I love it when the Lizzie Borden case is used in school to help teach students about society, law, history or theatre. Here is another great example of teachers working hard to inspire their kids to learn about important concepts using cool subjects as context. From Summer 2004, The Austin News: Austin Preparatory School students…
From the May 2005 NASIG (North American Serials Interest Group) Newsletter (with photos!), Maggie Rioux, Systems Librarian for the MBLWHOI Library in Woods Hole, Mass., states, “I’ve been collecting Lizzie Bordeniana (is that a word?) since about 1981. When I first moved to Cape Cod in 1980 about the only thing I knew about Southeastern…
From the New York Times, February 18, 1893:
The Kent State University Press has graciously posted several excepts of a 2002 book titled Blood and Ink, by Albert Borowitz. Of note is a partial introduction to the work in which the Lizzie Borden case is mentioned. From the website for the book: Albert Borowitz provides a guide to “fact-based crime literature†focusing on…
This type of list is right up my alley. It includes all sorts of factoids about the state of Massachusetts, most of which I never heard before. Makes me want to visit there. Oh, wait, I am going to visit there—on August 9th, at 6:30PM, I will be doing a multi-media presentation on Lizzie Borden…
This sounds like one of the coolest teachers ever. It is perfectly amazing that in order to give the cast a better understanding of the Lizzie Borden case before they performed Ed Valentine’s new play (Lizzie: The Hatchet Hour), that production historian Tim Oliveira took them to Fall River and immersed them in the reality…
From the April 25-May 1, 2005, “For Your Information” newsletter, published weekly by the Bristol Community College of Communications: An evening with an old friend and Miss Lizzie Borden: Join the Taunton Literacy Council and Professor Emeritus Jules Ryckebusch for an evening of Lizzie Borden on May 16. The event is a fundraiser for the…
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