It is fanciful, to be sure, with factual inaccuracies, but I really enjoyed the narration and the visuals, which are superior. I love the stamp idea. So all in all, an excellent video. And it just gets better and better as you watch it. Highly recommended.
It is titled “Tragedy in Fall River,” by Stephen Rumbaugh, Narration by Gillian Marsham Hill.
Juan Jose Campanella will be directing a film adaptation of the hit children’s fantasy series Heck, by Dale E. Basye, in which Lizzie Borden appears as a teacher. The plot of the book is thus:
The story follows a boy named Milton Fauster who, with his shoplifting sister, dies in a freak accident and ends up in an unearthly reform school called Heck, where Lizzie Borden teaches home economics and Richard Nixon is the ethics teacher. And this is a children’s book? Read on!
Whilst stuck in the boarding school, Milton meets Virgil, a boy who has a map of the Nine Circles of Heck, and the two escape the netherworld and its leader, the principal of darkness Bea “Elsa” Bubb.
This description comes from Random House: “When Milton and Marlo Fauster die in a marshmallow-bear explosion, they get sent straight to Heck, an otherworldly reform school. Milton can understand why his kleptomaniac sister is here, but Milton is—or was—a model citizen. Has a mistake been made? Not according to Bea “Elsa” Bubb, the Principal of Darkness. She doesn’t make mistakes. She personally sees to it that Heck—whether it be home ec class with Lizzie Borden, ethics with Richard Nixon, or gym with Blackbeard the pirate—is especially, well, heckish for the Fausters. Will Milton and Marlo find a way to escape? Or are they stuck here for all eternity, or until they turn eighteen, whichever comes first?”
Last year, the Warner Robins Little Theatre in Warner Rogers, GA, produced a new play about Lizzie Borden, titled “Murder Americana: The People vs. Lizzie Borden.”
From the images of the production, one can see an amazing set and wonderful costumes and lighting. The show “looks” wonderful. I hope it was well received and enjoyed packed houses!
Please read the history of the WRLT here.
Here is a synopsis of their show from their site:
They have post a large collection of images from their production at this link.
Ken Souza, the former editor of the Lizzie Borden Quarterly, explains Arnold Brown’s theory that the illegitimate son of Andrew Borden did the killings. As told in Brown’s Lizzie Borden the Truth, the Legend, the Final Chapter.
And then, there is this choice tidbit from Jules Ryckebusch about DNA. Hmmm. Never heard that one before!
The Fall River Spirit, a weekly addition to the Herald News, did a nice piece on the famous of Fall River, besides Lizzie Borden! It is a great collection of facts and presents the city and its contributions to culture, politics, sports, and cuisine in a wonderful light indeed.
From Roman Holiday. The voice of Audrey Hepburn.
The Fall 2009 issue of The Hatchet: A Journal of Lizzie Borden and Victorian Studies has FINALLY been placed ONLINE for your reading pleasure. If your web browser does not load the new page, don’t forget to hit your browser’s refresh button to make it seek out the new uploaded version of the web site. Thank you for your patience!
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A very interesting Flash Film by Pasarmiedo.com. The site is in Spanish, but the content and story are universal. (Japanese titles included!)
Quite worth the looksee!
Kim Dennis, psychic medium, will present a lecture titled “Lizzie Borden – Her Side of the Story” on Monday, October 19, at 6:30 pm, at Bristol Community College in Fall River, MA.
The event is free and sponsored by the Fall River Historical Society.
If Lizzie Borden could tell her story, what would it be? Canadian clairvoyant and medium Kim Dennis believes she was contacted by Lizzie who is ready to reveal the truth behind the Borden murders. Find out how Kim first became aquainted with Lizzie in her living room, and how she paired up with a journalist to document and accurately verify her “insider” information with a trip to Fall River in 2008 and a stay at the Lizzie Borden Bed and Breakfast. The revelation will astound you and the details may put to rest the theories and finally bring peace to the 117 year old mystery.
Here is Kim speaking about her gifts:
It was another full house last night as Cara Robertson presented her talk titled “What the Jury Heard: Evidence in the Trial of Lizzie Borden.”
It was extremely interesting and the points made by this amazing legal scholar and Lizzie Borden expert were profound. Unfortunately, there was no recording made of the talk as the material presented is part of her unpublished book, so if you were not there, you will not get to see it again.
The talk focused on two legal issues in the trial: the exclusion of Lizzie’s inquest testimony and the prussic acid testimony of Eli Bence and others. To me, the most interesting conclusions drawn by Cara concerned the way the gender of the defendant worked both in her favor and against her—how each side used her femininity to generalize and stereotype her according to their positions of her guilt or innocence.
It was standing room only once again!
Cara Robertson is an independent scholar and lawyer writing a book on the trial of Lizzie Borden. Educated at Harvard, Oxford, and Stanford, she served as a law clerk at the Supreme Court of the United States and as legal advisor to the UN War Crimes Tribunal in the Hague. Her writing has been published in The Boston Globe, The Raleigh News and Observer, and the Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities.
There will be NO lecture next Monday as that is Columbus Day, but in two weeks, on October 19, medium Kim Dennis will reveal what she has channeled concerning this case.
On Thursday, September 24, 2009, the Superior Court of Massachusetts, in commemoration of 150 years of existence, sponsored and produced a mock trial of Lizzie Borden in the very courtroom that she had been tried in 1893.
I was there and taped the show. Here is Lizzie Borden’s testimony. Played exquisitely by Lucy Bly.
Remember, Lizzie never testified at her own trial, so this appearance by her on the stand was a fictional moment.
For part two, visit YouTube HERE.
Tonight in New Bedford, in the very courthouse, the very court room that she was tried 116 years ago, Lizzie A. Borden was once again adjudged not guilty.
Testifying were Emma Borden, Dr. William A. Dolen, Bridget Sullivan, and (surprise!) Lizzie Borden herself.
This is Emma on the left, and Lizzie with her council and Reverend Jubb by her side.
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