Shit I played one of those 1860s games at the George Ranch once. The local SABR chapter hosted it. It was so fun.

Definitely true, but as a GenXer who spent my whole life in the Midwest, I can say that there are a LOT of 50-somethings in this country who act like it's the 1860s. There are people I went to high school with who were nice, tolerant, progressive, who are now essentially Nazis. It's really grim.

Sad How did fathers abandon children like that - Perhaps blaming them for the death? Yes, we’re lucky to have such a record We’ve also got a photo of their mother as a teenager with her family from the 1860s. Her father was Welsh Romany who, like many Welsh Gypsies, married into a farming family

In the ‘60s—the 1860s—Emily Dickinson wrote an oddly anti-climatic poem about a storm. Maybe that was her point? But I took her “Rock” seriously, fired up the electric guitar amps, & performed “The Wind Began to Rock” as in my life was saved by rock’n’roll. frankhudson.org/2024/10/09/t...

The Wind Began to Rock

Someone on social media this week suggested this conversational opener: “Remember when talking about the weather was just small talk?” I was thinking about this as I worked to finish today’s musica…

Doing family history we discovered that my wife had an ancestor who worked on the railways in Birmingham but was killed after falling from the footplate. 1860s i think.

Discover how concepts of cuteness are connected to literary villains in 1860s sensation fiction like Count Fosco and Lucy Audley. Read Laura Eastlake’s “Playing Cute: Sensation Villainy and the Aesthetics of Small Things in The Woman in White and Lady Audley’s Secret.” Link in Bio.

I hadn't realised great auks existed until this! Great listen shows.acast.com/londonreview... "The great auk was a flightless, populous and reportedly delicious bird, found widely across the rocky outcrops of the North Atlantic. By the 1860s it was extinct."

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I do not know this is accurate, the Montestruc that migrated to the USA in the 1860s did so on the lam from the Spanish government over bombs in tax offices taxing Basque people for teaching their children to speak, read or write that language. Separate charge for each. He was a trained chemist.

not just for modern games i’m currently researching 1860s liverpool for a american civil war espionage have on 1844 the poor parts of liverpool had a population density of 660k per square mile 22 times modern day New York