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Sally Marsh plays Lizzie

Website page for actress Sally Marsh, from the Cambridge theatre company Bawds, includes images of her playing Lizzie Borden in a production of Sharon Pollock’s Blood Relations.

Lizzie Borden Meets the Lads

On a site dedicated to exposing Internet scams called Scam o Rama, is a unique piece of creative expression. The site’s description states: The letters posted here illustrate (hilariously unsuccessful) attempts at ADVANCE FEE FRAUD. The sender claims to be a bureaucrat, banker or royal toadie, who wants to cut you, and only you, in […]

MLB Late Night Music: Buster Keaton

My favorite comic silent star of all time is Buster Keaton. Found this compilation of his pratfalls and stunts. You will enjoy it, I guarantee it. “I’ve Just Seen a Face” by the Beatles.

Peter Stubb’s Lizzie Borden

Thanks to “intrepid reporter” for this link. However, if you can tell me what Mr. Stubb is singing, you win a duck. The artist is Peter Stubb and the song is “Lizzie Borden.”

Crime Radio

Clews: The Historic True Crime Blog has an interesting post regarding a show on National Public Radio’s Talk of the Nation program. From the program’s description: For 10 years, the media and the police continued to investigate the highly publicized murder of 6-year-old JonBenet Ramsey. But thousands of unsolved cases gather dust in police files. […]

Crime Scene Stigma

Deluth News Tribune published an interesting piece on the problems owners of crime scene houses have in selling their properties. The article was inspired by the recent listing of the JonBenet Ramsey house in Boulder, Co. A 2000 study by a professor of finance at Wright State University in Ohio found that stigmatized properties do […]

Haunted Decor

Haunted Decor offers this really amazing Lizzie Borden item. Borden Tombstone, measuring 36” H x 18” W x 2.5” D. “These lightweight rigid foam props will look right at home in your haunted house or halloween graveyard! Very realistic paint finishes will convince anyone that our Halloween props, Haunted house decorations, and Halloween Tombstonesare real!” […]

Nashville Ballet Tickets on Sale

Single tickets are on sale September 5th for the Nashville Ballet’s production of The Legend of Lizzie Borden. Single tickets range in price from $19 to $52. Tickets are available through Ticketmaster or can be purchased at the TPAC box office downtown Nashville or at Davis-Kidd Booksellers in Green Hills. To purchase group tickets, please […]

Aspects of the Victorian Book

Aspects of the Victorian Book includes a wealth of historical information regarding publishing during the Victorian Age, including both publishing and printing. Subject areas for Production include: Printing technology, illustration, lithography, 1860s wood engraving, photographically illustrated books, binding, and John Leighton binding. Subject areas for Printing include: Novels, yellowbacks, penny dreadfuls, children’s books, and magazines. […]

You Know You are From Fall River if . . .

From the MySpace page of Veronica Paige: you know you’re from fall river if… i may not live there anymore, but you gotta represent! ¢¾ You have ever “cruised the ave,” or even spoke the term “cruise the ave.” ¢¾ You know who Lizzie Borden is and how many “whacks” were involved. ¢¾ You refer […]

Joe Carlson True Crime Writer Blog

UPDATE: Joe has changed his blog to wordpress and the link to his blog is here. Please leave a comment and bookmark! Visit it often, cuz I’ll update it almost every day. It is all you ever wanted to know about Parkman-Webster and garage sales at the Carlson home. True crime author and Hatchet contributor, […]

How to Speak 19th Century

Eric Ferguson works at a living history museum and in interested in language. To that end, he took a 19th Century book, Private Yankee Doodle, by Joseph Plumb Martin, edited by George F. Scheer (originally published in 1830, Little, Brown & Co, 1962. Eastern Acorn Press, 1988), and combed it for its vocabulary. He noted […]