{"id":3620,"date":"2011-01-07T00:40:03","date_gmt":"2011-01-07T05:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/MondoLizzie\/?p=3620"},"modified":"2011-01-07T00:40:03","modified_gmt":"2011-01-07T05:40:03","slug":"sad-lizzie-borden-news-from-salem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/mondolizzie\/sad-lizzie-borden-news-from-salem\/","title":{"rendered":"Sad Lizzie Borden News From Salem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/mondolizzie\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2011\/01\/MASAL40whacks_pruiksma.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/mondolizzie\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2011\/01\/MASAL40whacks_pruiksma.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"MASAL40whacks_pruiksma\" width=\"280\" height=\"210\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3622\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Contact<br \/>\nLeonard Pickel<br \/>\n40 Whacks Museum<br \/>\nleonardpickel@gmail.com<br \/>\n972-951-5100<\/p>\n<p>For Immediate Release:<br \/>\n<strong>Salem\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Lizzie Borden Museum Closes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> Leonard Pickel of the 40 Whacks Museum announced today that the Salem museum will not open for the 2011 season. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We are heartbroken,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d stated Pickel who has been working on his dream of a Lizzie museum since 1992, after thousands of people descended on Fall River for the 100 year anniversary of the murders to find little more about the famous case than a small display at the historical society and the Borden gravesite. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It was just the struggling economy,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d explains Pickel who touts two years of economic downturn and lack of investment capital as the reason for the museum\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s closure. <\/p>\n<p>The Museum and gift shop opened in August of 2008 to nationwide debate over a Borden museum in Salem. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We chose the Essex street location because we could reach more people with Lizzie\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s story than we could have in Fall River, where the murders took place,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d explains Pickel who was surprised by the controversy. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153After all, Lizzie is part of Massachusetts history and the Borden murder mystery is a fascinating unsolved true crime!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>The 40 Whacks Museum detailed the life and times of the Lizzie Borden, a Fall River spinster arrested, tried and acquitted for the gruesome murders of her father and stepmother. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153So many books on Lizzie Borden try to solve the murders by inventing facts or leaving them out to support their position.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d explains Pickel who is in the process of writing his own book on Lizzie Borden from research done for the museum. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We cut through the spin, presenting the true story of Lizzie Borden and let the people decide if she did, or she didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t commit two ghastly murders. What we will miss most is watching people leave the gift shop arguing over Lizzie\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s guilt or innocence as they walked down Essex Street\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contact Leonard Pickel 40 Whacks Museum leonardpickel@gmail.com 972-951-5100 For Immediate Release: Salem\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Lizzie Borden Museum Closes Leonard Pickel of the 40 Whacks Museum announced today that the Salem museum will not open for the 2011 season. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We are heartbroken,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d stated Pickel who has been working on his dream of a Lizzie museum since 1992, after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,7,18,5,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-6-degrees-of-separation","category-borden-buzz","category-lizzie-4-sale","category-on-the-web","category-where-are-they-now"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/mondolizzie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/mondolizzie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/mondolizzie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/mondolizzie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/mondolizzie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/mondolizzie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/mondolizzie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/mondolizzie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/mondolizzie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}