
“FLEET, JOHN 1848 - 1916: born in Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, England, son of Richard and Charlotte (Brown) Fleet. He emigrated to the United States as a youth and was employed at the American Linen Company in Fall River, Massachusetts. He then enlisted as a landsman in the United States Navy in 1864, serving a seventeen-month term. Following the Civil War, he returned to Fall River where he worked at various trades and married Miss Lydia Wallace of that city. In 1877, he was appointed to the police department and rose through the ranks from patrolman to city marshall, retiring in 1915. He died one year later in Fall River. It was as assistant city marshal in 1892 that he was called upon to arrest Miss Lizzie A. Borden for the murders of her father and stepmother. His extensive testimony at the preliminary and final trials concerned the police search for evidence at the Borden residence, providing detailed information about the hatchets found there.”
Interesting find by Harry Widdows. Thanks!
I finally received my copy of the Fall River Historical Society Report for Fall 2007 and was pleased as punch to read that this year they are going to publish an important new book that centers on Lizzie Borden.
I may be behind on the news, but I still wanted to share the information they have provided regarding the publication.
Check this out! Filmmaker Richard Behrens has done it again—made a Lizzie Mini film and posted in on YouTube.com.
This one stars Shelley Dziedzic as Lizzie and offers us a truly great tour of the cellar at 92 Second Street by the author of Lizzie Borden Past & Present, Leonard Rebello.
The film is fabulous! It takes us back to the evening of August 4th, 1892, when Lizzie made two trips to the cellar, one with Alice Russell, and one alone.
