From The Week Newsletter:
A Massachusetts couple wants to open a Starbucks in the house where Lizzie Borden hacked her parents to death in 1892. Donald Woods and Lee-ann Wilber have already turned the home into a bed and breakfast. The coffee shop, said Woods, would help them transform the site from an attraction based on “blood and guts” to one about “an American family tragedy.” Stefani Koorey, a Borden historian, said a murder scene was a strange place to sip lattes. “It’s such a symbol of yuppie commercialism,” she said.
Lizzie was acquitted. NewMexiKen undestands she then moved to Florida to play golf and look for the real killers.
I’ve always been interested in Lizzie’s story. I actually wanted to stay in the B&B but my husband would have none of it. Maybe I can talk him into just a cup of coffee there sometime, though.