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.
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Sherry ChapmanA Portrait of Hosea Knowlton, District Attorney for the Prosecution in the Lizzie Borden Trial
Forty-six at the time of the Borden trial, Hosea Morrill Knowlton was born in Durham, Maine on May 20, 1847.
Denise NoeBridget’s Kitchen, February, 2006
Sherry Chapman assumes the identity of Bridget Sullivan and offers her favorite recipes for your eating and reading pleasure.
Edward Radin: Historical and Contemporary
If Radin accomplished but one thing, he demonstrated that the literal facts of the case did not necessarily nail Lizzie Borden as an axe murderer.
Eugene HoseyUnwomanly Weapons and the Women Who Wield Them, Part Two: The Papin Sisters
That day two little maids went wild without so much as giving notice, and gouged and clobbered their mistresses to death on the first landing of their home.
Mary Elizabeth NaugleThe Conspiracy with Hyman Lubinsky
Lizzie Borden claimed to have missed her father’s murder because she impulsively took a trip to the barn just before the time he was attacked and killed—a trip that happened to last as long as the attack.
News and Views that Wouldn’t Fit: Notes from the Compositor’s Bench, February, 2006
Doug Walters takes a whimsical look at modern day from the perspective of a Victorian.
Doug WaltersLooking for Emma
Emma Lenora Borden was born at 12 Ferry Street, Fall River, Massachusetts, on March 1, 1851.
Kat KooreyDear Abby, December/January, 2005
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.
