{"id":20025,"date":"2023-07-18T17:30:40","date_gmt":"2023-07-18T21:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vivafallriver.com\/support\/?p=20025"},"modified":"2023-07-18T17:30:43","modified_gmt":"2023-07-18T21:30:43","slug":"where-you-can-find-the-worlds-largest-lizzie-borden-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vivafallriver.com\/support\/where-you-can-find-the-worlds-largest-lizzie-borden-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"Where You Can Find the World\u2019s Largest Lizzie Borden Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Blog by Jayne Darcy<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Eight views of Lizzie Borden, from youth to middle age. \u00a0<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

You\u2019ve almost certainly heard the catchy rhyme about the Borden murder mystery many times:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lizzie Borden took an axe<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

And gave her mother forty whacks.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

When she saw what she had done,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

She gave her father forty-one.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

But did you know the rhyme\u2019s content is completely inaccurate?  The number of \u201cwhacks,\u201d the type of weapon that was used, the identity of the female victim \u2026 they\u2019re all incorrect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you want the real facts about Lizzie Borden and her infamous case, take a tour at Fall River Historical Society, where no myths or fictions are ever communicated. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tourists go to Fall River Historical Society to see Borden murder mystery artifacts such as the original crime scene photos and Lizzie Borden\u2019s personal belongings.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The Society maintains the world\u2019s largest Lizzie Borden exhibit and collections, with hundreds of rare artifacts pertaining to her life and trial, and the FRHS curators are among the world\u2019s top Lizzie Borden experts.  And according to the publication Coastal Mags<\/em>, \u201cWhat truly sets the exhibit apart is the information about the life and trial of Lizzie Borden that is shared with visitors.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPeople come here from all over to learn about Lizzie Borden,\u201d says Michael Martins, the FRHS curator.  \u201cFamilies come with children, and the kids are just as interested as the adults.  They know who Lizzie Borden is, and many of them have specific questions that they want to ask us.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Standouts in the exhibit include the alleged murder weapon (a hatchet, not<\/em> an axe), the only original trial exhibits in existence, and the photographs taken at the crime scene in 1892.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You\u2019ll also see a selection of Lizzie Borden\u2019s belongings \u2013 her 14K gold watch, for instance — and get a sense of her sentimental side through examples of her correspondence.  Known to be fond of children and animals, she signed a Christmas card to a young friend \u201cAuntie Borden.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Items are shown on a rotating basis, with some material on view only occasionally due to preservation concerns. Locals know to keep an eye out for a special event at the Society each August 4th<\/sup>, the anniversary of the murders, when fragile items such as the bloodstained bedspread from the room where Lizzie\u2019s stepmother, Abby Borden, was murdered may be on display temporarily.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Click here for more information about the Lizzie Borden collections at the FRHS<\/em>, visit their website.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You\u2019ve almost certainly heard the catchy rhyme about the Borden murder mystery many times…But did you know the rhyme\u2019s content is completely inaccurate?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20026,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_tec_requires_first_save":true,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_tribe_blocks_recurrence_rules":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_description":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_exclusions":"","footnotes":"","_tec_slr_enabled":"","_tec_slr_layout":""},"categories":[569,151],"tags":[375,580,440],"class_list":["post-20025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-attractions","category-visit","tag-fall-river-historical-society","tag-historical-attractions","tag-lizzie-borden"],"ticketed":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vivafallriver.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vivafallriver.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vivafallriver.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vivafallriver.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vivafallriver.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20025"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vivafallriver.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20027,"href":"https:\/\/vivafallriver.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20025\/revisions\/20027"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vivafallriver.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vivafallriver.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vivafallriver.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vivafallriver.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}