Vietnam Redo: The Way to Hue ("way")
The Perfume River (Sông Hương or Hương Giang; 香江) crosses the city of Huế, in the central Vietnamese province of Thừa Thiên-Huế Province....
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edgardavidboshart
Nov 30, 20183 min read
Vietnam Redo (part 7): Sailin' Ha Long (on the Bay)
I’ve spent a night on Halong Bay, on the coast of North Vietnam, twice. Both times, I thoroughly enjoyed the experience — (1) hauling...
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edgardavidboshart
Nov 23, 20183 min read
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...
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edgardavidboshart
Nov 6, 20182 min read
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,...
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edgardavidboshart
Nov 2, 20185 min read
Vietnam Redo (part 4): War Paint
At one time, in the last century, Americans dabbed charcoal-tinted war paint on their faces and attempted to subdue a combined imperial...
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edgardavidboshart
Oct 26, 20182 min read
Vietnam Redo (part 3): Long and Tall
I have always wanted to ask a puppet, in private, what it is like to be enslaved and forced to do its master’s bidding, subject to being...
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edgardavidboshart
Oct 12, 20183 min read
Bight of Kennebunk: Travel Destination
“The swallow has set her six young on the rail, and looks seaward.” James Lee’s Wife (1864, pt 3 st.1), Robert Browning Before Autumn...
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edgardavidboshart
Aug 6, 20181 min read
Earth II, in the Galaxy X
Sunflower "Bring me the sunflower, crazed with the love of light” Eugenio Montale Ah Sun-flower! weary of time, Who countest the steps of...
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edgardavidboshart
Apr 13, 20185 min read
Chappaquiddick (and a Senator)
A movie just released to the public, titled "Chappaquiddick", presents a version of events that linked now deceased Ted Kennedy, a former...
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edgardavidboshart
Jul 11, 20173 min read
Graves Beside a River: the Little Bighorn
I normally am not so affected emotionally when visiting a war memorial that the experience lodges in the back of my mind for months,...
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