Crowds Throng to Lebanese Heritage Days Festival

By Christina Georgiou

For more than three and a half decades, the Lebanese Heritage Days festival held annually by Our Lady of Lebanon Maronite Catholic Church on South Fourth and Ferry streets in Downtown Easton has always been popular--and with great Lebanese food, dancing, live music, and lots of things to keep the kids happy and busy, it's no mystery why.

However, the crowd Saturday evening was especially huge, with smiling throngs of people of all ages at times packed nearly shoulder to shoulder inthe church's parking lot where the event is held.

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Both people of Lebanese descent and those of other nationalities and cultures enjoyed an evening filled with food, dancing, music, and fun.

Dance performances by young church members are a highlight of the event, and this year too, there were more dancers than ever, including a huge troupe of middle school age students, and, for the first time, a "reunion" troupe of five young women who, having aged out of the youth troupes, decided to perform for the appreciative crowd.

Once the formal dance routines were over, members of the crowd danced the night away to the strains of live music by Eddie Ossama until midnight.

The 36th Annual Lebanese Heritage Days festival resumes again today, from 11 a.m. until 10 p.m.

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