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 Unfortunately, there was no recording made of the talk as the material presented is part of her unpublished book, so if you were not there, you will not get to see it again.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.
Yet another tantalizing tidbit from the Fall River Historical Society’s new book, soon to be published, titled Parallel Lives: A Social History of Lizzie A. Borden and Her Fall River.
This one is a stunner! Soon, very soon, we will be able to view, read, and consume a letter or letters from Lizzie’s incarceration in Taunton in 1893! Oh, what intimate thoughts and fears might be contained within those pages?
I can’t wait.
Lizzie Borden Turns Over in Her Grave
In the Monday, August 23, issue of the Fall River Herald News, a story will appear that states that the owners of the Lizzie Borden Bed & Breakfast have successfully trademarked the name Lizzie Borden as it relates to merchandise bearing her name.
SNIP: The trademark will cover items sold by the Lizzie Borden & Breakfast, such as key chains, mugs and clothing from being duplicated and sold in other venues. Woods said it will give customers confidence that products bearing the “Lizzie Borden” name were quality made and come from Fall River.
Woods said he couldn’t comment right now on how he might defend the trademark with local businesses, such as The Fall River Historical Society or others, who may be selling Lizzie Borden merchandise.
I guess I need to run out and trademark a couple of historical figures myself, before they are scooped up!
The show is, sadly, over. And the production crew is taking away the set, to be stored, briefly, until the next performance of Lizzie Borden Live in Providence, RI, at the end of October.
The event was a very nice success, with one interesting moment occurring when the fire alarm went off half-way through Saturday night’s performance. The alarm lasted but 60 seconds, and Jill Dalton, the consummate actress that she is, incorporated the interruption into the play . . . and while the Eagle’s owner, Jerry Donovan, was outside convincing the fire and police teams that had come to the rescue that all was well inside, the audience continued to be startled and amazed by this brilliant play.
Congratulations to everyone who made Lizzie Borden Live another great Fall River evening of entertainment.
The Fall River Historical Society has once again allowed us a small glimpse into the world of Lizzie Borden from their soon-to-be-published Parallel Lives: A Social History of Lizzie A. Borden and Her Fall River.
This one is a doozie! Not only do we see Miss Borden in all her jocularity, but we are given in insight that shatters some entrenched myths about this most enigmatic woman.
Lizzie had a soft side.
