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The Pioneer Trail (continued): Virginia Dare and Rebecca (Pocahontas), Part I

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 Americans (Indians) up and down the northeast coast. Best if viewed in High Definition/Stereo....... (large screen devices, computer, TV) #AmericanHistory #Indians #Settlers #Colonists #MarthasVineyard #NewEngland #fineartphotography #photography #travel

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The Pioneer Trail: Cowboys, Indians, Pilgrims

edgardavidboshart

Mar 26, 2020
1 min

The Pioneer Trail: Cowboys, Indians, Pilgrims

Pioneer Trail, Prologue, March 25, 2020 (tap image) This is the first of along series of short video-blogs (with lots of photos and pictures) covering a history of the pioneers and Native Americans across North America. Subscribe to the Youtube channel if you wish to follow along at your own leisure. Video URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgPrdDYLROE #NorthAmericanhistory #pioneers #indians #NativeAmericans #photography #travel

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Josh Slocum: North Mountain, Nova Scotia

edgardavidboshart

Sep 20, 2019
1 min

Josh Slocum: North Mountain, Nova Scotia

This is the last blog of a series of 16 blogs and YouTube videos, introducing Joshua Slocum, first person to solo sail around the world in 1895-1898 (45,000 miles). This is just the beginning of the Last Journey of an Amishman, but we will take a detour in the coming winter months. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGp1870coDQ #sailor #Fundy #NovaScotia #sailing #BayofFundy #sea #ghost #worldhistory #photography #NorthAmerica #travel

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Journey of an Amishman (continues): Bay of Fundy (New Brunswick)

edgardavidboshart

Jul 23, 2019
2 min

Journey of an Amishman (continues): Bay of Fundy (New Brunswick)

Youtube video (Blog 14) 5 min. Jeb Elison did not tarry long in Fredericton. Curiosity drove him first downriver to the large New Brunswick city and port of St. John, and then he backtracked along the shores of peaceful Passamaquoddy Bay to Black's Harbor and St. Andrews in the west. St. John, like Fredericton, had been another Loyalist town. British troops were dispatched through the port during the short War of 1812. Today, American tourists fling dollars at these traitoro

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Jeb's Journey to Canada's Maritimes: New Brunswick

Blog 10: Josh Slocum, his Father and Nova Scotia

edgardavidboshart

Apr 29, 2019
3 min

Solo Around the World, Josh!

Again, I offer a half-hearted disclaimer. The following is not an entirely fictional or non-fictional account. Jeb (my alter ego) and Joshua Slocum met in a kind of dream, one summer morning, in 2011. The Josh specter (ghost) was not the biblical Joshua— a spy in ancient Canaan and Moses’ guy to go to during the Great Exodus. But there was that biblical thread again, always jingling Jeb’s nerves when his guard wasn’t up. No, in this dream of Jeb’s there arose the ghost of

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Last Voyages of an Amishman and a Sailor - Menno's Folks (Blog 8)

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 — Menno Simons (1496-1561). Simons, through his writings, articulated and formalized the teachings of earlier Swiss founders who espoused a relatively simple earth-based faith in Jesus Christ premised on the collaboration of Jesus with his Disciples. The "Wiedertäufer" (Again-Baptists, or Anabaptists) became part of a broad reactionary moveme

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edgardavidboshart

Mar 21, 2019
2 min

Final Journey: Old and Young

While an older gentleman (sans gentle) now, I think myself young and ageless. However, I am reminded on every side that I am “mature,” so to speak. Not mature in the sense that I have great wisdom and respect from my peers and community or especially from the younger generation, but “mature” in the polite (“political”) sense (that is, as the posted signs suggest: give this man a discount or reserved seat on the bus or metro). [Perhaps such socially instructed behaviors

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edgardavidboshart

Feb 19, 2019
2 min

Final Journey: Is Anything Real?

----------- Video (5 min.) Tap and Nap _______________ In the parlance of our world’s scientists, we now accept generally that materials are nothing more, nor less, than energy. In physics, color is a sense perception (a combination of frequencies). My retina has three kinds of color receptors, most sensitive to the primary colors of red, green and blue, respectively. Stimulating combinations of these cells produce all color perception. But I (we) “see” more than that interpl

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edgardavidboshart

Feb 12, 2019
3 min

Last Journey: What is Color?

Video (6 min.) click and stick ...[I am still working to improve on these presentations to make them more pleasing to hear as well as to interact with. Suggestions on improvements needed are welcome, and comments on the ideas or places presented are also appreciated]. ...... I am a traveller, just as you are. My journey was and will be different from yours, but there are things, places, experiences and thoughts we share in a lifetime. We —you and I— live together on a

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Beginning of the Last Journey
Prologue 1

edgardavidboshart

Jan 30, 2019
2 min

Beginning of the Last Journey Prologue 1

ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uTRd5f9Q2g&t=80s My path courses along the edges of the battle(s), like that of a war correspondent. I strive to avoid the mayhem where I can and turn my gaze to what is still left of the real planet, untainted and reflective of the past best achievements of my neighbors. In this tale, I aim to illustrate my thoughts with images/photographs that can add a dimension — using the very media that otherwise is drowning my fellow humans. The photo

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edgardavidboshart

Jan 28, 2019
3 min

Cuba Multi-Media - Update

I hope to present my blogs in a more personal way going forward, so as to make it a little more interactive and entertaining. Links will be attached to this blog allowing you, my subscribers and whoever is just curious, to view the multi-media blog on YouTube (my channel, PhotoSpeak Productions) or possibly also using other formats where possible (such as MP4 recordings). This is still a transition in progress, so I expect there will be significant improvements along the wa

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Vietnam’s Mekong River (II): A Day in the Life — The Sun Always Rises

edgardavidboshart

Dec 20, 2018
4 min

Vietnam’s Mekong River (II): A Day in the Life — The Sun Always Rises

I expected the Mekong River jungle to be relatively silent. But it is not. In a humid, green undergrowth, I stride to the sound of distant thunder. A gasoline motor, at first just a low drone, eventually chugs by on some hidden tributary of the larger river, probably carrying locals going about their daily chores, or hauling lumber, or indulging tourists. My view is obscured by the ferns, palms, mangroves, and nature generally. Other interruptions on the path include a m

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Vietnam's Mekong Delta (I) - Hot, Wet, Green

edgardavidboshart

Dec 17, 2018
3 min

Vietnam's Mekong Delta (I) - Hot, Wet, Green

"Ceaselessly the river flows, and yet the water is never the same, while in the still pools the shifting foam gathers and is gone, never staying for a moment. Even so is man and his habitation." -- Kamo no Chomei (poet, 1155-1216) The Mekong Delta’s tributaries in southern Vietnam, between Ho Chi Minh City and the Cambodian border (Kampuchea), transfer huge volumes of water drained from the Himalayas and passing almost 5,000 kilometers (2.5 thousand miles) through China, My

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Vietnam Redo: Water and Buffalo in the North Country

edgardavidboshart

Nov 23, 2018
3 min

Vietnam Redo: Water and Buffalo in the North Country

It is finally time to leave Hanoi, the city, for a gambit in the countryside. But it takes time, as the metropolis is far-flung, hanging on like a biting gnat, dousing the air with vague pollutants, funneling vehicles through multiplying passageways and asphalt lures. “Development” is everywhere, much more so than I remember 10 years ago during my first visit to Vietnam. Where there was a rice field years ago, today there are apartments and western-style manufacturing facil

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Vietnam Redo: Post-War Flowers, Fruit and Rice

edgardavidboshart

Nov 6, 2018
2 min

Vietnam Redo: Post-War Flowers, Fruit and Rice

Vietnam today is, of course, a different place than in the previous century. Changes have been significant in government, infrastructure, morale and population assimilation. Wealth is available and products that wealthy people want is visible in the shops. Urbanization is underway up and down the country. But many people are still poor. Nevertheless, they labor, mostly with a smile. Evidence of their work is everywhere. Every area of Hanoi is packed with sellers of good

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The Pioneer Trail (continued): Virginia Dare and Rebecca (Pocahontas), Part I

Pioneer Trail Continued: Prayers for Scalps

Dismal Wilderness

The Pioneer Trail: Cowboys, Indians, Pilgrims

Pioneer Trail: the Prairies (Continued)

Josh Slocum: North Mountain, Nova Scotia

Journey of an Amishman (continues): Bay of Fundy (New Brunswick)

Jeb's Journey to Canada's Maritimes: New Brunswick

Blog 10: Josh Slocum, his Father and Nova Scotia

Solo Around the World, Josh!

Last Voyages of an Amishman and a Sailor - Menno's Folks (Blog 8)

Final Journey: Old and Young

Final Journey: Is Anything Real?

Last Journey: What is Color?

Beginning of the Last Journey Prologue 1

Cuba Multi-Media - Update

Vietnam’s Mekong River (II): A Day in the Life — The Sun Always Rises

Vietnam's Mekong Delta (I) - Hot, Wet, Green

Vietnam Redo: Water and Buffalo in the North Country

Vietnam Redo: Post-War Flowers, Fruit and Rice