Emma Borden & Lizzie’s Lock of Hair
Tattered Fabric: Fall River's Lizzie Borden (Recycled) Emma Borden from a sketch at her 1913 interview Emma Lenora Borden was Lizzie Andrew Borden’s sister. She was born March 1, 1851, and died on...
View ArticleHypocrisy of the Central Congregational Church
Originally posted March 31, 2012. But my opinion hasn’t changed. Tattered Fabric: Fall River's Lizzie Borden We all know Lizzie Borden was very active in the Central Congregational Church of Fall...
View Article“MAPLECROFT” UNDER AGREEMENT FOR SALE
From Suzanne’s Facebook page today: “It’s official, Lizzie Borden’s (Lizbeth’s) Maplecroft is UNDER AGREEMENT, exactly a year to the date of closing on Lizzie Bordens Bed and Breakfast. I think she’d...
View ArticleEarly Visits to Fall River
Tattered Fabric: Fall River's Lizzie Borden Before it was the Lizzie Borden Bed & Breakfast Museum, the house at 92 Second Street was the home of John and Josephine McGinn. The history of the...
View ArticleTo All The Lame-brain, Lazy-ass, Semi-literate People Who Think Lizzie Borden...
Tattered Fabric: Fall River's Lizzie Borden ….because you’ve watched all those paranormal ghost chasing shows, or you saw the TV film with Elizabeth Montgomery or you’ve googled “Lizzie Borden” and...
View ArticleLizzie Borden Won’t Be At The London Olympics But I Will!
Tattered Fabric: Fall River's Lizzie Borden Please join me on Sunday for my live reporting of the Opening Ceremonies of the London Olympics. Selected by Facebook as one of two designated Special...
View ArticleVintage Fall River
Reblogged 2/2/22 – Just because I can. Tattered Fabric: Fall River's Lizzie Borden Here are more images: 1st Congregational Church 1900’s Durfee Textile School 1910 on Davol St. City Hall 1950’s Main...
View ArticleArthur Sherman Phillips – Lizzie Didn’t Do It
Tattered Fabric: Fall River's Lizzie Borden (Recycled post from June 2008) Arthur Sherman Phillips wrote the impressive 3-Volume History of Fall River and was a junior attorney assisting on Lizzie’s...
View ArticleRandom Nuggets – John W. Coughlin & Josephine McGinn
As Mayor of Fall River Mayor Coughlin is back row, second from right. Franklin D. Roosevelt is seated, center. Coughlin, John W. (1861-1920) — of Fall River, Bristol County, Mass. Born in Fall...
View ArticleThe Most Factual Telling on the Lizzie Borden Case Has Not Yet Been Produced
One specific letter in The Knowlton-Pearson Correspondence pretty well sums up where we are today relevant to the most interesting book on this case. Written 35 years after the murders by the son of...
View ArticleWhere did that Lizzie “Noisy Bird” Letter go?
From September 2010. Tattered Fabric: Fall River's Lizzie Borden The below image is of a display that once adorned the office wall of Reverend Robert Lawrence, past minister of the First Congregational...
View ArticleLee-ann Wilber Imposter Posts on Her Facebook Account
An outbreak of indignation followed a posting on Lee-ann’s Facebook account from some “mystery person” writing as if they were Lee-ann herself reaching out from the afterlife. Thank you, Tim Westberg...
View ArticleKnowlton-Pearson Correspondence
Huzzah! Huzzah! The Fall River Historical Society has announced their new publication on the collection of letters regarding the Lizzie Borden case. Before this the only access to copies of the...
View ArticleTilden-Thurber
Tattered Fabric: Fall River's Lizzie Borden The image above shows the store from which Lizzie Borden stole two porcelain paintings, “Love’s Echo” and “Love’s Awakening”. She kept one for herself and...
View ArticleNewspapers of August 4th – 10th, 1892
Well, another August 4th has come and about to be gone and we can be done with the regurgitations in the telling of perhaps the most startling, notorious and unsolvable crimes in American history....
View ArticleTimeline of Events Around and During the Borden Murders
Tattered Fabric: Fall River's Lizzie Borden It’s almost that time of year when focus on Fall River, MA is dominated by Lizzie Borden and the unsolved hatchet murders of her father, Andrew, and her...
View ArticleLizzie Borden House: August 4th Re-enactments
Many of you may know of – or even attended – the annual August 4th re-enactments of the discovery of the murders of Lizzie Borden’s father and stepmother on that same date in 1892 in Fall River, Ma....
View ArticleStill Thrills and Delights 161 Years Later
The woman who gave birth to Lizzie 161 years ago. Sarah Morse Borden Had Lizzie Borden lived she would be 161 years old today. Well, she didn’t live but she endures. In the hearts, minds, and revenue...
View ArticlePRELIMINARY HEARING FOR FREE!!
Preliminary Hearing Transcript UPDATE 7/10/2021 – If you’ve never read the Preliminary Hearing report in the case of Lizzie Borden, you’ll find it here on Professor Douglas O. Linder’s “Case of...
View ArticleMORE (SAD?) NEWS ON LIZZIE BORDEN B&B UNDER NEW OWNERSHIP
Erika Mailman wrote a lengthy piece for the online Smithsonian Magazine in which she describes more changes to take place as stated by new owner Lance Zaal. Opinions of its transformation shared by...
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