Lizzie and Patriarchy
In “Either Way it Goes Down . . . America’s 54 Women on Death Row in the Context of Patriarchy,” DeAnna M. Horne examines “the experience of women in the criminal justice system” and concludes that “sex-role stereotyping prevails over context-specific reasoning” and that “the application of justice for women is skewed.” She uses the […]
Lizzie’s Turncoat Friend
The Fall River Historical Society has placed on its web site the Summer 2002 issue of The Fall River Historical Society Report. This one is a keeper, so download it now. It has the new image, just revealed in this issue, of Alice Russell as an old woman. You will love the candid of her […]
Lizzie Borden Ballet to Premiere
How cool. And not to late to get seats! Who wants to go with me? The Nashville Ballet announces its new season. NASHVILLE, TN – Nashville, TN – Nashville Ballet announces its 2006-2007 Season, featuring a world-premiere interpretation of the infamous legend of Lizzie Borden, a ballet with local singers/songwriters from Bluebird Cafe, the Nutcracker […]
Not guilty yet again
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 […]
Collecting Lizzie
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 […]
Newspapers and the Borden Case
From the New York Times, February 18, 1893:
Blood and Ink
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 […]
Bet you didn’t know this about Massachusetts
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 […]
Not imprisoned in haste
From the New York Times, August 16, 1892:
The Hatchet Hour
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 […]
Ryckebusch talk
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 […]
Happy Birthday Lizzie Borden
Lizzie Borden would have been 146 years old today, July 19.
Abby’s Ghost Still Makes the Beds
Well, I guess if you are just into ghosts, Kirsten’s blog on the haunting of 92 Second Street is something you might find interesting enough to read. If you are into the case, it won’t be a good experience. My favorite part is—well—all of it. Too funny! Here is a snippet: Abbey is sometimes seen […]
PMS Defense
From REPORT ON 2003 WORKSHOP ON GENDER ISSUES IN THE SCIENCES held June 11-13, 2003, at Colby College, Waterville, Maine. “Successful Strategies for Advancement” by Dr. Emily Toth, Robert Penn Warren Professor of English, Louisiana State University. I am not a scientist by background, though I have lived with a chemist for most of my […]
Morse Society
Did you know there was a Morse Society? And did you know that their coat of arms is an axe? And that they have a quarterly newsletter and offer a free sample? And did you know that they are having a reunion this year in October in Fall River? And that one of the attractions […]
With tears in his eyes
From the New York Times, August 20, 1892:
House of Hate, Art?
I never thought about the Samuels’ book Girl in the House of Hate as being a part of a series of lurid tales, but El Postino did on his blog Paranoia Strikes Deep. Wow, look at what he found! When you see them all in a row like that you really see the gratuitous and […]
Going, going, going
RRAuction.com is offering for sale a page from that financial book that has been on and off eBay for years. Here is a direct link to their sale, which closes, by chance, on Lizzie’s birthday, July 19, 2006. I think the seller is finally going to get what they have been wanting all these years […]