Here is the history of ownership of the “Lizzie Borden” House in Fall River, Ma. now a famous Bed & Breakfast hosted by Lee-ann Wilber and Donald Woods. Built in the year Borden & Almy formed their partnership in the furniture business (and just before that year passed Andrew would marry Sarah Anthony Morse) this [...]

NEWS: I’ve started another blog and added it to my Blogroll:  Insoymada.  Check it out. Architecturally speaking, Scale and Form can be utilized to transcend the historic into new visuals of beauty.  But not in the case of the new court house across the street from where Lizzie Borden used to live. In 1892, Lizzie [...]

You can’t get any more succinct than this. Two years late, but anyway: Thank you.

(Recycled post – busy traveling). The above image has nothing to do with this entry. I just like it. Besides, I put the names to the figures – purely fictitious. June 19, 1911 was the opening of Fall River’s Cotton Centennial – just one month before Lizzie’s 51st birthday. We can assume she did not [...]

I’m traveling in upstate New York (Hyde Park & Albany) doing some research…no time for blogging. But I’d like all my readers to check out Shelley Dziedzic’s blog for an excellent article on the guy I think Lizzie Borden had a crush on. Als0 a new pic of Dr. SEABURY BOWEN! Click HERE. Great sleuthing [...]

Image ©Faye Musselman 2010 Lizzie Borden lived as many years before her Trial as she did after her Trial.  She was born the year the Pony Express started, Elizabeth Cady Stanton addressed the state’s legislature on the subject of women’s suffrage, and Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities was published.   There were only 33 [...]

Stephen Borden has been hard at work the past few months on his website which I’ve long had included in my own Blogroll (see listing on the right). He recently added the Hattie Borden Weld’s Borden Genealogy on his home page.  This work has been used by researchers and genealogists for  over a hundred years [...]

Back from a business/pleasure trip to San Francisco the past few days where I met up with an old friend from the 1992 Lizzie Borden Centennial Conference at Bristol Community College in Fall River.  We talked about the upcoming book, Parallel Lives by the Fall River Historical Society.  My friend reminded me of the gal [...]

Fall River remains one of those cities best viewed from a distance.  Up close her blemishes neither beckon nor embrace.  Lizzie Borden, on the other hand, forever beckons, blemishes and all. From a historical perspective, Fall River is as associated with Lizzie Borden as Dallas is to the JFK assassination. Both horrific and shocking events, [...]

More vintage pictures of Fall River……. Rock Street 1910 City Hall after fire of 1886. Steamship Pilgrim Hotel Wilbur Academy Building Academy Building Interior Main Street – 1905 92 Second Street – 1930′s Lincoln Ave – House on left still stands and is easily recognized. Main Street – 1940′s Old Central Police Station Bedford Street [...]

I’ve written before about one of Fall River’s hidden secrets, namely the John Mann murals in the former Matthew J. Kuss Middle School at 217 Rock Street.  John Mann was commissioned under the Works Progress Administration “Federal Art in New England” project in 1936.  He painted a history of Fall River in a series of [...]

Here’s a snippet from “Lizbeth – A Victorian Nightmare” (still in production) by filmmaker Ric Rebelo of Fall River Ma.  You can view his other “teasers” on YouTube. And who were the Gardners that factored into this case? Henry, William & Hamilton Gardner I’ll be writing about the Gardners of  Swansea and their ties to [...]

The once beautiful Gothic Glamor Girl of Fall River, the Central Congregational Church on Rock Street, suffered her last years as the Abby Grille.   As seen by clicking these images,  you get an “up close and personal” view of the progressive decay and neglect to her exterior. Around the 10th of this month, vandals broke [...]

Lucy S. Macomber headstone at Oak Grove Cemetery.  She was a school chum of Lizzie’s (the class ahead of her) and listed as the 17th bequest in Lizzie’s will, receiving $1,000. Fall River Locust Street residence of Grace Hartley Howe and Louis McHenry Howe.  He wrote her many letters to this address while he resided [...]

The Fall River Herald News carried this article on the much anticipated book, “Parallel Lives: A Social History of Lizzie A. Borden and Her Fall River” to be published by the Fall River Historical Society “before Christmas”  (3rd time we’ve heard that but this may be the year). For example, we learn that Lizzie had [...]

Fall River’s Braga Bridge (soon to be painted dark blue) Fall River is a very different city today than when I first visited there in 1977.  It’s different than it was in the 1980′s and even from the 1990′s.  And to a native Fall Riverite, it is especially different from just 18 years ago. Haunted [...]

More images – Notre Dame Church Bank Street (north side) Prospect and Highland McWhirr’s on South Main Belmont Street Belmont looking West Back of Durfee Mill 1911 1911 Flint Mill 1911 King Mill spinners 1911 Postal Messengers 1916 Chace Mill 1916 King Philip carding room 1916 Merhants Mill I’ve added more old photos of Fall [...]

Senator Ted Kennedy – The Lion Sleeps Tonight “Someday … long after the signs come down and the crowds stop cheering, and the bands stop playing, may it be said of our campaign that we kept the faith. And may it be said of us, both in dark passages and in bright days, in the [...]

Lizzie Borden’s former church on Rock Street Here’s how it went down today in Fall River on the public auction of the former Central Congregational Church. It’s like this: Raped, pilfered and left bleeding, a warden tosses $250,000 at her naked, scared body as if to say: ‘Here, put this on and come with me.’ [...]

If I had a “BFD” category on Lizzie Borden, this post would go in it.  From the administrator of the Lizzie Borden Forum comes this statement: “The Fall River Historical Society has once again allowed us a small glimpse into the world of Lizzie Borden from their soon-to-be-published Parallel Lives: A Social History of Lizzie [...]