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Category: Where are they now?

A Few Thoughts on Morton Gould

Morton Gould wrote the score for Agnes de Mille’s Fall River Legend ballet. He died in 1996. This biography details his impressive achievements.

Earth Day’s Dark Past

I was watching a stupendous documentary from the series Investigative Reports on the A&E channel on cable the other day and learned a new fact. The show was a rerun of the 1998 film “Peace, Love, and Murder.” Review Summary This documentary, part of the Investigative Reports series from A&E, examines the story of hippie-turned-fugitive […]

City Marshal John Fleet Calls Fall River a ‘Moral City’

On 16 October 1910, the Boston Daily Globe reported that City Marshal John Fleet had a high regard for Fall River. If you remember, John Fleet was Assistant City Marshal under Marshal Hilliard at the time of the Borden murders of 1892. According to Commonwealth of Massachusetts VS. Lizzie A. Borden; The Knowlton Papers, 1892-189 […]

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 […]

Mini Lizzie Film by Garden Bay Films

This film, one of many more to come by Garden Bay Films, is a tribute to Eli Bence. You may or may not know who Eli was, but you should. He almost caused the conviction of Lizzie Borden! Mr. Bence was the man who testified at the inquest and preliminary hearings that he saw Lizzie […]

Rest in Peace Neilson Caplain

My friend Neilson Caplain passed away yesterday. Neilson was a great man and a wonderful conversationalist. He was an author, historian, collector, preservationist, past President of the Fall River Historical Society, and a true gentleman. He wrote regularly for The Hatchet and loaned me many items related to the case and Fall River. He also […]

Brownell house condemned

In a recent thread on the Lizzie Borden Society Forum, FairhavenGuy reported that 132 Green Street, in Fairhaven, the house where Emma Borden was staying on August 4, 1892, when the murders took place in Fall River, has fallen further into disrepair and a notice had gone up outside stating that. Here are photos taken […]

More (Moor) Murders

I have always been interested in reading true crime. I don’t know if this comes from being the child of reading parents who passed such books onto me when they were finished, or if it was because I come from the city where Ted Bundy was finally convicted. The trial was held in my town. […]

Bewitched Convention

Lizzie is mentioned briefly in this BostonHerald.com news item that appears today about a Bewitched convention. Salem seems like the place to be this weekend. Kewl!

Alison Fraser

Alison Fraser created the role of Lizzie Borden in Christopher McGovern’s musical Lizzie Borden. She has a fabulous website that I know you will love. She has a section with some sound clips from the soundtrack, a slideshow gallery of her various roles which includes her Lizzie, and a very creative area with the Paper […]

Further Masterton Bio

William Masterton.

This just in from an “intrepid reporter”:(from page 13 of The Valchemist, Journal of the Connecticut Valley Section, American Chemical Society. Obituary William L. “Bill” Masterton passed away on June 19, 2005. He is survived by his wife Loris with whom he shared 52 years of marriage; two sons, Fred and Reynold “Peter”; and four […]

William Masterton 1927-1995

William Masterton.

I heard a rumor that William Masterton, author of Lizzie Didn’t Do It! had passed away last year but I couldn’t confirm it until now. I was pointed to this post on a FreeList site that tells the sad news and the details of the condition that lead to his death. Using my resources, I […]