True Story of Lizzie Borden in Salem to OPEN
The True Story of Lizzie Borden, located in Salem, MA, is set to open tomorrow, Saturday, August 23, 2008. The hours will be 11am to 7pm. Here are the directions to the exhibit. Here is a coupon to receive $2 off admission price.
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. […]
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 […]
Letter to the Editor RE Salem Lizzie v Fall River Lizzie
Today’s Salem News published a letter to the editor by a resident of Fall River. The author, of course, claims that Lizzie belongs in and to Fall River. Read about it here. And so it goes.
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!
NPR’s Morning Edition and Lizzie Borden
WBUR’S images from inside the Salem exhibit. Today’s Morning Edition on NPR did a story on the legal dispute between the Lizzie Borden B&B/Museum and Salem’s True Story of Lizzie Borden. The transcript follows the link to listen to the story. Listen here to the story. An Axe To Grind By Andrea Shea BOSTON, Mass. […]
Literary Hatchet Accepting Submissions
The second issue of The Literary Hatchet is accepting submissions for its October issue. We accept poetry, prose, short stories, and humor pieces on the following themes: true crime, Victoriana, Lizzie Borden, Fall River, murder, mystery, Victorian history, death, and gothic interests. Please submit your original, never before published, works to peartreepress (at) mac.com. Submissions […]
Lizzie Roundup
8-8-08 Wedding photos taken at the Lizzie Borden B&B/Museum. [A Woman and Her Blog] A new blog is online that details the workings and goings-on of Pear Essentials Productions, the group that puts on Lizzie Borden B&B recreations. Nice job! [PEP] Wanna know how much Andew’s 1892 inheritance is worth in today’s dollars? [Inflation Calculator] […]
TV News and Lizzie and Salem
Posted today on FOX 25 TV News site: Click here to see the video. By noticing the file footage they used, you can tell the camera crew did not go to Fall River to do the story. They are using very old shots of Maplecroft when it was a B&B (for about a day) and […]
Salem News and Lizzie Borden, Who Owns Her?
A new article posted on August 9, 2008, in the Salem News, on the lawsuit filed against The True Story of Lizzie Borden in Salem, Massachusetts, by the Lizzie Borden Bed & Breakfast/Museum. Lizzie Borden B&B wants Salem attraction to ax the name By Chris Cassidy STAFF WRITER SALEM — It hasn’t even opened yet, […]
Boston Herald and Lizzie Borden
Today’s Boston Herald.