This blog was started by Joshua Landis in 2015 to commemorate the American community in Lebanon and particularly of Ainab. He grew up in this hilltop community that was started in 1932-33 by five American University of Beirut families: the Dodd, Close, Leavitt, Kerr, and Crawford families. Later families included: Landis, Crow, Dodge, Eddy, Scott, Gordon and Kennedy.
Other families who summered in Shemlan, just below Ainab, include: Dorman, Stoltzfus, Smith, Van Dyck.
Dorothy Kerr Jessup mentions that her parents - Stanley and Elsa Kerr - were on sabbatical in the US the year the Ainab property was purchased. I think this photo of them was taken that year - though I always assumed it had been taken in Ainab!
Susie, Can you provide both their names and a little history? Who were they? This photo does seem to have been taken in the US because the wood used for their bench is white birch, which isn't found in Lebanon.
Susie, Can you provide both their names and a little history? Who were they? This photo does seem to have been taken in the US because the wood used for their bench is white birch, which isn't found in Lebanon.
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