There are Morses in them there bogs...

[nbcatlover]

From today's New Bedford Standard-Times:

"People are always asking me if I miss it," says Ann Liza Morse Martin-Rogers, 70, speaking by phone from her mobile home in St. Petersburg, Fla.
"But I tell them I don't miss it because I'm writing it. I'm living it again."
What Mrs. Rogers is writing, and thus reliving, is her life in Plymouth County, the center of the cranberry growing world in the '40s. More...

Balance of article:
http://www.southcoasttoday.com/daily/01 ... living.htm

[augusta]

Interesting post, nb. I was hoping to see a reference to Uncle John, but it was still a good article. Thanks for sharing it!

[nbcatlover]

I dated a Morse some years back from this area, and I remember him telling me there were many interesting stories in his family history.

Unfortunately, this was prior to my interest in the Borden case and he has passed away. Another golden opportunity lost.

While he was not a bad looking man, he had more charm than beauty. He was also a true romantic. Wonder what single Uncle John was like in his youth.

[Kat]

There's a story that he liked to talk about the supernatural with the past mayor of ? (Was it New Bedford?)
And that in his younger days a fortune teller was about to tell his fortune but balked, telling him he didn't want to know.
But then there was the story that a psychic had foretold where bloody buried handkerchiefs would be found and Morse claimed that it never happened- not foretold, not dug up, no such handkerchiefs.
3 paranormal stories/gossip involving Morse...
Oh and he supposedly kept a boat (in New Bedford?)

[nbcatlover]

I thought the boat was in Fairhaven, but that may have been in years after the murder.