RIP Dave Quigley
I first met Dave Quigley at the Lizzie Borden Bed & Breakfast oh so many years ago. When I knew him, he was the morning cook. In a way, he was the “breakfast” in the bed & breakfast. He would cheerfully show up for work each morning there were guests from the night before and […]
Harry E. Widdows (1939-2014) ~ With Sadness and with Sorrow
He Is Not Dead I cannot say, and I will not say That he is dead. He is just away. With a cheery smile, and a wave of the hand, He has wandered into an unknown land And left us dreaming how very fair It needs must be, since he lingers there. And you oh […]
Lizzie Borden’s Maplecroft Porch Through the Years
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Robert Flynn, RIP
This just posted on Shelley Dziedzic’s Wharps and Wefts blog.
Sad Lizzie Borden News From Salem
Contact Leonard Pickel 40 Whacks Museum [email protected] 972-951-5100 For Immediate Release: Salem’s Lizzie Borden Museum Closes Leonard Pickel of the 40 Whacks Museum announced today that the Salem museum will not open for the 2011 season. “We are heartbroken,†stated Pickel who has been working on his dream of a Lizzie museum since 1992, after […]
You Can’t Chop Your Papa at Lizzie Borden B&B
On Tuesday, September 8, I was most graciously invited to the Lizzie Borden B&B by Lee-ann Wilber to meet the great Chad Mitchell Trio! They were in town for a tour of the house and sat with me for an interview. Then they sang their hit song, “You Can’t Chop Your Papa” to the group. […]
Jack Beeson dead at 88
The great American opera composer Jack Beeson has died at the age of 88. This from the Eugene Opera Company blog: Beeson’s next opera, Lizzie Borden, again based on an American subject, was commissioned by the Ford Foundation for the New York City Opera. Lizzie Borden tells the familiar story with less emphasis on the […]
RIP Walter Mitchell
RIP Walter Mitchell. From SouthCoastToday.com: Mitchell remembered as ‘Renaissance man,’ good friend April 08, 2010 12:00 AM By BRIAN J. LOWNEY Fall River Spirit Correspondent When Walter Mitchell died on March 21, the city of Fall River lost a true Renaissance man whose memory will be forever etched upon the hearts of all those who […]
Fall River History Club Tours Interlachen
Today was the first summer day without rain so far this season. The Fall River History Club had the good fortune of having Fall River historian Bill Goncalo lead us on a tour of Interlachen, the former home of Spencer Borden, that juts out into the North Watuppa Pond, and the Cook-Borden ice house. A […]
Lizzie Borden, We Barely Knew Thee!
Cowabunga! The new book about Lizzie Borden and her Fall River being written by the curatorial staff at the Fall River Historical Society is going to change everything! Everything we thought we knew about Miss Lizzie A. Borden, everything we have heard so far, read so far, seen so far, decided so far, is going […]
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 […]
Green Street House in Fairhaven
A quick update on the Green Street house in Fairhaven, Massachusetts. Emma Borden, Lizzie’s Borden’s sister, was visiting the Brownell family there on August 4, 1892, the day her father and stepmother were murdered in Fall River—-and thus had an iron-clad alibi as to her whereabouts that fateful day. Fairhaven is 16.7 miles away from […]
Kid from Fall River
E.J. Dionne is a substantial journalist. He works for the Washington Post and appears frequently as a commentator on This Week with George Stephanopoulos and Meet the Press. He wrote a sweet piece about being from Fall River and Ted Kennedy that you might find interesting. It captures the spirit of Massachusetts very nicely. Oh, […]
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 is 148 Years Old Today
Lizzie Borden was born on July 19, 1860, and Fall River and the Lizzie Borden B&B is celebrating . . . It’s Lizzie’s birthday, and you’re invited By Deborah Allard Herald News Staff Reporter Fall River — Celebrate a little local infamy today with something sweet for Miss Lisbeth Borden. It’s her birthday. Lizzie Andrew […]
Borden Farm Gets a New Chapeau Update
UPDATE: The roof has been completed on the old Borden farm on Gardner’s Neck Road in Swansea, MA.