Quaker visitors from Lebanon
Thursday, November 9th, 2006Tony and Jocelyne Manasseh from Beirut are on a monthlong visit to the Haverford area, primarily to visit their daughter, Joya, a first-year student at Haverford. After attending Fifth Day Meeting, they stopped by Special Collections and we were very pleased to acquaint them with some primary source materials relating to the Middle East held in our department. One of the items was the annotated watercolor sketchbook from 1875-76 which we acquired in March of this year (see posting from April 2006) depicting the Friends Training Home in Brummana, Lebanon. The Manassehs graciously accepted the invitation to view the sketchbook, but the thrill came when they got to the page showing the layout of the land in 1875 and, pointing to a house on a hill, said “That’s our house.”