Ainab and the American Community in Lebanon

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.

Friday, April 30, 2021

Dodds and Dodges

Here's a solo picture of the Dodd and Dodge girls in the late 1960s. By then, the Peter Dodds were summering in Shemlan. The family often visited the Ainab hilltop for tennis and bonfire evenings. Nina occasionally came down to babysit. Here, we seem to be cracking pine-nuts (snobars) from the famous umbrella pines of Ainab.