Episodes
Monday Mar 04, 2024
Lizzie Borden Podcast, Episode 30: Interview with Dennis Binette, Part Three
Monday Mar 04, 2024
Monday Mar 04, 2024
In this episode we present part 3 of our interview with Dennis Binette, co-author of many books published by the Fall River Historical Society, including The Knowlton Papers, Women at Work, the Fall River Discourses series, The Knowlton-Pearson Correspondence, The Jennings Journals, and Parallel Lives: A Social History of Lizzie A Borden and Her Fall River.
From his many years as assistant Curator of the Fall River Historical Society, Dennis is an acclaimed expert at research and sourcing information relating to Fall River history and the life of Lizzie Borden and the Borden murders. Dennis shares his tips, techniques, stories of working on the books, and research tools with us today.
Saturday Feb 17, 2024
Lizzie Borden Podcast, Episode 29: Interview with Dennis Binette, Part 2
Saturday Feb 17, 2024
Saturday Feb 17, 2024
In this episode we present part two of our interview with Dennis Binette, co-author of many books published by the Fall River Historical Society, including The Knowlton Papers, Women at Work, the Fall River Discourses series, The Knowlton-Pearson Correspondence, The Jennings Journals, and Parallel Lives: A Social History of Lizzie A Borden and Her Fall River.
From his many years as assistant Curator of the Fall River Historical Society, Dennis is an acclaimed expert at research and sourcing information relating to Fall River history and the life of Lizzie Borden and the Borden murders. Dennis shares his tips, techniques, stories of working on the books, and research tools with us today.
Wednesday Jan 31, 2024
Lizzie Borden Podcast, Episode 28: Interview with Dennis Binette, Part One
Wednesday Jan 31, 2024
Wednesday Jan 31, 2024
In this episode we interview Dennis Binette, co-author of many books published by the Fall River Historical Society, including The Knowlton Papers, Women at Work, the Fall River Discourses series, The Knowlton-Pearson Correspondence, The Jennings Journals, and Parallel Lives: A Social History of Lizzie A Borden and Her Fall River.
From his many years as assistant Curator of the Fall River Historical Society, Dennis is an acclaimed expert at research and sourcing information relating to Fall River history and the life of Lizzie Borden and the Borden murders. Dennis shares his tips, techniques, stories of working on the books, and research tools with us today.
Friday Oct 27, 2023
Friday Oct 27, 2023
In this episode we interview Bill Spencer, author of the new book The Other Fall River Tragedy: The Murder of Bertha Manchester. Out now on Amazon in hard copy and Kindle, as well as the online store for the Fall River Historical Society.
Bertha Manchester was murdered by multiple blows with an ax in her home in Fall River, in the north part of the city, on Memorial Day, 1893, almost exactly 10 months after the Borden murders and one week before the jury was chosen and sequestered for Lizzie Borden’s trial. Did the knowledge of this crime affect the verdict in Lizzie’s case? Let’s investigate.
Friday Aug 04, 2023
Lizzie Borden Podcast, Episode 26: The Melancholy Scion
Friday Aug 04, 2023
Friday Aug 04, 2023
In this episode we are delighted to have PeggyRae Johnson, award winning director and actor, and member of the Voice and Speech Trainers Association. She has multiple voice-overs to her credit, including recordings for Simon and Schuster Publishers. She will perform a dramatic reading of The Melancholy Scion. This story was first published in The Hatchet: A Journal of Lizzie Borden and Victorian Studies in 2007 and is now a part of The Audible Amnesiac and Other Lizzie Borden Girl Detective Mysteries, published in 2018.
Saturday Jul 08, 2023
Saturday Jul 08, 2023
In this episode we interview Dr. Stefani Koorey on her endeavor to raise funds to erect a marker on the grave of Edwin H. Porter, the author of The Borden Tragedy: A History of the Borden Murders, published in 1893.
Saturday Apr 08, 2023
Saturday Apr 08, 2023
In this episode we interview Bill Pavao, history teacher, author, former curator of the Lizzie Borden Bed & Breakfast, and close personal friend of the late Leonard Rebello.
This episode is talk about Len Rebello, a remembrance of sorts, an honor for those who knew him. Len passed away on February 13th of this year. His fame in the Lizzie Borden world was tied to his monumental research book Lizzie Borden: Past and Present, a bible of Borden studies. But Len was much more than this.
Wednesday Jan 18, 2023
Lizzie Borden Podcast, Episode 23: Interview with Ricardo Rebelo
Wednesday Jan 18, 2023
Wednesday Jan 18, 2023
In this episode we are pleased to interview award winning filmmaker and professor of Media Studies and Screenwriting Ricardo Rebelo. Ric directed the PBS documentary Lizbeth a Victorian Nightmare and grew up in Fall River, MA, one block away from the Lizzie Borden house. He offers us his unique perspective on the case and the people involved in telling the story of the crimes.
Thursday Dec 22, 2022
Lizzie Borden Podcast, Episode 22: ”The Forlorn Maggie”
Thursday Dec 22, 2022
Thursday Dec 22, 2022
In this episode we are delighted to have PeggyRae Johnson, award winning director and actor, and member of the Voice and Speech Trainers Association. She has multiple voice-overs to her credit, including recordings for Simon and Schuster Publishers. She will perform a dramatic reading of "The Forlorn Maggie." This is the first Lizzie Borden, Girl Detective Mystery written by Richard Behrens, and it was first published in The Hatchet: A Journal of Lizzie Borden and Victorian Studies in 2008.
Saturday Oct 01, 2022
Saturday Oct 01, 2022
In this episode we interview Rory Raven, author of Wicked Conduct, about the Sarah Cornell murder in Fall River, Massachusetts, in 1832.
Saturday Sep 17, 2022
Lizzie Borden Podcast, Episode 20: Interview with Tom Mauriello
Saturday Sep 17, 2022
Saturday Sep 17, 2022
In this episode we interview Tom Mauriello, retired US special agent, professor of criminal justice and forensic science at the University of Maryland, and accomplished author. Tom has a unique expertise on crime investigation and offers his own theories and thoughts on the Borden case.
Friday Sep 02, 2022
Lizzie Borden Podcast, Episode 19: Interview with Karen Roggenkamp
Friday Sep 02, 2022
Friday Sep 02, 2022
In this episode we interview Karen Roggenkamp, professor of American Literature and Children’s literature at Texas A&M University (Commerce). She is the author of two books, Narrating the News: New Journalism and Literary Genre in Late Nineteenth Century American Newspapers and Fiction, and Sympathy, Madness, and Crime: How Four Nineteenth Century Journalists Made the Newspaper Women’s Business, both published by Kent State University Press. Each book, in part, highlights the Lizzie Borden case through the lens of two renowned journalists: Julian Ralph and Elizabeth Jordan.