THE HATCHET: LIZZIE BORDEN'S JOURNAL OF
MURDER, MYSTERY & VICTORIAN HISTORY
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Meet the Emerys
One hundred and sixteen years later, Borden historians, scholars, and enthusiasts are getting a rare view of never before seen photographs recently uncovered at the Swansea Historical Society.
By Len Rebello
The Borden-Swansea Link
Genealogical information provides the missing link. Family pictures—If we are fortunate, we have photos of those near and dear to us, and those who are far away, in distance and in time.
By Kat Koorey
The Swansea Public Library
If you mention the word “library,” images of majestic
neoclassic structures flicker across my mind, such as
the one in New York City, with its ageless Beaux-Arts
architecture, along with Patience and Fortitude, two
magnificent silent stone lions guarding its entrance.
By Michael Brimbau
The Reverend and The Mill Girl: An Unsolved Fall River Mystery
It is now one hundred and seventy-five years since Sarah Cornell, a thirty-year old weaver in a Massachusetts cotton mill, was found strangled
to death on the edge of a farm near Fall River in December of 1832. The physical evidence at the crime scene, plus incriminating but unsigned letters found among Sarah’s possessions, led to the arrest of the Reverend Ephraim Kingsbury Avery, a Bristol, Rhode Island Episcopal Methodist minister.
By Richard Behrens
Lizzie Borden's Morgan Street School
It is a frustrating fact that there is not more known about the early years of Lizzie Borden. Hopefully, diaries and letters will be found and published one day that will reveal more about the missing years of her life. But surely one area of her life that holds
a fascination is her grammar school years. By Shelley Dziedzic
Falling in Fall River
In the spring of 2003 I took a trip to Fall River to research a book I am still working on. The longer I studied the Borden case the more things I found that I wanted to go out there to see. Learning through Stefani Koorey’s website and source documents,
I used to only dream of being able to have access to things that were not available before—transcripts of the trial, Inquest, and Preliminary Hearing to name a few. They fueled my passion for what was already a prime interest.
By Sherry Chapman
1892 & 1896 Fall River City Directory Entries
Here is another important resource created by Harry Widdows—a listing of all characters connected with the Lizzie Borden case and their occupations and addresses from the 1892 and 1896 Fall River City Directories..
By Harry Widdows
The Unfortunate Dr. Webster
In November 1849, Dr. George Parkman disappeared from the streets of Boston. His mutilated body was found in the Harvard Medical School a week later by Ephraim Littlefield, the janitor at the medical school. Dr. John White Webster, Harvard’s professor of chemistry was arrested for murder because of Littlefield’s suspicion of him. The unfortunate Dr. Webster was tried and executed for the crime in August 1850.
By Glen H. Carlson
The Cutting Room: Critical Notes on the Borden Legacy —An Intuitive Assessment of the Brown Theory
The publication of a nonfiction book that identified a mystery person as the murderer was the logical progression in the literature of the Lizzie Borden story. Accomplished writers such as Edmund Pearson and Victoria Lincoln have explored Lizzie as axe murderess. Radin named Bridget as the culprit; Spiering accused Emma. And Morse has been something of an accomplice in several accounts.
By Eugene Hosey
Denise Noe's Lizzie Whittlings: "My Ain Countrie"
There appears to have been a special relationship between Lizzie Borden and a poetic work entitled “My Ain Countrie.” The words “At Hame In My Ain Countrie” are inscribed in an oak mantle in Maplecroft.
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Forum/Outspoken
"Where Were You, Lizzie Borden" by Melissa Allen
Dear Abby by Sherry Chapman
Bridget's Kitchen by Sherry Chapman
"Wanted" by Larry Allen
"Maybe" by Larry Allen
Writer's Ink: Meet Hatchet Author Michael Brimbau
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Stefani
Koorey, former regularly contributing writer for the Lizzie
Borden Quarterly, holds a Ph.D. in theatre history
and dramatic criticism, an M.F.A. in theatre management,
and an M.A. in theatre arts---all from Penn State University
(LETS GO LIONS!). She has enjoyed a varied professional
life as a professional bibliographer, dramaturg, storyteller,
writer, editor, professor, box office manager, and librarian. She
is the author of two books.
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