Originally posted February 23, 2010 but worthy of re-blogging. A lot has happened in the past decade, however, Fall River remains pretty much the same.
Fall River remains one of those cities best viewed from a distance. Up close her blemishes neither beckon nor embrace. Lizzie Borden, on the other hand, forever beckons, blemishes and all.
From a historical perspective, Fall River is as associated with Lizzie Borden as Dallas is to the JFK assassination. Both horrific and shocking events, both forever embedded in American history.
The Lizzie Borden story is not just about a 32 year old spinster who wielded a hatchet, (let me repeat that – HATCHET) on a highly humid August 4th day, but is a case about class structure in a stratified society with the poor deferring to the power and control of the founding families. It is the incredulity of the circumstances of such a heinous crime in broad daylight with suspicion of a Borden – and the younger daughter at that – which gives this Victorian patricide its…
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Tattered Fabric: Fall River's Lizzie Borden 