Lizzie Borden Museum Lawsuit Update

On August 20, lawyers for Leonard Pickel and The True Story of Lizzie Borden Gift Shop and Museum filed a motion for extension of time to respond to verified complaint and pending motion. The extension requested was September 10. On August 21, Lawyers for the defendant, Lizzie Borden B&B, assented. The new date for a […]

Lizzie Borden Lawsuit Hits the air

Same story, different papers/venues. SouthCoast Today. Providence Journal. HuffingtonPost.com. And this from LaCrosse, Wisconsin: Brad’s Desk 8/22 August 22, 2008 by Brad Lizzie Borden Took An Ax…And Helped Our City’s Sales Tax THERE’S A FIGHT IN MASSACHUSETTS OVER WHO GETS TO CAPITALIZE ON A NOTORIOUS MURDER CASE. MORE THAN A CENTURY AFTER LIZZIE BORDEN’S PARENTS […]

AP changes story about Fall River

It is all over the press today. The AP story about the lawsuit between the Lizzie Borden B&B Museum and The True Story of Lizzie Borden in Salem. This time Fall River is “a gritty industrial community 80 miles south of Salem.” Gritty. I guess. Here is the story on Salon.com. Mass. businesses battle over […]

AP on the Lizzie Borden Lawsuit

Another example of the truth of old cliche “Don’t believe everything you read.” Today’s AP story. Unfortunately, the AP gets is wrong! The Lizzie Borden B&B/Museum is not suing over the Borden name, but the word MUSEUM. Hmmm. Maybe they get other stuff wrong too? . . . . . Mass. businesses battle over Lizzie […]

USA Today Today on Lizzie Borden Lawsuit

Read all about it! Mass. businesses battle over Lizzie Borden legacy. One thing of note in this retelling . . . . Fall River is described as “a hardscrabble fishing community 80 miles south of Salem.” Sounds quaint. But this is a new one! Repeat after me . . . hardscrabble fishing community . . […]

Leave Lizzie Borden Alone!

A Fall River man voices his opinions on the recent lawsuit against the new True Story of Lizzie Borden exhibit in Salem, MA, by the Lizzie Borden B&B/Museum in Fall River.

Lizzie Borden Live’s Schedule Announced

The new one-woman show, Lizzie Borden Live, written and starring Jill Dalton and directed by Jack McCullough, has a nice assortment of performances lined up around the nation. Perhaps they are coming to a theatre near you! Sunday Sept.7, 2008, 3:00 pm 78th Street Theatre Lab, 236 W. 78th St.,NYC,Between B’way & Amsterdam Sunday Oct. […]

New Lizzie Mini Unveiled

Filmmaker Richard Behrens has done it again . . . he has created another wonderful little film that focuses, this time, on an experiment that was done at the Lizzie Borden B&B/Museum in May where a group of case studiers tested the time that it would have taken Bridget to run from the Borden house […]

Fall River History Club

The Fall River History Club is holding its next monthly meeting on Wednesday, August 20, 2008 at 6:30PM at the Fall River Public Library. The public is encouraged to attend and join—there are no dues to become a member. This month’s speaker is Nick Niles who will give a talk on the Providence Tool Company. […]

Lizzie Borden’s Museum Expected to be Tacky, According to Arizona

In a letter to the editor of the Arizona Republic, a Chandler resident voices her opinion that a new museum devoted to true crime artifacts, like the Lindbergh killer’s electric chair, is in bad taste. She bases her views on being the “adult child of a convicted murderer.” She tries to make her point in […]

Hearing in Lizzie Borden B&B Lawsuit Set

A hearing on the motion for a Temporary Restraining Order for Preliminary Injunction in the case of Lizzie Borden Bed & Breakfast, LLC v. Pickel et al has been set for September 25 at 2PM in Courtroom 18 before Judge William G. Young.

All Things Considered and Lizzie Borden

August 14, 2008. NPR. All Things Considered. Lizzie Borden Museum Has Ax To Grind by Andrea Shea Listen Now [3 min 40 sec] An 1890 portrait of Lizzie Borden, two years before her parents were murdered. She was accused, and acquitted, of the crime. Enlarge Charles Krupa A 2001 shot of the Lizzie Borden bed-and-breakfast […]

New Images from Inside The True Story of Lizzie Borden

WBUR in Boston ran a story about Salem’s True Story of Lizzie Borden today. They provided a link to some great images on Flickr taken from inside the facility. Love the skulls! Love the grave monument. Looks fascinating to me!