Lizzie Borden Society Forum

YAY Stuart!

I stumbled onto a story about his Lizzie Borden Parties in Saratoga, NY, while reading back issues of The New York Times! Our member had actually made the NYTimes! See The Hatchet: Issue Aug/Sept, 2004, Vol. 1, Issue 4.

Hope you're having a HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Stuart!

HAVE A HAPPY ONE STUART !!



Tracy...

Thank you all so very much! I'm flattered by the attention, and am so pleased to have "met" so many terrific folks at this forum. And, to receive a birthday greeting in Lizzie's own handwriting...how can it possibly get any better than that?
I'm honored!
Stuart.

That is a gif format Stuart...

You can save it by right clicking it!

Thanks, Audrey. I spent the day in NYC yesterday. I went to see and off-Broadway show called Souvenir, which made me think of you. It was based upon the life of Florence Foster Jenkins, the society matron/songstress that had a huge following, even though she was an absolutely dreadful singer (a la Mrs. Miller).
Judy Kaye (who has a fabulous voice) learned Mme. Jenkins' "style" down to the last note, and had the audience screaming with laughter. But at her final concert at Carnegie Hall (2,000 people had to be turned away!), she finally realized that people were laughing at her. She never did it out of vanity...but the music she heard in her head is what was important to her. As she said, toward the end of her life: "Some people may say that I couldn't sing, but no on can say that I didn't sing."

I hadn't heard of her. That's a charming story though!

I bet you 2 Capricorns are a lot of fun in *real life*!
They tend to fill up a room when they enter.

That's funny, Kat, That's what I usually say about Geminii! (Twice as much personality for your money, you know!)

Hmm. Leos fill up a room too. I wonder if there's some pattern there?
The corners are filled with quiet and intense Scorpios and Taurus'?

Happy Belated Birthday, Stuart! It was good you could spend the day doing something you enjoy.