A number of our family antiques and original farm furnishings were on loan this month at The Center for Visual and Performing Arts to help performer Leslie Goddard recreate the turn of the century, modest Massachusetts home of accused hatchet murderess Lizzie Borden.

Friend and history buff colleague Goddard brought her one-woman play “The Life and Legend of Lizzie Borden” for a week of eight performances presented on the Theatre at the Center stage at The Center for Visual and Performing Arts, 1040 Ridge Road in Munster.

Rather than having the staff dismantle and load up Dad’s farm truck with rope rugs, antiques and farm set pieces, I decided it was just as savvy to leave most of the pieces on stage to be included for the backdrop of my new “Thanksgiving From the Farm Cooking Show” I’m

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