Sherry Chapman assumes the identity of Bridget Sullivan and offers her favorite recipes for your eating and reading pleasure.
Archive - July 2018
Sherry Chapman
Michael BrimbauAngela Carter’s “Mise-en-scène for Parricide”: An American Gothic
Carter has a penetrating, intuitive grasp of the elements that make this legendary murder case so fascinating.
Eugene Hosey
Melissa AllenLight Fingered Lizzie and the Kleptomania Craze
Part of the Lizzie folklore is that she was a thief, possibly a kleptomaniac.
Mary Elizabeth NaugleNews and Views that Wouldn’t Fit: Notes from the Compositor’s Bench, April, 2006
Doug Walters takes a whimsical look at modern day from the perspective of a Victorian.
Doug WaltersJay Gould’s Yacht
It was written about Jay Gould (as about Andrew Borden) that he preferred to live simply and that he did not care to make any conspicuous display of his wealth.
Kat KooreyA Haven of Honey and Books: Book Collecting in the 1980s Fall River
In the mid 1990s, two precious gems, A Taste of Honey Bookstore and The Bookhaven, Fall River’s mainstay Antiquarian bookstores, closed their doors.
Lizzie Borden’s Main Street in 1896
After that pleasant excursion, Lizzie avoided appearances in public, fearful of attracting dreaded attention.
Neilson CaplainDear Abby, February/March, 2006
Dear Abby is a humorous series that purports that people wrote into the Fall River newspaper and Abby Borden responded with sage advice—well, sometimes.
