Mondo Lizzie Borden

The print version of the August 2007 issue of The Hatchet: Journal of Lizzie Borden Studies is now available for sale through LuLu.com.

This issue is 120 pages in length, almost double our usual issue size. In addition, it presents new information regarding Emma Borden’s years at Wheaton Female Seminary (her lost years), including photos of the Seminary when she was there and her account book and grades!

We also are pleased to present fantastic pieces by Fall River historians Neilson Caplain, Bill Goncalo, and Michael Brimbau. There is a wonderful photographic essay on Luther’s Four Corners Museum and Lizzie’s chairs, a highly informative piece about crime in Fall River in 1892, and a thought provoking essay by Melissa Allen. Regular contributors Douglas Walters, Denise Noe, Eugene Hosey, and Sherry Chapman also grace our pages with remarkable contributions.

All in all a jam-packed issue sure to delight and satisfy!

Online subscription price is only $20 per year (4 issues a year). PLUS: Subscribers get a special discount on the print issue not offered to the general public.

If you are a subscriber, you can purchase the print copy through our print-on-demand partner, LuLu.com by logging into The Hatchet and purchasing through the subscriber area. That is the only link to the discounted print copies.

Non-subscribers can purchase color or B&W copies directly through the LuLu.com site.

Cheers,
Stefani Koorey
Editor and Publisher
The Hatchet: Journal of Lizzie Borden Studies

The Fall River Herald News ran a lovely piece today advertising my talk on Wednesday, August 15. Here is a copy. How kewl!

There was this in today’s SouthCoastToday.com:

‘Lizzie Borden in Cyberspace’: The Friends of the Fall River Public Library present Prof. Stefani Korrey of Valencia Community College, Orlando, Fla., 6:30 p.m. Aug. 15 in the meeting room of the Main Library. Free. Refreshments served. Paula C. Cullen, (508) 324-2700. 104 N. Main St., Fall River.

And in the Providence Journal as well!

At the library: The Friends of the Fall River Public Library will hold “Lizzie Borden in Cyberspace,” a program by Prof. Stefani Koorey, of Valencia Community College, Orlando, Fla., in Fall River Public Library’s main library meeting room, 104 North Main St., tomorrow at 6:30 p.m.

With all this great publicity, I am sure the meeting room will fill up. Come early and stay late!

See you all at the Library!

The August 2007 issue of The Hatchet: Journal of Lizzie Borden Studies has been placed ONLINE.

This issue is JAM packed with interesting articles—and I really mean jam packed! The new issue runs a whopping 120 pages!

And it includes news, information, and images not published elsewhere on the newly discovered Emma Borden’s years at Wheaton Seminary School. Lizzie Borden Society Forum member and Borden historian Shelley Dziedzic and I spent two days doing research at Wheaton and found some really wonderful things you won’t want to miss.

Plus we have some fabulous pieces on Fall River History by Neilson Caplain, Bill Goncalo, and Michael Brimbau. Other pieces are included by Borden historians and forum members— Kat Koorey, Harry Widdows, Sherry Chapman, Richard Behrens, Denise Noe, Douglas Walters, and Melissa Allen.

Not a subscriber? It only costs $20 for a year’s worth of issues of The Hatchet, and you have access to that entire year’s issues no matter when you subscribe during that calendar year. So if you join us today, you can download all previous issues of 2007 immediately. Remember, there is one more issue to go this year!

Sound interesting? You can read more details about the August issue and subscribe here.

Subscribers, you can download your copy immediately and/or view a slideshow of the magazine here.

Happy reading!

Stefani Koorey
Editor and Publisher
The Hatchet: Journal of Lizzie Borden Studies

Len Rebello, author of Lizzie Borden Past and Present, Borden historian Shelley Dziedzic and I went to Wheaton College today and conducted a lot of research on Emma Borden’s time there as a Seminary Student in the mid 1800s. The library staff was stupendous in finding all the info we could possibly need!

An extensive article on Wheaton and Emma’s time there is soon to be published in the next issue of The Hatchet: Journal of Lizzie Borden Studies. The Online journal will be full of brand new information, photos, and all sorts of amazing things about the quiet and lesser known Borden sister.

This is the second trip for me and Shelley to Wheaton, and we were honored to have Len Rebello join us to absorb all the new information.

The photo above is Len, Shelley and myself. Behind us is a painting of the lovely Caroline Cutler Plimpton Metcalf, Emma’s principal during her stay there, and probably her English grammar instructor as well. The painting is by William Page, an internationally respected artist and one of the leading exponents of figure painting among the American Romantics.

This is just a photo of me and Len Rebello. One great guy!

Yours truly will be speaking in Fall River at the Fall River Public Library on Wednesday, August 15, 2007, at 6:30 PM. I am the invited speaker of the Friends of the Library. The topic of my talk will be “Lizzie Borden in Cyberspace.”

The event is free and open to the public. Seating is limited and no reservations are accepted, so please mark your calendars now! The address is 104 North Main Street, Fall River, MA 02720. For directions please visit the Library’s site here.

For information on becoming a Friend of the Library, please visit the Friend’s site here.

The Hatchet: Journal of Lizzie Borden Studies is announcing a call for submissions of works of fiction, poetry, art and short stories for a special edition of the magazine to be published in April 2007.

Visit The Hatchet to read about our compensation rates, how to subscribe or order back copies of the journal.

Hot off the presses is this new and improved Lizzie Borden Doorhanger.

4-color double sided Lizzie Borden door hanger, perfect for any room in your house. There is a different message on each side. Side A reads: “Lizzie Borden’s Room Enter at your own risk!”; Side B reads: “Lizzie Borden: Please knock and axe me if you can enter!”

Die-cut opening for doorknob not shown but is on the final product.

Original artwork decorates this distinctive and unique item. Aqueous Semi-Gloss Coating on both sides .

You can order yours for only $3.95 each here.

We are ADDING a section to The Hatchet next issue tentatively titled “Word 4word” that will offer 200-300 word reviews of all media related to Lizzie, Victorian America, Fall River, and True Crime (yes, I am branching out). I will pay $5 per review but cannot send you the book or video to work with. I can, however, provide a list of books, magazine articles, and films that I would like to see reviewed soon. But I am totally open to items you might find along the way as well—-so just shoot the title by me for approval so we don’t have any duplication. The deadline for reviews will be the same as the deadlines above. Email me at hatchetonline (at) cfl.rr.com to submit reviews or request a list of things to write about.

The first issue of year FOUR of The Hatchet: Journal of Lizzie Borden Studies, is now online for your reading pleasure.

We have some excellent pieces in this issue: a wonderful work of research by William Schley-Ulrich, another great journey by Neilson Caplain, an informative and enjoyable piece about postcard collecting by Michael Brimbau, a fascinating look at the “Witch of Wall Street” Hetty Green by Richard Behrens, an essay about another famous hatchet wielding woman by Mary Elizabeth Naugle, and two pieces of original poetry–one by Meilissa Allen and the other by Sherry Chapman.

Plus, our 2nd Street regulars make appearances: Eugene Hosey, Douglas Walters, Denise Noe and Sherry Chapman.

I am sure all our authors and artists would appreciate any feedback you can offer them for their work.

Subscribers can access the online version and order the print edition (with a choice of B&W or color!) here.

Non subscribers can join for a mere $20 per year for all four issues at the same address above.

If you are a non-subscriber, and would like to buy either a hard copy or buy a download of the current issue, please visit my store at LuLu.com.

Enjoy!

The Hatchet: Journal of Lizzie Borden Studies is pleased to announce that in addition to the regular 4 issues per year run we will publish a special edition of The Hatchet mid April.

This will be a literary volume, containing only poetry, short stories, fiction, original art and illustration, and humor (all related to the Borden murders of 1892, Fall River, and Victorian America).

Submission deadline is March 1st. Please submit your work in Word format to peartreepress@cfl.rr.com.

Compensation rates can be seen here.

Subscribers to The Hatchet will be able to purchase the special issue at a substantial discount.

Cheers,
Stefani Koorey, Ph.D.
Editor/Publisher
The Hatchet: Journal of Lizzie Borden Studies

For the last year, I have had for sale through my CafePress Lizzie Borden sale site a set of US Postage stamps I designed for those interested in all things Lizzie. I thought them in good taste and got many compliments on them. They are in the style of Andy Warhol.

Today, CafePress wrote me a nice note. Here is the text:

Thank you for using CafePress.com! Unfortunately we have removed some of the products from your shop. Please be advised that Stamps.com does not allow images depicting notorious figures and/or criminals. Accordingly, your stamps section containing Lizzie Borden has been removed. Please feel free to visit the Stamps.com webpage to view the Terms and Conditions for further information.

If you have any quetsions or concerns, please let us know.

So Lizzie is officially designated by Stamps.com as a “notorious figure and/or criminal”—-Just thought you should make a note of that!

I put this on YouTube for your enjoyment. An oldie but goodie.

My silence of late has a very good reason behind it—I have been heavily involved in designing and publishing the latest issue of The Hatchet: Journal of Lizzie Borden Studies. The last issue of this year was released this morning!

Subscribers can access the online version and order the print edition (with a choice of B&W or color!) here.

Non subscribers can join for a mere $20 per year for all four issues at the same address above.

If you are a non-subscriber, and would like to buy either a hard copy (NOW IN FULL COLOR) or buy a download of the current issue, please visit my store at LuLu.com.

Enjoy!

November 2006 ISSUE CONTENTS:

FEATURES

The Case of the Purloined Curio by Richard Behrens
Newmarket Lights by Kat Koorey
Lizzie Borden’s South Main Street, 1896, Part II by Neilson Caplain
Bridget’s Bad Day by TK Rouse
Carrie Nation by Richard Behrens
Bridget’s Kitchen by Sherry Chapman
“Take Me For a Buggy Ride, Please” by Michael Brimbau
“Call Me Lizbeth” by William Schley-Ulrich

DEPARTMENTS

Dear Abby by Sherry Chapman
Denise Noe’s Lizzie Whittlings: Permutations of The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Cutting Room: Critical Notes on the Borden Legacy–Lizzie Borden and Sisterhood by Eugene Hosey
New & Views That Wouldn’t Fit the Compositor’s Bench by Douglas Walters
Forum/Outspoken
News

The front and back cover photos were taken by Michael Brimbau.

In two days I leave for Fall River and will be in town all week. I plan to attempt to live blog while I am there, posting interesting items and experiences as they happen. I will also upload images daily from the trip and attempt some video as well, if I can manage it.

The trip is planned around my speaking on Lizzie Borden in Popular Culture at the Fall River Public Library on Wednesday, August 9th, at 6:30PM. The library informs me that the meeting room only has seating for 75, so come early! Last year’s talk at the First Congregational Church (on Documentary Lizzie) had over 100 people attend. And boy, was it hot when they turned off the air conditioner because it was making too much noise. I don’t think anyone noticed how I melted that night. When it was over, I was drenched!

The library promises a cool environment and standing room will be available for those who arrive close to curtain.

The talk is a multi-media extravaganza! Clips, sound, images, and music, all with a dash of humor. I hope you can attend.

My blogging today and tomorrow will be minimal, but I will post both days.