Fall River Historical Society Carries Lizzie Borden and PearTree Press
The Fall River Historical Society, both online and in the brick and mortar gift shop on Rock Street, carries many Lizzie Borden items for sale, including the publications of PearTree Press. Check them out for the two latest issues of The Hatchet: Lizzie Borden’s Journal of Murder, Mystery & Victorian History, The Preliminary Hearing in […]
Paranormal Lizzie Borden Talk in NY
On May 31, at 3:00 pm at the Polaris Theatre in New York City, paranormal expert Al Rauber will be presenting “The Lizzie Tapes.” On Sunday, May 31st at 3pm, Sturges Paranormal is pleased to announce a lecture presented by Al Rauber. The price for this lecture is $20 at the door or you can […]
Alice Russell, Lizzie Borden’s “Turncoat Friend”
It happened today. Alice Russell’s former abode on Hillside Street, in Fall River, Massachusetts, was razed to the ground, along with the other 7 homes on the same block, to make way for a parking lot. Gone forever. Shame on you SouthCoast Hospital Group for destroying another neighborhood. Shame on you for taking 8 houses […]
Alice Russell’s House to be Demolished Soon
The ongoing fight to save the eight homes that abut Charlton Memorial Hospital in Fall River is soon to cease—-lost to the powers that be that decided that a flat top parking lot was a better choice than building a parking deck on their established parking area. One of the eight homes has some historical […]
Green Street Update
Things are happening quickly at 132 Green Street in Fairhaven, MA, the former home of the Brownell’s where Emma Borden was visiting on that fateful day in 1892. Today the vinyl siding is nearly complete. In addition, note the plastic corner boards and window frames. The eaves are also made of plastic. While the house […]
Borden Farmhouse
Last summer as I was driving by the Borden farmhouse in Swansea, I noticed that the front door was open and a work van was parked in the yard. This is the farm that Andrew Borden once owned with his partner Almy, and the families shared the house for some time. Andrew eventually bought out […]
Spring 2009 Hatchet in Print Format
The Spring 2009 issue of The Hatchet: Lizzie Borden’s Journal of Murder, Mystery & Victorian History is now available for sale in both subscription (online pdf) and print. If you want to subscribe, for only $15 per year, to the Online edition, please visit The Hatchet. If you would like to purchase the print copy, […]
Lizzie Borden: Story of her Life Not Quite Right
A new telling of the Lizzie Borden story appeared today on the Rotten Works blog. The writer, RottenOne, gets the story somewhat right. The basic gist is there, and fairly well told, as far as the truth of the matter is concerned. However, like almost all writers on the case these days, and speakers for […]
First Look at Cameron Munson’s Bordenia
The most recent issue of The Hatchet: Lizzie Borden’s Journal of Murder, Mystery & Victorian History has a wonderful interview with wunderkind director Cameron Munson. Cameron is the director of the new short film about the Borden case, called Bordenia, which just wrapped up shooting in Lancaster, PA. And you are the very first to […]
Lizzie Borden Channelled
A blogger named Creepy Hallows claims to have channelled Lizzie Borden, after much effort. This is not a spoof site or does the writer present themselves as anything other than serious. This is an interesting read and worth looking at. While I do not subscribe to the idea that they did, in fact, contact Lizzie, […]
Medium Georgia O’Connor Solves Borden Murder Case
According to Medium Georgia O’Connor, Lizzie Borden did not take an axe and give her mother 40 whacks. Nor her father 41. It was a known person to victim Andrew Borden, a man named Earl Matthews. She also says that Andrew was first hit in a doorway, then hit again (she says stabbed) on the […]
Calling All Bordenites and Preservationists!
We need your help. Southcoast Hospital Group’s Charlton Hospital, located at the top of French Street, and just two doors away from Maplecroft, is planning to demolish a neighborhood block to put in a flat top parking lot. The eight houses they have slated for the parking lot are located on the south side of […]
Fairhaven’s Green Street House Today
On a tip from Fairhaven Guy, a visit was made to Green Street in Fairhaven, to the old Brownell house where Emma Borden was staying that fateful day, August 4, 1892 (Lizzie Borden, of course was at home in Fall River). The new owners have gutted the structure and look to be building an addition/extension […]
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 […]
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 […]