Lizzie Borden Birthday
Happy Birthday Lizzie Borden! Born on July 19th in 1860, you would have been 150 years old today.
Author / Stefani Koorey
Literary Hatchet #5 Published
The newest issue of the FREE online literary journal, The Literary Hatchet, is online for your reading pleasure. Please visit The Literary Hatchet to download your free copy today! In this issue, we offer you wonderful pieces by David Marshall James, Eugene Hosey, Elaine Barnard, Brenda Kern, Mark Sashine, Denise Noe, and Kathleen Carbone. We…
Lizzie Borden’s Former Home Off the Market?
The For Sale sign is gone now. It was removed from the front yard of Maplecroft as quietly as it was placed. The current owner was asking a whopping $885,000 for the place—a price well over market value, regardless of its historic significance. While I cannot say for certain the house was not sold, I…
Lizzie Borden Tantalizing Tidbit Posted
In addition to posting three dust jacket blurbs from the soon-to-be-published book Parallel Lives: A Social History of Lizzie A. Borden and Her Fall River, the curator of the Fall River Historical Society has added yet another Lizzie Borden tantalizing tidbit to their web page. This one is a true mystery. Who could she be?…
Lizzie’s Church For Sale
“The Bank” purchased the old Abbey Grill last year and has now put the structure up for sale. You can purchase it for almost $300,000 less than Maplecroft! Click on the image to see a larger version of it. I think, along with former City Counselor Steve Camara, that this would make a great disco!…
Got $885,000? You can own Lizzie Borden’s Maplecroft
The sign went up today. 306 French Street, the former home of Lizzie Borden and her sister Emma following Lizzie’s acquittal for the murder of her father and her stepmother in 1892, is once again for sale. Last August, the sale price was much lower. In the $600,000 range. Now it is a whopping $885,000….
Lizzie Borden’s Handwriting Analyzed
Today’s Fall River Herald News features an interesting piece about graphologist Janice Warren and her interpretation of Lizzie Borden’s character from analyzing her writing. In summarizing Borden, Warren said she was highly emotional, which could be masked by her staunch pride and perfectionism. Her lofty goals to live among the city’s high society on the…
Jack Beeson dead at 88
The great American opera composer Jack Beeson has died at the age of 88. This from the Eugene Opera Company blog: Beeson’s next opera, Lizzie Borden, again based on an American subject, was commissioned by the Ford Foundation for the New York City Opera. Lizzie Borden tells the familiar story with less emphasis on the…
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