Garrison Keillor’s The Writer’s Almanac has a lovely piece on Lizzie Borden commemorating the date of her acquittal.
There are more than a few errors of fact but it is nice that he devoted the space to the story. Something I had not read or heard before is the last line of his entry: “The nursery rhyme about her appears in an English textbook for Japanese students, where it is credited to Mother Goose.” However, I wouldn’t count on it as being the truth until it also appeared in a more reputable source or I found it myself.
And that’s the trouble with Lizzie Borden stories on the Internet. You never know where they get this stuff!
