At its end-of-year meeting, December 3, the board of directors of the American Friends of the Lebanon Mountain Trail (AFLMT) approved a $10,000 grant to the Lebanon Mountain Trail Association (LMTA) to support its signposting program. The grant followed on an earlier...
For the fifth consecutive year, AFLMT has been awarded a $5,000 grant from the Rathmann Family Foundation. The board was notified of the most recent grant in June 2016. The mission of the Rathmann Family Foundation is “to promote and support innovation, development...
Many of us Lebanese in the U.S. feel a sense of deep yearning for the beautiful Lebanon depicted in our grandparents’ stories, celebrated in Fairuz’s songs, or experienced in our early childhood and teenage years. We want to experience Lebanon’s charm, re-live its...
In an effort to further spread awareness of the LMT in the U.S. and raise funds to support the Trail, the AFLMT organized and hosted two stand-up comedy shows in March 2013 for Lebanese and Arab communities in Northern Virginia and Michigan, with the amazingly...
On the occasion of the US Independence Day, the US Embassy in Lebanon and the LMTA organized a Community Service Event on Section 10 of the LMT, near the village of Chatine in the caza of Batroun. The event was attended by the U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon Maura...
On June 28, 2012 more than 150 participants attended a “professional mixer” near Detroit at the elegant home of Ms. Joumana Kayrouz, a prominent Detroit-area auto-accident attorney, in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. The event was organized by Mr. Rami Haddad on behalf of...
