Little Books all in a Row

Many of you know my love affair with my little books, brown lunch bags, board books, chip board, and anything else I can get my hands on. I have been fascinated with Lizzie Borden for many years and a highlight of my life was staying at the Lizzie Borden Bed and Breakfast in 2007. The other day I showed you my little book centered around Lizzie Borden which I have never posted on this blog.

In Fall River, MA, a young woman is accused of killing her father and stepmother. She was a Sunday School teacher and considered well to do in those days. Her father was known to keep a tight fist on the family money and wanted to stay in town near his properties.

He had two daughters, Lizzie and Emma, from a former marriage. Mother died young and Father remarried. Emma resented Abby Borden. Abby is the only mother Lizzie relatively knew. As the years went by Lizzie traveled to Europe and eventually wanted to move to the "top of the hill" where those with money lived. Father refused.

Lizzie Borden took an ax

and gave her father 41 whacks.....

or so the little song goes.

Did Lizzie do it?

Were both sisters in on it? Or were both souls lost?  Lizzie Borden took an ax and gave her mother 40 whacks, when the job was neatly done, she gave her father 41.