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Upon This Quiet Life

A blog about Shakespeare, Civil War history, baseball and maybe even a bit of quantum mechanics now and again

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Falstaff Comes to Louisville

From the Louisville Courier-Journal, April 29, 1867 Louisville Theater – Jolly Old Jack Falstaff will make his debut at this...

Another New Ballclub in Louisville

From the Louisville Daily Courier, August 28, 1866 New Base-Ball Club. – Base-ball seems to be all the rage. Another club was formed...

Hang On, Playing Baseball Causes What?

From the Louisville Courier-Journal, August 24, 1866 To Base-ball Players. Physicians in Cincinnati give it as their opinion that at the...

The Fifteenth Kentucky at Bacon Creek

From the Cleveland Leader, December 30th, 1861 OUR FORCES IN KENTUCKY – We enjoyed an interview with Lieut. Northrop, of Captain...

Shakespeare Festival in Cincinnati

From the Louisville Courier-Journal, March 23, 1884 The programme of the Cincinnati Dramatic Festival has been decided as follows:...

Col. Noah Cartwright

From the Louisville Courier-Journal, December 9, 1896 Pushing His Claims for the Position of Pension Agent. Among the visitors to the...

All Hit, No Pitch in Louisville

From the Louisville Daily Courier, August 6, 1866 Base-Ball – An interesting game of base-ball was played on Saturday evening on the...

Baseball in Louisville, 1866

From the Louisville Courier-Journal, April 4, 1866 Base-ball – This admirable and healthy sport will be re-inaugurated by the Louisville...

Lieutenant Colonel Joseph R. Snider

Joseph Rufus Snider was born near Mt. Eden in Shelby County on June 10, 1831. When the war broke out, recruited most of Company B, the...

Who Wrote Shakespeare?

[I hesitated before reprinting this article, since I don’t want to start a discussion of the “authorship debate” on this blog. To be...

Louisville Has a New Baseball Team!

From the Louisville Courier-Journal, April 14, 1865 The Louisville Base-ball Club has been organized with the following officers: Alex....

A Letter from Lieutenant-Colonel Jouett

From the Louisville Courier-Journal, April 8, 1862 The Loyal People of Shelbyville, Tenn. – We were favored yesterday with the perusal of...

The New York Excelsiors Win

From the Louisville Daily Courier, July 21, 1860 [Judging from this report in the Daily Courier, there were already baseball fans in...

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