Mondo Lizzie Borden

From the latest New England Historic Genealogical Society Newsletter:

NEHGS Irish Genealogy Tour

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Erin go Braugh!

Our great good friend and Literary Hatchet contributor, Ada Jill Schneider, will be offering a Valentines Day poetry reading.

You can read some of Ada’s poetry in the FREE issues of the Literary Hatchet. Check it out!

Happy new Year from MondoLizzie.com!

Mondo Lizzie Borden would like to wish all of you a joyous holiday season and a Merry Christmas.

Perhaps the walk signals in Fall River could be changed to this:

Our good friend and fellow Bordenite, William F. Schley-Ulrich passed away on September 27, 2009. He was 90 years, 7 months, and 3 days old.

Born in 1919, William was a regular contributor to the old Lizzie Borden Quarterly and penned a few major pieces for The Hatchet as well. Bill also was a regular on the Lizzie Borden Society Forum (421 Posts), and would often send me material in the mail on the Borden case. Before he passed away he wrote me and several close friends that he was soon to go and wished to say goodbye.

He was particularly interested in Nance O’Neil and did an extensive study of her films for The Hatchet. He also penned a great work on the books that we know to have been in Lizzie’s library, and what her reading habits must have been like based on these titles.

Bill had lost his lovely wife Marjorie a few years ago and mourned her passing each and every day. She was his angel. They were married for over 60 years and he kept referring to her as his “bride.”

Bill was a true gentleman and a scholar. He will be greatly missed.

This information was passed onto me by Sherry Chapman, one of the FriendsFour.

Here is Bill’s avatar from the Lizzie Borden Society Forum. I think I will always remember him as this Victorian St. Nicholas.

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Tonight was the annual Holiday Open House at the Fall River Historical Society. The event was very well attended, with every room filled with the most interesting people! The food was first rate, and the wine was delicious.

Here are a few images for those of you who couldn’t attend. Michael Martins and Dennis Binette outdid themselves with the Victorian Christmas decor. Lovely!

I lucked onto this site by Christopher Blake that features 360 degree views of cities all over the world.

Mr. Blake has created some fantastic images of Fall River places. I highly recommend them to you as they are truly incredible.

Here the links to his work on Fall River, Massachusetts. Click on the words below the photos and you will be amazed!

St. Marys of the Assumption

Fall River Library Hall

Santo Cristo Church

Fall River Library Entrance

Battleship Cove

Durfee High School

Braga Bridge from Shipwreck

St. Anne

Pirates Treasure Box Near the Braga Bridge

Narrows Gallery of Andrew Kusmin Exhibit

Narrows Exhibit Metalsmiths3

The Stage at the Narrows

Another View of Battleship Cove

Annie’s Artifax at the Narrows

Moonglow Expressions & Dream Weaver at the Narrows

Elin Noble Gallery at the Narrows

A very cool product exists called Fizzy Lizzy soda.

Of course, this has nothing to do with Lizzie Borden, but I like the idea of her being carbonated!

Here is their website.

Our good friend, Dr. Thomas Mauriello, one of the experts from the Discovery Channel’s documentary Lizzie Borden Had An Axe (2004), and consultant in Criminalistics at the University of Maryland, send this note to share with all of you.

Family, Friends and Colleagues,

I would like you all to know that I will be appearing on an episode of the Investigation Discovery (ID) Channel’s new show, FORENSICS: YOU DECIDE. The show will premier next Monday, 31 August at 10:00 PM. The show is about a homicide/arson case I investigated for the defense. I was asked to investigate and analyze all the forensic evidence presented at the criminal trial to show that our client did NOT commit the crime. You will be able to view the facts on both sides and then YOU DECIDE.

Enjoy, TOMM

From Discovery ID: An apartment in downtown Baltimore erupted into flames. Inside firefighters find makeup artist Marcus Rogers badly beaten and clinging to life. When investigators check the surveillance tapes they think they’ve got their man, but are their eyes lying?

Thomas P. Mauriello (right), and Tom Lange (left), from Lizzie Borden Had an Axe (2004)

At the Abbey Grille, the former Central Congregational Church, Lizzie Borden’s former church, in Fall River, Massachusetts.

I was on the front page of the Herald News today. I was wearing my Lizzie Borden Live! tee shirt, as I do when the show is about to play somewhere nearby (it is being performed Friday and Saturday nights in Fall River this week), and had my Lizzie Borden B&B ball cap on. It is my favorite hat. Great color and well made. I didn’t mean to be all decked out in Lizzie garb. I didn’t begin the day planning to be front page news.

I met with Herald News reporter Michael Holtzman and photographer Jack Foley at Father Travassos Park, in the Flint.

I had asked the mayor about the paving of part of the park at a public neighborhood town hall he had a few days ago, and found out that there was, perhaps, more to the story.

One of my passions, besides Lizzie Borden, is preservation. Fall River has a nasty habit of demolishing historic buildings, mills, schools, and structures—at the drop of a hat it seems.

So part of my life is spent speaking up for buildings that have no advocate, to protest the loss of green spaces, in this case the green space of a public park.

I post this here because it is about Fall River. Tangentially, it has a Lizzie twist. Thanks for reading.

For a full breakdown of this controversy, please visit Shamrock’s blog here.

Photo of Ada from her website

Award-winning poet and Literary Hatchet contributor, Ada Jill Schneider, has announced her September poetry series to be held every Wednesday at 2 pm at the Somerset Public Library.

“The Pleasure of Poetry”

Featured Guest Reader on September 30, will be Janice Miller Potter, author of Psalms in Time.

Participants are invited to bring a favorite poem or two to read aloud and share with the group.

Tea and cookies will be served.

For information call the Somerset Library
1464 County Street
(508) 646-2829

Visit Ada’s website.