Here we are saying farewell after the fabulous summer of 1970, with our Volkswagen camper that would take us to Aix-en-Provence for the year. That was the summer of singing at the tops of our lungs in a tree house that I seem to remember being near the Kerr/Kennedy house. Lots of Gordon memories, maybe because we were living nearby in the Eddy house: David singing Edelweiss by the campfire, sleeping in the VW one night with Melissa Dodge and Vicky Gordon. The kind of freedom we children had was intoxicating, though lots of idyllic memories involved our parents too. On a midnight walk along the water pipe, Ann Gordon at a clearing said to me, 'look up at the full moon, and you can see two people kissing.' I always look for that in a full moon to this day, and it always reminds me of Ann, and of that summer.
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.
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