Interview with Dan Boone, Deceased
Interview with Dan Boone, Deceased This colonial account features the life of Daniel Boone, frontiersman and pioneer. Photography...
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Edgar David Boshart
- Jan 26, 2021
- 1 min
The Illinois Country: He Speaks the Regular Way
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPu3v4cCbu4 This narrative focuses on the pre-revolutionary war period in American History that saw...
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edgardavidboshart
- May 1, 2020
- 1 min
Pioneer Trail Continued: Prayers for Scalps
America's early colonization brought drastically different initial opinions and interactions between the settlers and the native...
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Edgar David Boshart
- Nov 26, 2019
- 1 min
Cowboy and Indian (Part 1 of The American Pioneer Trail)
https://youtu.be/FEsQD4Q1_6M (Video, 10 minutes) tap arrow photo (Part 1, Introduction) The beginning of an exploration of the...
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edgardavidboshart
- Apr 19, 2019
- 3 min
Last Voyages of an Amishman and a Sailor - Menno's Folks (Blog 8)
https://youtu.be/eN8jc-5Wy8I Menno’s Folks. The Mennonites are a pie of Christian Anabaptist denominations named after a Frisian priest —...
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edgardavidboshart
- Apr 5, 2019
- 2 min
Jeb (Ed) the Not-so-Amish Amishman
He was charming one moment, but coming out of a passing shadow Jeb can be dark and intense, aloof and judgmental in a single glance. His...
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edgardavidboshart
- Dec 10, 2018
- 4 min
Vietnam Redo: Emperors and Gods
(Hue, Vietnam, part 2) Emperors and gods are sometimes (usually!) indistinguishable. In Asia, and especially looming China, central...
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edgardavidboshart
- Mar 9, 2018
- 4 min
Between Earth and the Universe: Isfahan's Royal Mosque
It's early morning, late September. I stride across Meidan-e Shah Square (the massive Royal Square) in old town Esfahan (or Isfahan),...
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edgardavidboshart
- Mar 2, 2018
- 3 min
Half of the World: Isfahan
In the wilderness about 200 miles south of Tehran is a place called “Half of the World.” Ishfahan, twice the capital of Persia, was the...
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edgardavidboshart
- Feb 5, 2018
- 6 min
Great Monarchs of Persia - Events of Biblical Proportion
Tomb of Cyrus the Great (all photos are my own) “O man, whoever you are and wherever you come from, for I know you will come, I am Cyrus...
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edgardavidboshart
- Jan 19, 2018
- 5 min
First Town on Earth: Yazd, Iran
One of the oldest towns in the world displays some of the finest Persian architecture in central Asia
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edgardavidboshart
- Jan 12, 2018
- 3 min
Eternal Flame - Tower of Death
Modern Iran is certainly a paragon of Islam but the country’s culture also has deep roots in the ancient mostly unrecorded Zoroastrian...
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edgardavidboshart
- Jan 5, 2018
- 5 min
Persian Fire from Heaven: Zarathustra
Do human beings (living things) have real “free will”? The philosophical debate over this question probably will continue eternally even...
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edgardavidboshart
- Dec 2, 2017
- 3 min
Goodbye Tehran
While Tehran has much human drama to keep a first-time or umpteenth-time visitor entertained, the heart of Iran still beats in the...
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edgardavidboshart
- Nov 17, 2017
- 4 min
The Lion of Persia
Whose head is that? The Lion and Sun (شیر و خورشید, Shir o Khorshid) emblem (holding a shamshir, scimitar) remained the official...
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edgardavidboshart
- Oct 27, 2017
- 3 min
The Bazaar of Wares and Religion
Iran/Persia is the torn heart of Central Asia (Asia Minor). Secular China is the body, Byzantine Russia the head, the Hindu Indian...
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edgardavidboshart
- Oct 20, 2017
- 3 min
Tehran: The Many Become One
Cosmopolitan Smog - view from Tochal Ski Mountain Tehran, the largest city and capital of the Islamic Republic of Iran, fans out below...
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edgardavidboshart
- Oct 12, 2017
- 6 min
Faces of Iran, an Introduction (and Special Comment)
This account of Iran's people, land, arts, and history begins simply with a collection of faces -- of citizens going about their daily...
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Edgar David Boshart
- Sep 7, 2017
- 2 min
Going to Persia
I am travelling to Iran to explore some of the antiquities and historical highlights of the great Persian Empire with a small tour group acc
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edgardavidboshart
- Aug 17, 2017
- 2 min
The Miracle Guy
The Archangel Michael I arrived in Ponta Delgada, from Boston, at 6:30 am Saturday morning in late May, but there was no room at the inn...
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