The August issue of The Hatchet is Online

One of the many Lizzie hats I wear is as the editor and publisher of The Hatchet: Journal of Lizzie Borden Studies. Today marks the publication date of issue number 3 of 2006. The journal is an online magazine primarily and you can subscribe for a mere $20 a year. If you subscribe now, you […]

114 years ago today

From The Boston Globe, August 4, 1892: 114 years ago today Andrew Borden and his wife Abby were murdered by person or persons unknown in their own home. It was a Thursday. It was not as hot as writers have mythologized, with temperatures barely reaching 80 by noon. The horrible heat wave was over in […]