Living in Iran
There is a Mediterranean food restaurant across the street from the Garnett church building called Shish-Kabobs. I have enjoyed their gyros, lamb musaka and hospitality for the last several years. I did not know until a few days ago that it is owned by a man from Iran, named Fred. Meeting him this week brought back memories of when my family lived in Isfahan, Iran in the mid 1970s.
Picture #1 my family in front of the Azadi Tower (Freedom Tower) in Tehran that was built by the Shah in 1971 to celebrate 2,500 years of the Persian Empire. It was previously called the Shahyad Tower (meaning “Remembrance of the Shahs” (Kings) but was renamed in 1979 after the revolution.)
Picture #2 Heflin and Navaie families on a picnic. The scruffy-headed blond girl in the front is me. The Navaies lived down the street from us in Isfahan and were our adoptive Iranian family.
Picture #3 my brothers, Heath and Houston, and me on a monument at Persepolis. No, I don’t know where my pants were. Persepolis was the capital of the second Persian dynasty and was began during the reign of Darius the Great. The ruins were excavated in the 1930s.
May 24th, 2007 at 8:14 pm
What part of standing on relicts that are thousands of years old did we think was ok? I haven’t seen those pictures in years.
May 24th, 2007 at 9:32 pm
It’s amazing what people will do when no one is looking, isn’t it?