People From Fall River
see Category:People from Fall River, Massachusetts
- Lizzie Borden (1860-1927), tried and acquitted of the 1892 murder of her father and step-mother in Fall River. She is buried with them and the rest of their immediate family in Oak Grove Cemetery.
- Chris Herren, professional basketball player (Denver Nuggets & Boston Celtics)
- Louis McHenry ("Louie") Howe (1871-1936), political strategist who masterminded Franklin D. Roosevelt's 1932 presidential election. He was the only close friend both FDR and Eleanor Roosevelt shared in common. He is buried in Oak Grove Cemetery.
- Emeril Lagasse, celebrity chef
- Marc Megna, American and Canadian football player
- Hank the Angry Drunken Dwarf (Henry Joseph Nasiff Jr.), entertainer
- Tom Lawlor, professional mixed martial artist
- Chris Santos, celebrity chef
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Famous quotes containing the words fall river, people, fall and/or river:
“Lizzie Borden took an axe
And gave her mother forty whacks;
When she saw what she had done,
She gave her father forty-one.”
—Anonymous. Late 19th century ballad.
The quatrain refers to the famous case of Lizzie Borden, tried for the murder of her father and stepmother on Aug. 4, 1892, in Fall River, Massachusetts. Though she was found innocent, there were many who contested the verdict, occasioning a prodigious output of articles and books, including, most recently, Frank Spiering’s Lizzie (1985)
“When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it’s your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not.”
—Georgia O’Keeffe (1887–1986)
“We shall walk in velvet shoes:
Wherever we go
Silence will fall like dews
On white silence below.
We shall walk in the snow.”
—Elinor Wylie (1885–1928)
“The mountain may be approached more easily and directly on horseback and on foot from the northeast side, by the Aroostook road, and the Wassataquoik River; but in that case you see much less of the wilderness, none of the glorious river and lake scenery, and have no experience of the batteau and the boatman’s life.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)