Lizzie Borden Society Forum

While reading another post "Rocky Point", I got to thinking. What a great day to commit a murder. I mean, most of the police force was out at the amusement park in Rhode Island having a picnic. The murderer would have had plenty of time to commit the act, clean up and whatever else they needed to do, even if they would have called the police. There weren't that many one duty, and the police would have had to call or go get back-ups. Let's face, the time was before all the modern marvels we have today. So I think that Lizzie had the perfect timing to clean up and do what she needed to do before the police came.

Also, big sister was away which would have complicated things.

Hi snokkums! I'm new on here, and have really enjoyed reading through your posts...very informative.

Did Lizzie know that the police were having an outing at Rocky Point that day? I apologize if this is a dumb question, or has been already answered somewhere else.

I grew up in Rhode Island, and many fond memories of going to Rocky Point as a child and into my early adulthood.

The shoreline was breathtaking, and yes, rocky! You could buy clamcakes and chowder and go sit on the rocks, eat the delicious food and feed the seagulls...there was also the "Shore Dinner Hall" which was a trip! Big long tables covered in white butcher paper...you sat with whomever was already there, and the waitresses (we didn't call them 'servers' back then) brought out big steaming pots of chowder, platters of hot buttered corn on the cob, bowls of clamcakes (wow, were these good...about the size of a golf ball, they were deep friend dough with chunks of fresh clam in them...crunchy on the outside, soft and chewy on the inside.) Giant pitchers of ice water and big plates of sliced watermelon were also served. When I was about 10 (in 1972) I think it cost $2.95 for all-you-can-eat.

The Windjammer Club: not sure when this was built, but it was sort of adjacent to the Shore Dinner Hall...I went to a couple of weddings there.

Finally, the amusement park itself...it was campy and cheap and I loved it. They always had a gypsy palm reader, a ferris wheel, the tunnel of love, and a haunted house of horrors, as well as all sort of games of chance.

One final memory: when the park was going to close, I went there one night with my cousin Bonnie...we were in our early 20's...they had a new ride there called the Free Fall. For some odd reason, right before the park closed, we were the only people left there, and the guy who operated the controls let us ride the Free Fall over and over and over. It as such fun!

I have an old poster from Rocky Point that's a map of where everything. Oh! One more memory, (hope I'm not boring everyone!) I was giving blood last year at the Red Cross, and one of the nurses and I were talking about Rocky Point in "the good old days." She remembers seeing Janis Joplin in concert there in 1967, 8, or 9, and she still had the ticket stub...for fifty cents to the concert!

I know I got a bit off topic, but thanks for letting me walk down memory lane...