THE LIZZIE Borden murder case is an American legend immortalized in rhyme: Borden would forever be remembered as the privileged New Englander who "took an ax, and gave her mother forty whacks; when she had seen what she had done, she gave her father forty-one."
Germantown's Ebenezer Maxwell Mansion celebrates the 120th anniversary of the Borden murders with a reading of Sharon Pollock's psychological murder mystery "Blood Relations," a speculative play exploring the uncertainties surrounding the case. "The play powerfully points out that we will never know the real answer, even if we study all the evidence and come up with a compelling theory," said Josh Hitchens, the mansion's creative director of Victorian theater and the original director of the Germantown-based Drama Group's 2009 production of the show. "Only one person knew the answer, and she never told."
