Alice Russell’s House and How You Can Help

Here is a quick update regarding the Alice Russell house.

Alice Russell was Lizzie Borden’s friend. Alice was the first person Lizzie sent Bridget for after the doctor was not at home that fateful day in 1892. Alice stayed the night with Lizzie and Emma on August 4-5, and it was Alice who spoke out to the grand jury about Lizzie burning a dress a few days after the murders. It was Alice’s last minute testimony to the grand jury that prompted them to issue their indictments.

Now the Alice Russell house, the home she lived in for many years in her adulthood, is slated for demolition. Not for progress, but for a parking lot. The house is over 120 years old and dates from the 1880s.

Save Our Neighborhoods is meeting with SouthCoast Hospital group in early January to express our desire to see Charlton Hospital build their parking lots up instead of out, thereby avoiding the elimination of entire blocks of single and multiple family homes. The destruction of the neighborhoods is the prime focus of the meeting. It includes the Russell house because that house is on this block, slated for demolition.

Al Lima and I will be present at the meeting with SouthCoast’s VP of Marketing and Public Affairs. I will let you all know how it goes.

If any of you would like to submit letters of support in this regard, please mail them to me at : PearTree Press, P.O. Box 9585, Fall River, MA 02720. You can address the recipient in the letters as SouthCoast Health System.

Any help you can provide will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

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