HAPPY 147TH BIRTHDAY LIZZIE

bobarth · Post by **bobarth** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 1:22 pm

I wonder what she would want for her birthday.

ps I know I am a couple of days early, just did not want to miss it.

Tina-Kate · Post by **Tina-Kate** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 2:14 pm

Never ages a bit...

Tina-Kate · Post by **Tina-Kate** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 2:20 pm

Always look before you post---

We are EARLY!

I guess this officially starts Lizzie's Birthday Week Party...

Liz Crouthers · Post by **Liz Crouthers** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 4:22 pm

Aww Shucks She deserves alittie celebration in death that she never got in life.

bobarth · Post by **bobarth** » Wed Jul 18, 2007 1:45 pm

Does the B and B do anything special for her birthday? Wouldnt it be a blast to go and have ice cream and cake at the house. You suppose they had ice cream back then? I remember my moms old ice cream maker that had to be hand cranked, you suppose they had that back then?

I think I would buy Lizzie a new maple tree for her birthday. Yup Lizzie needs some trees.

Tina-Kate · Post by **Tina-Kate** » Wed Jul 18, 2007 2:16 pm

Yes! The Bordens did have ice cream.

Ice cream vendor Hyman Lubinsky testified for the defense at Lizzie's trial, saying he had seen a woman coming thru the Borden yard apparently on her way from the barn. He stated it wasn't Bridget, because he had sold her ice cream in the past.

bobarth · Post by **bobarth** » Wed Jul 18, 2007 4:17 pm

Oh Geesh forgot all about Lubinsky. I think Lizzie would have had 2 scoops of "Rocky Road"

Susan · Post by **Susan** » Wed Jul 18, 2007 9:11 pm

Don't know how much faith can be put in this, but, apparently when Lizzie was in the hospital for her gallbladder operation the nurses found that her favorite frozen treat was orange sherbert. I recall reading this on the Forum quite some time ago, but, the source?

Shelley · Post by **Shelley** » Wed Jul 18, 2007 11:06 pm

There's always a birthday cake on her birthday at the house and some cards on the mantel. We will probably wait until Saturday night this week for a little party when the house has a good crowd.

Liz Crouthers · Post by **Liz Crouthers** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 2:14 am

We;; I hope she has a good birthday in peace like she deserves.

theebmonique · Post by **theebmonique** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 2:42 am

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LIZBETH !...May you have peace and happiness always.

Tracy...

SteveS. · Post by **SteveS.** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 6:05 am

Happy Birthday Lizbeth!!!!! It's kind of neat sharing the same Birthday with you.

Shelley · Post by **Shelley** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 9:28 am

Best wishes to you both Steve! Tomorrow night - there will be cake and 2 candles at #92 She doesn't look a day over 145! :bigcrowd:

Shelley · Post by **Shelley** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 11:10 am

Looking over this date in history, a lot of bad things occured on July 19th, the following list below just some of them. In World War II this was a day for many skirmishes and battles including 1200+ 8th Air Force bombers bomb Germany and 500 15th Air Force-Liberators surrounding Munich.

Who else shares the birthday?

1834 Edgar Degas France, impressionist painter
1851 Hendrik J Jut Dutch murderer (head of Jut)
1865 Charles Horace Mayo surgeon/co-founder (Mayo Clinic)
1896 Archibald J Cronin England, author (Citadel, Shining Victory)
1937 George Hamilton IV NC, actor (Evel Knievel, Love at 1st Bite)
1938 Richard Jordan NYC, actor (Dune, Old Boyfriends, Interiors)
and Vikki Carr [Florencia Casillas], El Paso Tx, singer (Let it Be Him)
1947 Bernie Leadon Minneapolis, guitarist/vocalist (Eagles-Take it Easy)
and Brian May London, rock guitarist (Queen-We are the Champions)
1952 Alan Collins rock guitarist (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
and Dominic Muldowney composer
and Howard Donald Saunders Danbury Ct, murderer (FBI Most Wanted List)
1954 Kathleen Turner actress (Accidental Tourist, Jewel of Nile)
1962 Anthony Edwards Santa Barbara Calif, actor (It Takes Two, ER)

Things to Remember for July 19:
Baked Beans-Hot Dog-Ice Cream-Hitch Hiking Month
Flowers-water lily & larkspur Gem-ruby
Park & Recreation Month-National Picnic Month
2 Days Astrological sign: Cancer

Highlights in History Which Occur July 19:
64 Circus Maximus in Rome catches fire
1524 Boer war begins in Germany
1545 King Henry VIII's flagship Mary Rose sinks at Portsmouth; 73 die
1553 15-year-old Lady Jane Grey deposed as England's Queen after 9 days
1836 HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin reaches Ascension
1848 1st women's rights convention (Seneca Falls, NY)
1850 Airship Elizabeth leaves in storm for Fire Island, crashes (42 die)
1860 1st railroad reaches Kansas
1862 Forrest's 1st raid
1863 Battle of Buffington's Island, OH
1864 Battle of Winchester, VA (Stephenson's Depot
1870 France declares war on Prussia; Franco-Prussian war begins
1918 German armies retreat across Marne River in France (WW I)
1940 Hitler advises Great Britain to surrenders
1957 1st rocket with nuclear warhead fired, Yucca Flat, Nevada
1961 1st in-flight movie shown (TWA)
1965 Shooting begins on Star Trek 2nd pilot "Where No Man Has Gone Before"
1966 50 year old Frank Sinatra marries 21 year old Mia Farrow in Las Vegas
and France performs nuclear test at Fangataufa Island
and Gov James Rhodes declares state of emergency in Cleveland (race riot)
1967 1st air conditioned NYC subway car (R-38 on the F line)
and Race riots in Durham NC
and US launches Explorer 35 for lunar orbit (800/7400 km)
1969 Apollo 11 goes into Moon orbit
and Don Bowden becomes 1st American to break 4 minute mile (3m58s7)
and US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1977 Floods in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, kills 76
1990 BASF plant in Cincinnati explodes in flames, 1 dies
and Cincinnati Red Pete Rose is sentence to 5 months for tax evasion
1994 1st game ever cancelled at Seattle Kingdome (falling tiles)
and Bomb explosion in Alas Airlines at Colon Panama, 21 killed

SteveS. · Post by **SteveS.** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 11:58 am

Now you have a good excuse Shelley for eating 2 pieces of cake today. 1 for Lizzie and 1 for me.

darthvader · Post by **darthvader** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 2:33 pm

I betcha Lizzie would love an ipod. She could jam out in the barn while eating pears.

Tina-Kate · Post by **Tina-Kate** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 2:38 pm

That would be pear jam.

(Couldn't resist)

Bridget wouldn't have any.

Harry · Post by **Harry** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 4:53 pm

147 candles? Hope someone alerted the Fall River Fire Department.

Happy Birthday, Lizzie. Wherever you are.

Also, Happy Birthday, SteveS and dasdeeboot!

SteveS. · Post by **SteveS.** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 6:06 pm

Thank you Shelley and Harry. ok I'm off for my chinese food now. I wonder if Lizzie liked chinese food also?

snokkums · Post by **snokkums** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 6:32 pm

she might want a new axe for her birthday. Sorry, couldn't resist! Maybe a velvet red cake with vanilla icing.

stuartwsa · Post by **stuartwsa** » Fri Jul 20, 2007 12:16 am

I went to a performance by the New York City Ballet this evening. During intermission, the man in the next seat said to his wife "Today is Lizzie Borden's birthday!" I said to him, "how did you know?" he replied, "my watch gives me a list of unusual things that happened this day in history."
Turned out he was from Boston and used to drive through Fall River all the time. He said he had been by the Second Street house, but wasn't ready to stay in the bed and breakfast quite yet.
Happy birthday, SteveS.!

Fargo · Post by **Fargo** » Fri Jul 20, 2007 1:13 am

Happy Birthday Lizabeth.

You're right Steves. It would be kind of neat to have your Birthday on the same day as Lizzie's Birthday.

You have convinced me. I am going to change my Birthday so that it is on the same day as Lizzie's Birthday.

SteveS. · Post by **SteveS.** » Fri Jul 20, 2007 3:09 pm

I have always wanted to be able to sing that song to Lizzie in person. "you say its your birthday......da da da da da. Well it's my birthday too ya......da da da da da" I don't think she'd like her spotlight being stolen though.

But this is what actualy got me into the whole Lizzie Borden thing was when I found out we were both born in Fall River and had the same birthday. 98 years apart.

Shelley · Post by **Shelley** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 12:43 pm

You were remembered Steve! We had cake Friday night and another big chocolate cake with whipped cream frosting last night for the Mystery Writers group.. Lizzie received a big exotic bouquet of birds of paradise, ginger flower, dendrobia orchids and ty leaves all from Hawaii, from an admirer. Several sprays of orchids were taken to her grave on the 19th. The Happy Birthday song was sung with gusto and smiles all around.

Yesterday was a trip to Mee Sum for- CHOW MEIN!

SteveS. · Post by **SteveS.** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 3:02 pm

It's nice to be remembered on one's Birthday! Thanx Shelley. I hope you took a big bite out of that chow mein sandwich at Mee-Sums for me?

bobarth · Post by **bobarth** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 3:11 pm

Happy Belated Birthday SteveS and dasdeeboot.

SteveS. · Post by **SteveS.** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 4:00 pm

Thank you Bobarth! It was a good B day!

Angel · Post by **Angel** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 4:05 pm

Happy birthday, Steve

twinsrwe · Post by **twinsrwe** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 5:39 pm

Happy Belated Birthday, Steve. I am glad you had a good Birthday, as you deserve it.

For your enjoyment, click on the pic of the feather ink pen with ink well and see what happens.

Kat · Post by **Kat** » Tue Jul 24, 2007 1:46 am

Tina-Kate @ Tue Jul 17, 2007 2:14 pm wrote:Never ages a bit...

That is so cool Tina Kate- thank you for your art- it's a gift to us all!

Hope you had a HappyHappy Steve and Jay!
And Lizzie!

dasdeeboot · Post by **dasdeeboot** » Sat Dec 27, 2008 3:07 pm

my birthday is july 19th also :P

Kat · Post by **Kat** » Sat Dec 27, 2008 4:14 pm

Hi Jay! Yes you are celebrated as sharing the birthday here!
Long time gone, eh? How are things?