Award winning Canadian playwright, Sharon Pollock, author of the best play on the Borden case, Blood Relations, is in dire straits. According to the Calgary Sun On May 27, a Canadian theatre icon awoke to a fire in her Calgary home. Although she managed to escape unharmed, playwright Sharon Pollock lost most of her possessions,…
Dr. Philip Silvia, the author of the seminal collected work of Fall River history as seen through its newspapers, is being honored with a lifetime faculty research award at his university, Bridgewater State College. Siliva edited the three volume set, which was published in different years: Victorian Vistas: Fall River, 1865-1885 as Viewed Through Its…
Lizzie Borden was born on July 19, 1860, and Fall River and the Lizzie Borden B&B is celebrating . . . It’s Lizzie’s birthday, and you’re invited By Deborah Allard Herald News Staff Reporter Fall River — Celebrate a little local infamy today with something sweet for Miss Lisbeth Borden. It’s her birthday. Lizzie Andrew…
UPDATE: The roof has been completed on the old Borden farm on Gardner’s Neck Road in Swansea, MA.
Morton Gould wrote the score for Agnes de Mille’s Fall River Legend ballet. He died in 1996. This biography details his impressive achievements.
I was watching a stupendous documentary from the series Investigative Reports on the A&E channel on cable the other day and learned a new fact. The show was a rerun of the 1998 film “Peace, Love, and Murder.” Review Summary This documentary, part of the Investigative Reports series from A&E, examines the story of hippie-turned-fugitive…
The Hatchet found a new Lizzie Borden image! Read all about it in this press release! The newest issue of The Hatchet is now online for your viewing pleasure. The Hatchet is in its fifth year of publication and this issue marks #21. As the magazine is now an official adult, there will be a…
On 16 October 1910, the Boston Daily Globe reported that City Marshal John Fleet had a high regard for Fall River. If you remember, John Fleet was Assistant City Marshal under Marshal Hilliard at the time of the Borden murders of 1892. According to Commonwealth of Massachusetts VS. Lizzie A. Borden; The Knowlton Papers, 1892-189…
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