Audrey @ Wed Apr 06, 2005 7:48 am wrote:I wander if the archives are working? Maybe the last time Stephani went to River Falls she took it with her....
The archives are a treasure -- the Fort Knox of Bordenology. I'm still waiting for the Rebello to come, but I suspect the archives here are at least as useful as that valuable book.
Of course it's essential to read the other resources available on this site: the free, searchable copies of hard-to-find texts on the case, the transcripts of testimony, the post-mortem reports, and the wills of various people involved in the case. But the archives of the forum discussions are an irreplaceable resource.
For years an expert panel of brilliant, persistent people have been asking tough questions, testing the evidence, applying their knowledge of forensics and human nature and nineteenth-century Fall River to this baffling mystery. And you can get the benefit of their discussions
for free. Doesn't cost a penny -- all you need is a computer with an Internet connection.
The best information in the world does you no good unless it's well organized, so this archive offers several ways to read. You can browse by topic, if you prefer, or instantly search the archive by any term you want. There are 1256 documents that mention the word "Lizzie," but only 44 where you'll find the word "damn." (Just goes to show you how patient the experts really are. I've said "damn" about this case a lot more than that.)
You can save threads to your own computer to annotate or search when you don't have an Internet connection -- very useful if your computer has slow, expensive dialup access. If you'd rather read offline, you can even print the discussions.
For more than a hundred years, people have been puzzling over the mysterious happenings in that silent house on Second Street. Occasionally, after years of solitary brooding, someone would publish a new theory--one that might shed a little new light on the case, but that invariably skipped over some evidence. In this forum, several dozen of the world's top experts on the case have debated, bringing together external sources and their own knowledge. No Borden scholar in history has had the benefit of this kind of brainstorming. Not Edmund Pearson, not Edward Radin, not Victoria Lincoln, not Angela Carter. But
you can have it for free. All you have to do is use it.
Lynn
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