Lizzie Borden Society Forum

Yesterday I read Kat's article on Luther's Corner in the Vol 4, No. 3 issue of The Hatchet. It was excellent. I knew nothing about Luther's Corner before, only a vague remembrance of its mention somewhere along our study of Lizzie. It answered all my questions. The history you gave could not have been more complete, and your writing of some of the items there was fascinating. It's now a must-see place my next trip to FR.
I hope you do go there again and write more on the things in there.

Did you take a photo of the little table you mentioned that was Lizzie's?

I also read "When Cotton was King". It was so good. So full of FR history and Borden/Durfee history. I like how Neilson Caplain puts Lizzie taking tours of FR. He will be greatly missed in the magazine. I never got to meet him, darn it, but wanted to.

Harry has a photo I think of part of the table. It was pretty crude. The chairs looked delicate to me, but not all the chairs legs matched the other chairs. Since Andrew had started as a cabinet maker I thought he might have changed the legs on one. Fixing something rather than throwing it out sounds like Andrew to me.

Yes Mr. Caplain will be missed. He would write me very nice notes after I had proof read and fact-checked his work. One of his Lizzie walks took me over 3 weeks to fact-check.
He was brilliant at that work- he sure had a following.
The last note I wrote him was a postcard that told him his Fall River History was the best one I had ever read- better than Fenner, Earl, or Phillips.
When I first met him, I kissed his hand. I'm glad I did- paid homage to the man- when I had the chance.

What a sweet story about Neilson Caplain, Kat. I'm glad you had the chance to work with him, know him, appreciate him. One of the greats, I think he was. Thank goodness he wrote about his knowledge, so people will always have it.

I think I saw a sign on one of the chairs in your article saying that one (maybe more?) had been "refinished". Geez, they looked pretty beat up as it was.

I'm reading the article on the ice house business now. I've always wanted to learn about that! So far, it's goooood.