Lizzie Borden Makes the News Continued
Today brought another slew of press, from being mentioned on CNN Headline news all day, to radio, to major newspapers across the region. The story will also appear in my hometown paper on Sunday. I have had interviews with the Boston Globe, the Fall River Daily Herald, the Orlando Sentinel, and WCVB-TV in Boston.
Lizzie Borden Makes the News
Check back during the day as I will be adding content to this same entry as it arrives. WATCH THE VIDEO OF THE CHANNEL 5 WCVB-TV NEWS STORY HERE! Well, it has happened! After all these years, Lizzie Borden has finally made the news again. The article that was printed on the front page of […]
Fall River Herald News and Lizzie Borden Photo
The Fall River Herald News has published a story about the Lizzie Borden photo The Hatchet made recently. Read all about it here!
The Hatchet: Lizzie Borden’s Journal of Murder, Mystery & Victorian History
The Hatchet found a new Lizzie Borden image! Read all about it in this press release! The newest issue of The Hatchet is now online for your viewing pleasure. The Hatchet is in its fifth year of publication and this issue marks #21. As the magazine is now an official adult, there will be a […]
Lizzie Borden Case in Billerica February 21st
The Lizzie Borden Case February 21st Christopher Daley, an educator/historian, presents a lecture that involves a one hour slide presentation in which photographs of all the people, places and events of the period are used to chronicle the famous double murder and the resulting trial. The progaram is in the Meeting Room of the Library […]
Lizzie Borden Nesting Dolls
This is a great idea! Nice photos on the rest of her site as well. CraftyQuahog on Flikr. Link.
Little Lizzie Borden
I love folk art and original works that involve Lizzie Borden. I have some interesting things in my collection that I have found over the years. Here is one I wish I was on hand to buy when it was on sale: a hand made doll called “Tiny Lizzie Borden” by Devout Dolls. Cute isn’t […]
Lizzie Borden Valentine’s Day Bouquet
Right now on eBay is for sale a Lizzie Borden Goth Bouquet of black silk roses spattered in blood. For that bloody valentine in your life. Lizzie Borden Goth Bouquet “Lizzie Borden took an ax and gave her father 40 whacks”…..sounds like fun to me…anyway, here is the perfect bouquet for any morbid occasion. 7 […]
Watercolor of Lizzie Borden for Sale
Well . . . that got your attention, didn’t it? It got mine! When I went to the auction site, I found, to my dismay, that this image is not Lizzie Borden at all. At least not the Fall River woman who this blog is named for. Not the accused hatchet murderess. Not this lady. […]
Lizzie Borden Soil
You can now own genuine sand from the Lizzie Borden B&B, or so they say, in addition to practically any other place you can think of, all preserved in a keychain or magnet. FootWhere Link. Wholesale only.
Lizzie Borden Prayer Card
I’m not kidding. Found this on the web, of course, at this site: Pre-emptive Prayer Cards. Lizzie Borden: The Patron Saint of Dysfunctional Families.
Lizzie Borden Hooked Rug
Found this on my out and abouts. I like it a lot. Folk art looking image on a rug. Someone make me one! Only $200. From O’Lantern, Longshadow, and McCobb, Ltd. Lizzie Borden Hooked Rug The mildest, sweetest-looking silver-haired lady in gold-rimmed bifocals is sitting quietly at a booth at a smallish craft fair in […]
Lizzie Borden Sends Flowers
From the January 24, 1893 issue of the Boston Globe.
Lizzie Borden’s Maplecroft in the Snow
Very early this morning it snowed in Fall River. Here is a lovely image of Maplecroft in the dusting that happened over night. Thanks MB for the image!
City Marshal John Fleet Calls Fall River a ‘Moral City’
On 16 October 1910, the Boston Daily Globe reported that City Marshal John Fleet had a high regard for Fall River. If you remember, John Fleet was Assistant City Marshal under Marshal Hilliard at the time of the Borden murders of 1892. According to Commonwealth of Massachusetts VS. Lizzie A. Borden; The Knowlton Papers, 1892-189 […]
New Lizzie Borden Book Due Out This Year
I finally received my copy of the Fall River Historical Society Report for Fall 2007 and was pleased as punch to read that this year they are going to publish an important new book that centers on Lizzie Borden. I may be behind on the news, but I still wanted to share the information they […]
Lizzie Borden Live
Lizzie Borden Live is a one-woman play, written and performed by Jill Dalton, and directed by Fall River’s Jack McCullough. You can read more about the play and Jack and Jill in the November 2007 issue of The Hatchet: Journal of Lizzie Borden Studies and on a recent entry on MondoLizzie. I invite you now […]
Lizzie Borden Errors of Fact
Every so often I read an article or news story that makes me shake my head and grumble. I kvetch when an author makes inaccurate statements regarding the Borden murders of 1892. Not the small details, which most are prone to do, because unless you really study this case you might miss those tiny facts. […]