Today the Daily Hampshire Gazette ran a piece by Kristin Pepini about Mount Holyoke and the Borden case. You might remember that the August issue of The Hatchet: Journal of Lizzie Borden Studies included brand new research on where Emma Borden went during her “away years” in the 1860s. It turned out that Emma went…
This film, one of many more to come by Garden Bay Films, is a tribute to Eli Bence. You may or may not know who Eli was, but you should. He almost caused the conviction of Lizzie Borden! Mr. Bence was the man who testified at the inquest and preliminary hearings that he saw Lizzie…
My friend Neilson Caplain passed away yesterday. Neilson was a great man and a wonderful conversationalist. He was an author, historian, collector, preservationist, past President of the Fall River Historical Society, and a true gentleman. He wrote regularly for The Hatchet and loaned me many items related to the case and Fall River. He also…
In a recent thread on the Lizzie Borden Society Forum, FairhavenGuy reported that 132 Green Street, in Fairhaven, the house where Emma Borden was staying on August 4, 1892, when the murders took place in Fall River, has fallen further into disrepair and a notice had gone up outside stating that. Here are photos taken…
I have always been interested in reading true crime. I don’t know if this comes from being the child of reading parents who passed such books onto me when they were finished, or if it was because I come from the city where Ted Bundy was finally convicted. The trial was held in my town….
Lizzie is mentioned briefly in this BostonHerald.com news item that appears today about a Bewitched convention. Salem seems like the place to be this weekend. Kewl!
Alison Fraser created the role of Lizzie Borden in Christopher McGovern’s musical Lizzie Borden. She has a fabulous website that I know you will love. She has a section with some sound clips from the soundtrack, a slideshow gallery of her various roles which includes her Lizzie, and a very creative area with the Paper…
This just in from an “intrepid reporter”:(from page 13 of The Valchemist, Journal of the Connecticut Valley Section, American Chemical Society. Obituary William L. “Bill†Masterton passed away on June 19, 2005. He is survived by his wife Loris with whom he shared 52 years of marriage; two sons, Fred and Reynold “Peterâ€; and four…
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