Lizzie Borden Comes to Salem
The True Story of Lizzie Borden is set to open in Salem, MA, on August 4. An article on the museum appeared today in the Salem News. Leonard Pickel, who calls himself curator of the new Lizzie Borden museum on Essex Street, holds replicas of the skulls of Abby and Andrew Borden. The museum, which […]
Villisca Blog
This just popped onto my radar screen and I wanted to pass the link onto you. It looks most interesting and professionally done. It has been online for a year and yet I never knew of it before. Perhaps you will now be more informed about this fascinating case as I plan to be from […]
Sharon Pollock, Author of Blood Relations
Award winning Canadian playwright, Sharon Pollock, author of the best play on the Borden case, Blood Relations, is in dire straits. According to the Calgary Sun On May 27, a Canadian theatre icon awoke to a fire in her Calgary home. Although she managed to escape unharmed, playwright Sharon Pollock lost most of her possessions, […]
Author of Victorian Vistas Honored
Dr. Philip Silvia, the author of the seminal collected work of Fall River history as seen through its newspapers, is being honored with a lifetime faculty research award at his university, Bridgewater State College. Siliva edited the three volume set, which was published in different years: Victorian Vistas: Fall River, 1865-1885 as Viewed Through Its […]
Lizzie Borden B&B on Paranormal Radio
Lee-ann Wilber, co-owner of the Lizzie Borden B&B, will be the guest of Haunted Times Magazine Paranormal Radio on July 23, 2008 at 9PM. The show is available by live stream at this address. You can live chat and call in at (347) 215-8499. Lee-Ann Wilber, owner of the Lizzie Borden Bed and Breakfast which […]
American Road Magazine and Lizzie Borden
This season’s issue of American Road Magazine contains a two page spread on the Lizzie Borden case, featuring yours truly and the Lizzie Borden B&B. Luckily, the spread is being given away as a free pdf. You can view it here!
Lizzie Roundup
According to flimmaker David Bettencourt, there are many in the Fall River area who think of themselves as Lizzie Borden historians. [Blog on the Half Shell] 82% think Lizzie guilty in recent poll. [Clews] MonsterQuest’s show about ghosts at the Lizzie Borden B&B a “big, fat nothing.” [Cryptomundo] People who study unsolved crimes are “morbid”. […]
Paranormal Radio and Lizzie Borden
The Paranormal Investigators of Southern Arizona are hosting an hour long radio show focusing on Richard Senate’s new book on Lizzie Borden. Entitled Shocking Psychic Solution: The Lizzie Borden Case, the book offers a “psychic solution to the Lizzie Borden case.” Mark your calendars. The show will air on July 10 at 12:30 AM (that […]
New Lizzie Book
Hatchet author Annette Holba, Ph.D. has a new book out titled Lizzie Borden Took an Axe, or Did She? A Rhetorical Inquiry. I am super excited by this publication! Here is what the amazon site has to say about the book: We’ve heard the rhyme: Lizzie Borden took an axe, And gave her mother forty […]
The Preliminary Hearing in the Lizzie Borden Case
The Preliminary Hearing in the Lizzie Borden Case (PearTree Press, 2005), by Harry Widdows, Stefani Koorey, Ph.D., and Kat Koorey, is now available for sale through the Fall River Historical Society. You can purchase it when you visit or by phone at 508-679-1071. From the Foreword: The Preliminary Hearing phase of the Commonwealth vs. Lizzie […]
Lizzie Borden and the 40 Whacks
The Devena Theatre Company is once again presenting Lizzie Borden and the 40 Whacks at a library in Massachusetts. Mark your calendars. The performance is scheduled for Wednesday, June 4, at the Robbins Melorial Library in Arlington, MA. ARLINGTON, MASS. – The Devena Theatre Company will be presenting “Lizzie Borden and the 40 Whacks†at […]
Inside the Ash Street Jail
In 1893, Lizzie Borden was housed at the Ash Street Jail in New Bedford, MA, during her trial for the murder of her father and step-mother on August 4, 1892. Photojournalist Jack Iddon visited the Ash Street Jail several times and recorded his visits on his website. It is a unique look inside the facility—when […]
Print Copies of The Hatchet are Now Available
After much proofing, the May/June issue (#22) of The Hatchet: Lizzie Borden’s Journal of Murder, Mystery & Victorian History is available for sale through LuLu.com. Subscribers to The Hatchet can purchase the print copy at a discount by logging into the membership area of The Hatchet. All others interested, please visit the PearTree Press LuLu […]
Paranormal State
This has nothing to do with Lizzie Borden, but I wanted to share it with you nonetheless. After I wrap up an issue of The Hatchet, I give myself a treat and do something totally fun and not Lizzie—goof off and play around on the computer, or read a book for pleasure, or catch up […]
The May 2008 Hatchet is ONLINE
The May 2008 issue of The Hatchet: Lizzie Borden’s Journal of Murder, Mystery & Victorian History has been placed ONLINE for your reading pleasure! This issue is a full 86 pages in length and contains some more surprising discoveries. Subscribers to The Hatchet can download your copy immediately or view a slideshow of the magazine […]
Alice Brayton’s Life on the Stream, Volumes One and Two
This may be old news to you, but it is something I stumbled upon today. The complete text of Alice Brayton’s Life on the Stream is online for you to download to your computer! Life on the Stream is an overview of Fall River, Massachusetts, in the nineteenth century. Volume One contains information on Holder […]
Evan Hunter on Lizzie Borden
When I interviewed the late Evan Hunter (aka Ed McBain) for LizzieAndrewBorden.com, I found him gracious and entirely accessible. I simply emailed him and asked for his thoughts and he wrote me right back and was perfectly wonderful in giving me his full attention. The interview I did with him is still online here. A […]
Thomas Mauriello on Sunday Morning this weekend
Noted forensic criminologist and professor at the University of Maryland will be appearing on CBS Sunday Morning with Charles Osgood on May 4th. Tomm was the featured interview in the last issue of The Hatchet: Lizzie Borden’s Journal of Murder, Mystery & Victorian History-—-having served as an expert on the most recent documentary on the […]