Lizzie Scholar Fights the Good Fight

I was on the front page of the Herald News today. I was wearing my Lizzie Borden Live! tee shirt, as I do when the show is about to play somewhere nearby (it is being performed Friday and Saturday nights in Fall River this week), and had my Lizzie Borden B&B ball cap on. It is my favorite hat. Great color and well made. I didn’t mean to be all decked out in Lizzie garb. I didn’t begin the day planning to be front page news.

I met with Herald News reporter Michael Holtzman and photographer Jack Foley at Father Travassos Park, in the Flint.

I had asked the mayor about the paving of part of the park at a public neighborhood town hall he had a few days ago, and found out that there was, perhaps, more to the story.

One of my passions, besides Lizzie Borden, is preservation. Fall River has a nasty habit of demolishing historic buildings, mills, schools, and structures—at the drop of a hat it seems.

So part of my life is spent speaking up for buildings that have no advocate, to protest the loss of green spaces, in this case the green space of a public park.

I post this here because it is about Fall River. Tangentially, it has a Lizzie twist. Thanks for reading.

For a full breakdown of this controversy, please visit Shamrock’s blog here.