Literary Hatchet #5 Available Today in Print Format
The print format of the latest Literary Hatchet (#5) is now available for sale! At only $8.50, this literary magazine is chocked-full of short stories, poetry, and art. You can download a copy for FREE at the website of the Literary Hatchet. You can purchase a print copy at this link!
New Lizzie Borden Book!
Hot off the PearTree Press! Lizzie Borden: Girl Detective by Richard Behrens Introducing Miss Lizzie Borden of Fall River, Massachusetts, a most excellent girl detective and the most remarkable young woman ever to take on the criminal underworld in late 19th century New England. Many years before her infamous arrest and trial for the murders […]
Fashion of the Gilded Age
From the Preservation Society of Newport County: “”Newport Undressed” Exhibit Opens at Rosecliff Get a close up look at Gilded Age fashion, from the women who spent massive sums on custom-made gowns, to the Paris couture houses that dressed them in such high style. This year’s costume exhibit at Rosecliff, Newport Undressed: Crafting the Gilded […]
Victoriana Magazine Returns
Victoriana Magazine, a free online journal of all things Victorian, has returned, and with a new lovely design. This came to me in an email, which prompted me to visit the new site. Victoriana Magazine Is Back! Victoriana Magazine has returned as a new daily blog magazine for Victorian style living featuring fashion and accessories, […]
Victorian Gifts
For anyone interested in Victorian clothing, gifts, cards, furniture, and jewelry: The Victorian Trading Company. The catalog is first rate and fun to peruse. It is available for you to download as well. They also offer free E-Greetings that you can send to your pals.
History Underfoot, Walking Tour of Oak Grove Cemetery
The Fall River Garden Club, the Fall River Historical Society, and the Little Theatre of Fall River, Inc., are presenting History Underfoot III, a walking tour of Oak Grove Cemetery. Guided tours of the grounds featuring characters who knew Lizzie Borden well. Sunday, October 4, 2009 (raindate October 11), 11 am to 3:30 pm. Advanced […]
Myth-Busting Lizzie Borden: Facts on the Life of an Enigmatic Woman
Stefani Koorey, Ph.D., Borden scholar, will be presenting a free lecture, titled “Myth Busting Lizzie Borden: Facts on the Life of an Enigmatic Woman” Presented by the Fall River Historical Society as part of their Lizzie A. Borden Lecture Series. Lizzie Borden still fascinates. She intrigues us mostly because, even after 117 years, we know […]
Lizzie Borden Live Big Success
Tonight’s performance of Lizzie Borden Live in Fall River, MA, at the Eagle Performing Arts Center, was a grand success. The audience sat in complete silence as they devoured every syllable of this remarkable play. They cheered as the play ended, many there tonight repeat attendees from the last run of the show in Fall […]
Lizzie Borden, We Barely Knew Thee!
Cowabunga! The new book about Lizzie Borden and her Fall River being written by the curatorial staff at the Fall River Historical Society is going to change everything! Everything we thought we knew about Miss Lizzie A. Borden, everything we have heard so far, read so far, seen so far, decided so far, is going […]
Green Street Update
Things are happening quickly at 132 Green Street in Fairhaven, MA, the former home of the Brownell’s where Emma Borden was visiting on that fateful day in 1892. Today the vinyl siding is nearly complete. In addition, note the plastic corner boards and window frames. The eaves are also made of plastic. While the house […]
Author of Victorian Vistas Honored
Dr. Philip Silvia, the author of the seminal collected work of Fall River history as seen through its newspapers, is being honored with a lifetime faculty research award at his university, Bridgewater State College. Siliva edited the three volume set, which was published in different years: Victorian Vistas: Fall River, 1865-1885 as Viewed Through Its […]
Fall River History Club
The second meeting of the Fall River History Club will be held at the Fall River Public Library on Wednesday, July 16, at 6:30 PM. The speaker will be Karla Moran who will be discussing childhood labor in Fall River during the height of the industrial revolution. The August 20th club meeting will feature Nick […]
Print Copies of The Hatchet are Now Available
After much proofing, the May/June issue (#22) of The Hatchet: Lizzie Borden’s Journal of Murder, Mystery & Victorian History is available for sale through LuLu.com. Subscribers to The Hatchet can purchase the print copy at a discount by logging into the membership area of The Hatchet. All others interested, please visit the PearTree Press LuLu […]
Lizzie Borden Case from 1894
This is a very early mention of the Lizzie Borden case (or the Borden Trial as it was known in the aftermath). It is from The Cyclopedic Review of Current History, Detroit, Mich., The Evening News Association [etc.] 1892-93; Buffalo, N.Y., Garretson, Cox & Co. This is from Vol. 3, published in 1894, and digitized […]
The Hatchet: Lizzie Borden’s Journal of Murder, Mystery & Victorian History
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 […]
New Lizzie Borden Book Due Out This Year
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 […]
The Origins of Christmas Cards
According to B.K. Swartz, Jr. in his “The Origin of American Christmas Myth and Customs,” The salutation, “Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year,” may have first appeared in 17th century European correspondence. Says Swartz, “Merry is probably of English origin and was introduced to America in Dickens’ time.” In Clement Moore’s poem (l822) “A […]
FR Herald News on Andrew Borden Portrait Find
I am happy to announce that today the Fall River Herald News has done a rather lengthy piece on The Hatchet’s discovery of the previously unknown Andrew Borden portrait (see below for other blog entries on this remarkable image). The story on how it was found can be read in this issue of The Hatchet. […]