Show Notes
Lizzie Took An Axe
Caitlin and Francesgrace bring in the new season with a bang, by trading rhymes and stories about Emma and Lizzie Borden, of axe-wielding fame.
Accessibility Description: Flared pillar that reads: Children of | Andrew J and Sarah A Borden | Alice Ester | 1856-1858 | Lizbeth Andrews | 1860-1927 | Emma Lenora | 1851-1927. On the right side of the pillar from this angle, A.J. Borden is visible on the base. There is scrollwork between the base and the center of the column and the top of the column is also decoratively carved. The monument is surrounded by green grass and there are small headstones in the background.
Accessibility Description: A rectangular grave marker that simply reads “Emma” in block letters. Someone has placed a small rock and a crucifix on the stone and it’s surrounded by grass and twigs.
Emma Borden:
“Emma Borden Biography.” The Famous People, accessed Sept. 2, 2022. ttps://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/emma-borden-43224.php
“FEW AT BORDEN BURIAL; Plans for Funeral of Woman Tried for Murder Kept Secret.” The New York Times. June 6, 1927. Accessed Aug. 30, 2022. https://www.nytimes.com/1927/06/06/archives/few-at-borden-burial-plans-for-funeral-of-woman-tried-for-murder.html
“The Unusual Life Story of Emma Borden.” Facts Ninja, accessed Sept. 1, 2022. https://www.factsninja.com/the-unusual-life-story-of-emma-borden.html
“SISTERS ESTRANGED OVER NANCE O’NEILL” San Francisco Call, Volume 98, Number 7. June 7, 1905. Accessed Sept 1, 2022. https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SFC19050607.2.65&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1
Conforti, Joseph. “Why 19th-Century Axe Murderer Lizzie Borden Was Found Not Guilty.” Smithsonian Magazine, July 23, 2019. Accessed Aug. 29, 2022. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/why-19th-century-axe-murderer-lizzie-borden-was-found-not-guilty-180972707/
Linder, Douglas O. “The Borden Trial: Biographies of Key Figures.” Famous Trials. accessed Sept. 8, 2022. https://famous-trials.com/lizzieborden/1436-biographies
Bonus:
Accessibility Description: A rectangular grave marker that simply reads “Lizbeth” in block letters. Someone has placed a small rocks and coins on the stone. There is an artificial blue flower below the stone and it’s surrounded by grass and twigs.
Lizzie Borden:
Allard, Deborah. “New photos surface of former Lizzie Borden maid after murders” Wicked Local. wickedlocal.com, April 9, 2012. Accessed Aug. 30, 2022. https://www.wickedlocal.com/story/archive/2012/04/09/new-photos-surface-former-lizzie/38187951007/
Brown, Arnold. Lizzie Borden: The Legend, the Truth, the Final Chapter. Nashville, Tennessee: Rutledge Hill Press, 1991.
Kent, David; Flynn, Robert A, eds. The Lizzie Borden Sourcebook. Wellesley, Massachusetts: Branden Books, 1992.
Porter, Edwin H. The Fall River Tragedy: A History of the Borden Murders. Fall River, Massachusetts: Geo. R. H. Buffinton, Publisher, 1893.
Radin, Edward. Lizzie Borden: The Untold Story. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1961.
Bonus Link:
FindAGrave - Lizzie Andrew Borden
Land Acknowledgment:
We’d like to acknowledge that we recorded this podcast on the traditional lands of the Wampanoag, Pokanoket, and Narragansett peoples. Here in the Northeast and all across the country, native peoples are still here and thriving. For more information, please see the links below.
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