Stanley and Ann Kerr slides - 1950s and 1960s

 Stanley wants some coffee

 Elsa in the background - with students?

 No caption required

 John and Susie - Dodge house?

 Ann and Susie

Landis gathering - feel the fun!

Kerr house

1965 when Grandma Mag & Ann Kerr taught Landis, Dodge & Kerr children how to paint

In the summer of 1965, Margaret Foster Hutton - Joan Landis' mother - visited Ainab and taught the kids to paint along with Ann Kerr.  They gave us various art classes on the veranda of the "Scott" house. Mag Hutton was the grandmother of Chris, Joshua and Ethan Landis. These photos are from her photo album of that summer that Joshua Landis inherited. (Posted by Joshua Landis in May 2016)

From left to right:
Simon Dodge, Nina Dodge, Joshua Landis, Ethan Landis, Simon Dodge, Suzie Kerr, John Kerr Mag Hutton, Doris Dodge and Ann Kerr, who is pregnant with Steve Kerr.

From Left to Right: This was the Art Exhibit following our painting efforts
Simon Dodge (striped red shirt), Ann Kerr (pregnant with Steve who will be destined to play basketball), Melissa Dodge, Bayard Dodge (Hand at mouth), Chris Landis (tall), Ethan Landis, Joshua Landis, Suzie Kerr (green dress), Nina Dodge

Some of the fine art work of the summer of 1965
From Left to Right
Front Row: Simon Dodge, John Kerr, Bayard Dodge, Ethan Landis, Joshua Landis
Back Row: Nina Dodge, Melissa Dodge, Christ Landis

With the donkey, which was used to bring vegetables up from the village of Ainab to sell to the mountain top dwellers.

From Left to Right

Ethan Landis, Joshua Landis, Girl with the donkey from Ainab village, Nina Dodge, Melissa Dodge, John Kerr and Suzie Kerr.

Watching tennis.  I have forgotten the girl to the far left. She was up for part of the summer visiting one of the families. She kissed me. Bayard Dodge, Doris Dodge, David Dodge, Margaret Hutton, Ann Kerr, Suzie Kerr

Ethan Landis climbing snowbar tree with our cardinal, Yousef Affendi in the foreground. Ethan has this cage still hanging in his house in Washington DC.

Building a Lean to. Joshua Landis looking under a rock. Simon Dodge, Chris Landis, Bayard Dodge, and Ethan Landis

Margaret Hutton either building a garden, arranging a bouquet or stripping thyme off stems.

Introduction

Dear Ainab people and members of the old American Community in Lebanon. I have started this blog because a number of Ainabees, educators and members of Lebanon's old American Community have said they would be interested in trying to record some of the history of the community before the older generation are no longer with us. We can add posts and photos that will fill out some of the history of the US community and its families. Mostly, it is simply to have a bit of fun. Best, Joshua Landis

 ?, Bayard Dodge, Doris Dodge, David Dodge, Margaret Hutton, Ann Kerr, Suzie Kerr watching tennis in Ainab in 1965

Joan Hutton Landis hamming it up on the tennis court sometime in the mid-1960s.

Joan Landis in Beirut in 1964 - She and Doris Dodge would dress up like this to go shopping in town!

Dodge House on Rue Bliss in Beirut, 1965