New Lizzie Borden Play Premieres in Fall River
“The Durfee Theatre Company is presenting the original play, NEMESIS: A TALE OF DISCOVERY AND MURDER for their entry into the 2009 Massachusetts High School Drama Guild Competition throughout the month of March NEMESIS investigates other possibilities surrounding the murders in the infamous Lizzie Borden case. 51 student cast and crew members have been in […]
Fall River History Club Meets this Wednesday
History Club meeting Wednesday, March 18, 2009, 6:30 pm Fall River Public Library Topic: Globe Street Railway in Fall River Presenter: George Petrin See you there!
Brides and Muttoneaters
With the foreclosure of the Abbey Grille, lots of people and groups who had plans to hold events in the Great Hall or the restaurant are finding themselves up a creek without a paddle, or without their deposits returned. Take the case of this Fairhaven woman. She is getting married in a few months and […]
Lizzie Borden Paranormal Lecture Announced
Our good friend and Hatchet contributor Al Rauber is giving a lecture on May 31, 2009 in NYC at the Polaris North Theatre. You can read all about it here! Al is very well respected in the paranormal community and has had a long and distinguished career in studying and recording electronic voice phenomenon. From […]
The Hatchet and the New Year
2009 has brought with it many changes, and The Hatchet: Journal of Lizzie Borden Studies is one of them! We are whacking the price and publishing schedule to accommodate the changing lives of our authors, artists, editors, and all those who give of their time and love to make this journal the great publication that […]
Save the Abbey Meeting
A meeting will be held on Wednesday, March 4, 2009, that will address the future of the Abbey Grille building. This is from City Councillor Steve Camara: “I invite any of you who may be interested in the future of 100 Rock Street, The International Culinary Institute, to come to a Lower Highlands/Historic Downtown Neighborhood […]
Lizzie Borden Live in March in Providence
Mark your calendars! This is an event NOT to be missed. I highly recommend this outstanding play, written and acted by the great Jill Dalton, directed by the amazing Jack McCullough, with lighting designed by the fabulous John Boomer. LIZZIE BORDEN LIVE ! BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND !! IN PROVIDENCE, RI Friday the 13th thru […]
This Day in History at History Channel Gets it All Wrong
So my friend, Al Rauber, found this article that mentions the Lizzie Borden case. It is called This Day in History. One can select a day and a movie or story pops up telling the story of the day through history. Neat, huh? And you would think that because it is the History Channel, that […]
Friends of Oak Grove Cemetery Event
The Friends of Oak Grove Cemetery, where Lizzie Borden and family are buried, is sponsoring a talk titled “Oak Grove and the Rural Cemetery Movement in America” by noted Landscape Architect Martha Lyon. Saturday, March 28, 2009, at 6PM. Fall River Country Club 4232 North Main Street Fall River, MA 02722 Tickets are $10/free for […]
Abbey Grill Faces Foreclosure
This from the Feb. 19 20, 2009 edition of the Fall RIver Herald News: By Will Richmond Herald News Staff Reporter Posted Feb 19, 2009 @ 05:23 PM Fall River — The famed Abbey Grill appears to be in hot water as the bank holding its mortgage has announced the building at 100 Rock St. […]
Tiverton Public Library hosts Lizzie Borden talk
The Tiverton Public Library is hosting a talk on Lizzie Borden, next week, on Tuesday, February 24, 2009, at 7 p.m. “Lizzie Borden:The Mystery Continues Lecture Location: Tiverton Community Center, 346 Judson St., Tiverton, RI Presented by Tiverton Library Services and Sponsored by the Friends of the Tiverton Libraries. This presentation is a one hour […]
Huge Success for Ken Champlin and the Fall River History Club
The Fall River History Club’s guest speaker tonight was Fall River historian Ken Champlin. He gave a totally fascinating talk on his recent discoveries on the Fisk family and the underground railroad in the city. We had our largest audience to date: 50 folks, who came out to the library in a snowstorm to hear […]
Fall River History Club
The next meeting of the Fall River History Club will be Wednesday, February 18th at 6:30 in the Fall River Public Library. Ken Champlin will speak on recent research that he has conducted that sheds new light on the Underground Railroad in Fall River. It should be an excellent presentation. Related to that, the Massachusetts […]
Dayle Schear, Psychic, on Lizzie Borden
From the Honolulu Weekly, 21 January 2009. DAYLE SCHEAR / Internationally-acclaimed psychic Dayle Schear is credited with solving numerous criminal cases including murders, missing persons and stolen property. Her resumé includes working with the U.S. government to hone her psychic abilities, authoring a book and multiple television appearances. She’s wowed audiences in Hawai‘i and around […]
1000 Valentines for the Troops
UPDATE: George Delaney posted his photographs of the event on Flikr. Don’t miss it! The event held today in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service was a huge success! 1000 Valentines for the Troops was organized to create valentines and banners to send to the men and women serving in Iraq […]
Fall River: Valentines for the Troops
UPDATE: The event is now listed with the Providence Journal. UPDATE 2: the event has been covered on a fuller basis in the Providence Journal! 1000 VALENTINES FOR THE TROOPS Sign Up to Volunteer or Attend here! FALL RIVER, Massachusetts—Save Our Neighborhoods, the City of Fall River, B.O.L.D., and Arts United has teamed together to […]
The Preliminary Hearing in the Lizzie Borden Case
The Preliminary Hearing phase of the Commonwealth vs. Lizzie A. Borden began on August 25 and lasted until September 1, 1892. The copy given to Lizzie’s lawyer, Andrew Jennings, is the only one known to have survived. It has recently been discovered that this copy is, in fact, both incomplete and inaccurate, having been altered […]
Fall River History Club Makes the News!
Fall River Herald News columnist Marc Dion has penned a lovely piece about the new Fall River History Club. It appears on the paper on Monday, January 12th. It is a must read! Of course, Lizzie Borden is mentioned. It is Fall River history! And yes, I am in it too. Read the full text […]