Me
I am both the editor and the publisher of The Hatchet: A Journal of Lizzie Borden & Victorian America, the webmaster of The Lizzie Borden Virtual Museum and Library, and the administrator of The Lizzie Borden Society Forum.
I appeared, along with my sister Kat Koorey, as an expert on the Lizzie Borden case in the 2004 Discovery documentary Lizzie Borden Had An Axe. I also appeared in several independent Lizzie Borden documentaries as a Borden historian, including the recent, Lizbeth: A Victorian Nightmare by Fall River’s Ric Rebello.
In addition, I have been the invited speaker on the topic at these venues:
2009 “Myth-busting Lizzie Borden: Facts on the Life of an Enigmatic Woman”
Fall River Historical Society, Fall River, Massachusetts (Sept. 28, 2009)
2008 “Lizzie Borden Speaks”
Boston Public Library, Boston, Massachusetts (Oct. 30, 2008)
2008 “Lizzie Borden as Halloween Icon”
The True Story of Lizzie Borden Museum, Salem, MA (Oct. 29, 2008)
2007 “Lizzie Borden and the Internet”
Fall River Public Library, Fall River, Massachusetts
2006 “Lizzie Borden in Popular Culture”
Fall River Public Library, Fall River, Massachusetts
2005 “Show and Tell: The Documentary Life of Lizzie Borden”
Third Annual Fall River Lecture Series, Presented by the First Congregational Church and the Fall River Historical Society, Fall River, Massachusetts
2004 “Lizzie and the Theatre: Theatrical Representations of the Borden Case”
Second Annual Fall River Lecture Series, Presented by the First Congregational Church and the Fall River Historical Society, Fall River, Massachusetts
Interest in the history of the Borden case brought me to a love of the history of Fall River, her home town. Along with Al Lima, I am co-founder of the Fall River History Club. Most recently, I completed the index for the upcoming book Parallel Lives: A Social History of Lizzie A. Borden and Her Fall River, for the Fall River Historical Society.