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| Stanley Kerr and Bill Eddy having a good laugh over a game of chess in Ainab, Carmen in background |
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.
Monday, October 20, 2025
Ainab photos by Mary Eddy: 1955-7
Mary Eddy's 28 photo albums (1917-1964) will be archived at AUB. They are particularly interested in the Ainab American community. The photos I posted here do not have the folks identified so any names that can be supplied would be wonderful. (The numbers in the captions are Album and Page locations and can be used to reference the image).
19.71 Bill Eddy on left
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| 19.77a Bill Eddy far right |
| 19.72a back row on right: Billy and Dora Close |
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| 19.82b Carmen Eddy center rear |
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| 19.82c luncheon |
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| 19.82 Carmen Eddy far left |
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| 19.83a Mary Eddy on left |
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| 19.83d Bill Eddy at left |
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| 19.83b Bill Eddy at left |
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| 19.90a left Marty Close, third from left Dora Close |
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| 22.03a far left, Cita Eddy Furman |
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| 22.03b Bill Eddy at left |
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| 22.31a Bill Eddy and children |
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| 22.31b Bill Eddy at tennis court |
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| 22.31c children at tennis court |
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| 24.14a Bill Eddy and children |
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| 24.05a children playing |
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| 24.13a family group |








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