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 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. […]
Lizzie Borden Theft of Content
UPDATE: As of 10 PM tonight, just four short hours since my rant below, the owner of the site in question has removed the content in question. Three cheers for truth and justice. Thank you to all who wrote and sent me good wishes! I thank you all for your good work. There is a […]
Lizzie Borden’s Cellar Visit by GardenBay Films
Check this out! Filmmaker Richard Behrens has done it again—made a Lizzie Mini film and posted in on YouTube.com. This one stars Shelley Dziedzic as Lizzie and offers us a truly great tour of the cellar at 92 Second Street by the author of Lizzie Borden Past & Present, Leonard Rebello. The film is fabulous! […]
Jonathan Goodman 1932-2008
As first reported in the London Telegraph.co.uk, and most recently on Laura James’ wonderful blog CLEWS, Great Britain’s leading crime historian passed away on January 10th at the age of 76. His Lizzie Borden connection is that he penned the compendium Bloody Versicles, a must-have for any Borden library. In the 1970s Goodman edited the […]
Lizzie Borden’s Fall River Courthouse Construction
Directly across the street from 92 Second Street in Fall River is the construction site for the new (unnecessary) Fall River courthouse. So far, as of Jan. 8, 2008, this is where they are at with that.
Lizzie Borden for Free
Here is a potpourri of free Lizzie Borden items for your collection. I am always amazed by what I find when surfing the net, and my mission is to share it with you so you can enjoy it too! 1. Verdict in Dispute by Edgar Lustgarten (1949). The entire 264 page volume has been scanned […]
Lizzie Borden Fills a Classroom
Recently, there have been a spate of ads and announcements touting courses (past, present, and future) in criminal justice, law, and true crime that include a section of their curriculum on the Lizzie Borden case. Here is a small sampling of what you might find at your neighborhood library or adult education center. If you […]
Lizzie Borden’s 92 Second Street Gets a Facelift
Shelley Dziedzic on her Lizzie Borden: Warps and Wefts blog has posted a marvelous slide show about the renovations and painting being done at the Lizzie Borden B&B at 92 Second Street. The owners, Lee-ann Wilber and Donald used the holiday down time wisely and are sprucing up the place. Take a gander and enjoy.
Grow your own Christmas Tree Card with Lizzie Borden
Check this out. You can make your own growing Christmas tree card and send it to a friend. Here is my card, all about Lizzie Borden, of course. LINK.
Lizzie Borden and Life Magazine
A very recent publication contains a few pages about the Borden Murders: Life: The Most Notorious Crimes in American History: Fifty Fascinating Cases from the Files – in Pictures by the editors of Life Magazine. I am most excited by this book because it mentions The Hatchet: Journal of Lizzie Borden Studies in the text! […]
Curse of Lizzie Borden 2: Prom Night
Filmmaker Eric Swelstad has produced a sequel to the gross-out horror flick The Curse of Lizzie Borden, and it is due out on DVD in early 2008. Interesting that Lizzie has now become a horror icon. It was only a matter of time, I suppose. The first film was pure camp and worth the price […]
MHC no longer has link to Lizzie Borden murder trial
Today the Daily Hampshire Gazette ran a piece by Kristin Pepini about Mount Holyoke and the Borden case. You might remember that the August issue of The Hatchet: Journal of Lizzie Borden Studies included brand new research on where Emma Borden went during her “away years” in the 1860s. It turned out that Emma went […]
The Origins of Christmas Cards
According to B.K. Swartz, Jr. in his “The Origin of American Christmas Myth and Customs,” The salutation, “Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year,” may have first appeared in 17th century European correspondence. Says Swartz, “Merry is probably of English origin and was introduced to America in Dickens’ time.” In Clement Moore’s poem (l822) “A […]
Lizzie Borden Episode on The Practice
On season two of the now defunct ABC TV show The Practice, they did an episode with the following storyline: “With help from Ally McBeal, the firm defends a murder suspect who claims she was Lizzie Borden in a past life. Ellenor learns the truth about Dr. Spivak.” That episode is now available for download […]