Fall River Historical Society Holiday Open House
Tonight was the annual Holiday Open House at the Fall River Historical Society. The event was very well attended, with every room filled with the most interesting people! The food was first rate, and the wine was delicious. Here are a few images for those of you who couldn’t attend. Michael Martins and Dennis Binette […]
Fall River History Club in the Herald News
We had a truly wonderful meeting of the Fall River History Club on Wednesday night. Without a lecturer scheduled (the holidays are neigh after all), the idea was hatched to ask members to bring in anecdotes of growing up in and around Fall River and/or select a few artifacts from their collection to share. We […]
Lizzie Borden Acquitted Again
UPDATE: here is an even longer and better story about the latest mock trial in Taunton. The third and final mock trial, LIzzie Borden Redux, has ended with the jury again finding for the defendant. Lizzie Borden was set free once again. These retrials were quite interesting. I attended all of them and they were […]
Google Street View Does Fall River
I have been waiting for this. For a year or more, Google maps had one road on their street view of Fall River: President Avenue. Well, now they have mapped out a lot of the city (leaving out a great deal too, I might add). You can travel down Fall River’s streets and see the […]
Lizzie Borden Overload
There have been so many events in the past few months centering on Lizzie Borden that I have been hearing folks say that they are in Lizzie Borden overload. Lectures, trial reenactments, plays . . . . and they are not yet over. On November 19, the last trial reenactment will be held in Taunton. […]
Halloween with Lizzie Borden Live!
WATCH JILL AS LIZZIE ON THE THE RHODE SHOW! LIZZIE BORDEN LIVE !!! THE LEGEND COMES TO LIFE Written & Performed by: Jill Dalton Directed by: Jack McCullough Music by: Larry Hochman Lighting Design by: John P. Boomer HALLOWEEN NIGHT ALL HALLOWS’ EVE CELEBRATION Saturday, October 31, 2009 8:00 pm Doors open @ 7:00 pm […]
Lizzie Borden Lecture, Monday, October 26
Jill Dalton, award-winning actress, presents: Lizzie Borden Live: From the Page to the Stage Bristol Community College, Fall River, MA Monday, October 26, 2009 6:30 PM Lecture is free and sponsored by the Fall River Historical Society as part of their Lizzie A. Borden lecture series. Jill Dalton’s Lizzie Borden Live combines historical facts with […]
Lizzie Borden from Monsterquest
A short clip from the Monsterquest investigation of the Lizzie Borden B&B. MonsterquestLB
Lizzie Borden BIO
Lizzie Borden at Gallery X
Short piece on Fox Providence on the opening of the Lizzie Borden exhibit, A Tale of Two Cities, held at Gallery X in New Bedford, MA. This appeared on TV October 15, 2009.
Lizzie Borden and Other Scary Children’s Rhymes
A very interesting Flash Film by Pasarmiedo.com. The site is in Spanish, but the content and story are universal. (Japanese titles included!) Quite worth the looksee!
Take the Lizzie Borden Quiz
Investigation Discovery has posted this Lizzie Borden quiz. Nine little questions. What did you score?
Fall River’s Amazing Panoramas by Christopher Blake
I lucked onto this site by Christopher Blake that features 360 degree views of cities all over the world. Mr. Blake has created some fantastic images of Fall River places. I highly recommend them to you as they are truly incredible. Here the links to his work on Fall River, Massachusetts. Click on the words […]
Fall River Mock Trial Finds Lizzie Innocent
Once again, Lizzie Borden has been found innocent in the murders of her father and step-mother in 1892. The crowd who attended last night’s mock trial, presented in commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the Superior Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, voted almost 2-1 to acquit her of all charges. This trial was different […]
Kim Dennis, psychic medium, says Lizzie said she did it
Last night I attended the fifth Lizzie Borden lecture, sponsored by the Fall River Historical Society, held at Bristol Community College. It was a talk by Kim Dennis, Canadian clairvoyant/medium, who said that Lizzie Borden came to her during a session she had at her home in Calgary with a woman named Lizzie. After the […]
Lizzie Borden Lecture October 19: Kim Dennis, psychic medium
Kim Dennis, psychic medium, will present a lecture titled “Lizzie Borden – Her Side of the Story” on Monday, October 19, at 6:30 pm, at Bristol Community College in Fall River, MA. The event is free and sponsored by the Fall River Historical Society. If Lizzie Borden could tell her story, what would it be? […]
Lizzie Gets Another Day in Court
Read it here in the Herald News. The photographs in this article in the Herald News were taken by me at the last mock trial in New Bedford in September.
Lizzie Borden on Capital Hill
Yesterday, during the debate over the Baucus health care bill in the Senate Finance Committee, Lizzie Borden was mentioned! Wielding an Ax | 1:30 p.m. Senator Roberts, a Kansas Republican, drills into the cost projections with Mr. Elmendorf and seems annoyed. He says the plan appears to take a “Lizzie Borden ax†to lop off […]