My next stop was in Fall River--most famous for the Lizzie Borden case. She was acquitted of killing her step mother and father with an ax. The original house is now a bed and breakfast. A tv movie was made in 1975 starring Elizabeth Montgomery (of Bewitched fame) as Lizzie Borden. I have always found this story fascinating and took a tour of the house today. The couch is where her father was killed and the bed shows where the stepmother was killed. It was a large house. One of the dresses Elizabeth Montgomery wore in the movie is on display in the house. How evidence is processed has come a long way. Children said the following rhyme:
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- Lizzie Borden took an axe
- And gave her mother forty whacks.
- When she saw what she had done
- She gave her father forty-one.
PS Emirel Lagasse is from Fall River and I wish he had a restaurant there. I would love to try his food.
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