For anyone interested in Victorian clothing, gifts, cards, furniture, and jewelry: The Victorian Trading Company. The catalog is first rate and fun to peruse. It is available for you to download as well.
They also offer free E-Greetings that you can send to your pals.
Our great good friend and Literary Hatchet contributor, Ada Jill Schneider, will be offering a Valentines Day poetry reading.
You can read some of Ada’s poetry in the FREE issues of the Literary Hatchet. Check it out!
The print version of the 4th edition of the Literary Hatchet is available for sale!
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There is an interesting contest that unfortunately ends today where people can submit their ideas for a film poster for a movie that never existed, but models itself as a parody on B movies.
JohnLennon15 submitted a poster for a fake film titled “I Married Lizzie Borden.” It is pretty imaginative and well done (see below). I think it might win as it seems to me to be the best of the entries.
Here are the rules:
Yes, it’s B-Movie time! Your goal? To create a convincing poster for one of those enjoyable B-Movies (or lower down the alphabet).
Sound’s simple? Well, we’re going to make it even more challenging! Your goal is NOT to mock films, not to parody them – your goal is to take a randomly generated B-Movie title and make a poster that is as believable as possible for the movie you’ve imagined!
Here’s what you do!
* Go to the B-Movie Generator and generate a title you want to do the poster of.
Now, when you do this poster, you also have to include the following on your entry at the site it’s hosted at:
* The year it was made.
* A summary of the plot and characters.
* Any other extra detail to make it more believable.So if your fake picture is from the 70’s, the poster is going to be in a different style than say, the 90’s or the 50’s. This also gives you a chance to find a style that fits your artistic skills and interests, from the cut-and-paste oddness of grindhouse posters to some of the strange and lush art of the 70’s and more!
A few resources to help those of you looking to do a blast from the past:
* Some 1970’s posters.
* Some 1960’s posters.
* Some 1950’s drive in posters.So go on, let’s see what kind of wonderfully cheese films you can create – that never were.
I found this on Craigslist.org. Interesting place to advertise a lecture! I must remember this avenue of marketing!
I have seen Chris’ presentation when he presented it in Tiverton, RI, at the public library. He filled the room and there was standing room only. If you are in the Charlestown area you should see this presentation.
Here is a link to the Charlestown Library.
And here is a link to the event.
1/25: Lizzie Borden The Mystery Continues Lecture Slideshow Presentation (Charlestown Branch Library)
Date: 2010-01-15, 10:44AM EST
Reply to: event-mzbpm-1553784865@craigslist.org
Monday, Jan 25 7:00pm to 8:00pm
Charlestown Branch Library
179 Main St., Boston, MA, 02129
617) 242-1248
This presentation is a one hour slide lecture by history teacher, Chris Daley, with photographs of the major players in the case as well as locations both from the time of the murders and how they appear today.
This program is free. Please call 617 242 12148 for more information.
Happy new Year from MondoLizzie.com!
The new issue of the FREE Literary Hatchet is now online for your reading pleasure. This issue is dedicated to the late William Schley-Ulrich.
You will find wonders within its pages, a gem in every poem and story.
We hope you enjoy it.
You can download your free copy here.
Just click Downloads, fill out the form for Issue #4 and it will download to your computer.
Warm wishes for a happy new year,
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The Literary Hatchet
This image is from Zillow.com, a site where you can find real estate. Once I entered Fall River in the search box, and clicked on the city on the map, the outlines of Fall River are shown with the red marks showing the houses for sale.
So it was to my surprise to see that the part of Fall River where the people live is shaped like a hatchet!!! Do you see what I see?
Mondo Lizzie Borden would like to wish all of you a joyous holiday season and a Merry Christmas.
Perhaps the walk signals in Fall River could be changed to this:
Another little tidbit from Parallel Lives: A Social History of Lizzie A. Borden and Her Fall River was posted online today at the website for the Fall River Historical Society.
And a lovely Christmas present it is!
Also: the Historical Society has released a statement regarding the book’s scheduled publication!
I have seen the cover of this book and it is going to be a first class production.
For those who like to hold their Hatchets in their hands, the print version (hard copy) of the latest issue is available for order!
You can grab yours here. Only $14.99 for 86 pages of great scholarship, humor, and excellent analysis!
A blast from the past: A letter to the editor of the New York Times from 1992, written by Neilson Caplain of Fall River, Massachusetts, former president of the board of the Fall River Historical Society.
Letter: On Lizzie Borden; The Murder Weapon Mystery
Published: May 16, 1992To the Editor:
According to a report from George Washington University (Campus Life, April 26), Prof. James E. Starrs hopes to dig up the bodies of Abby and Andrew Borden to compare the chips on a hatchet with the wounds inflicted by the hatchet when they were slain in Fall River, Mass., in 1892. The professor is bound to be disappointed. The hatchet to which he has access is not the one that did in the Bordens.
The hatchet he would examine, dubbed the “handleless hatchet,” is in the collection at the Fall River Historical Society. It is indeed the one presented at the trial of Lizzie Borden in June 1893. However, the prosecution did not claim that this was the very instrument used in the double murder. Reference to “The Trial of Lizzie Borden” by Edmund Pearson, which gives the verbatim testimony, discloses that the good doctors who testified said only that this hatchet could have been the murder weapon.
Furthermore there was no evidence presented at the trial to tie the hatchet to the crime — no blood, hair or tissue staining the metal or wood, or in the crevices between the two. To the contrary, the testimony of the forensic experts at Harvard was that the hatchet was clear of any such tell-tale matter.
To this day the mystery of the murder weapon has sustained interest and titillated investigators. What happened to the hatchet? How could it have been hidden or otherwise disposed of? Never before has a credible explanation been postulated.
Now, however, 100 years after the commission of the crime, startling new information regarding the actual murder weapon has become known and will be revealed in forthcoming books, confirming that a hatchet other than the one at the historical society did the dirty deed.
Under the circumstances exhumation of the bodies would serve no useful purpose, and it is to be hoped that the responsible authorities in Fall River will bar any violation of the graves. NEILSON CAPLAIN Fall River, Mass., April 30, 1992 The writer is a director and immediate past president of the Fall River Historical Society.
Saturday, December 19, from noon until 2:30, you can meet Rory Raven, the author of Wicked Conduct, a new book on the Sarah Cornell story—another famous Fall River murder.
Here are the details of the book from the Historical Society’s website.
Here is a big story about the book by Deb Allard in today’s Herald News.
If you can’t make it to the book signing, you can purchase your copy on Amazon.com at a discount.
