Last summer as I was driving by the Borden farmhouse in Swansea, I noticed that the front door was open and a work van was parked in the yard. This is the farm that Andrew Borden once owned with his partner Almy, and the families shared the house for some time. Andrew eventually bought out…
The Literary Hatchet: Lizzie Borden’s Journal of Murder, Mystery & Victorian History is extending its submission deadline by two weeks. We pay authors! Please visit the Literary Hatchet website to download your free issues and read about what we want and do not want in the way of content. New deadline for submissions is May…
The Spring 2009 issue of The Hatchet: Lizzie Borden’s Journal of Murder, Mystery & Victorian History is now available for sale in both subscription (online pdf) and print. If you want to subscribe, for only $15 per year, to the Online edition, please visit The Hatchet. If you would like to purchase the print copy,…
A new telling of the Lizzie Borden story appeared today on the Rotten Works blog. The writer, RottenOne, gets the story somewhat right. The basic gist is there, and fairly well told, as far as the truth of the matter is concerned. However, like almost all writers on the case these days, and speakers for…
The next meeting of the Fall River History Club is on Wednesday, April 15, 2009, but NOT at the Fall River Public Library. Instead, the club will convene at Bristol Community College to hear a lecture presented by Philip T. Slivia, Phd.D., and Jay J. Lambert, J.D., as part of the series of Bristol County…
The most recent issue of The Hatchet: Lizzie Borden’s Journal of Murder, Mystery & Victorian History has a wonderful interview with wunderkind director Cameron Munson. Cameron is the director of the new short film about the Borden case, called Bordenia, which just wrapped up shooting in Lancaster, PA. And you are the very first to…
A blogger named Creepy Hallows claims to have channelled Lizzie Borden, after much effort. This is not a spoof site or does the writer present themselves as anything other than serious. This is an interesting read and worth looking at. While I do not subscribe to the idea that they did, in fact, contact Lizzie,…
According to Medium Georgia O’Connor, Lizzie Borden did not take an axe and give her mother 40 whacks. Nor her father 41. It was a known person to victim Andrew Borden, a man named Earl Matthews. She also says that Andrew was first hit in a doorway, then hit again (she says stabbed) on the…
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