Shelley Dziedzic made an amazing find recently—Lizzie Borden’s 1890 passport application!
You can read all about her discovery in the New Research section of The Lizzie Borden Virtual Museum and Library.
I guess this is the year for new finds. We now know where Emma Borden went to school for a year and a half in the 1860s; we have a new portrait of Andrew Borden; and now Lizzie’s passport application. What more could the year bring? KEWL!
Dr. Stefani Koorey: PearTree Press, Theatre prof, Author, Historian, Librarian. Florida born, New England transplant.
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When Richard Behrens passed away, his widow Anna Behrens made the decision to keep his legacy alive — the Lizzie Borden Girl Detective mystery series, and the podcast that grew up alongside it. I stepped in as host starting with
It’s been three years since I last posted here — and fittingly, I’m breaking the silence on Lizzie Borden’s birthday. She was born on July 19, 1860, and there’s something appropriate about picking this date to come back to the
As of today, August 27, 2023, we have raised $2,466 in checks and donations to our GoFundMe fundraiser to erect a grave marker for Edwin H. Porter, the author of the first book on the Borden case, The Fall River
