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An annual tradition came to a prematurely abrupt end. After sustaining damage sometime around Christmas Day, the Illuminated Forest at Ken Reid Conservation Area was closed to the public.
MARTINSBURG—The Tall Cedars of Lebanon Shenandoah Forest No. 150 on Thursday evening, presented a basket of stuffed bears to Jay Sine, acting director of Women and Children’s Services with West
Majestic cedar trees towered over dozens of Lebanese Christians gathered outside a small mid-19th century chapel hidden in a mountain forest to celebrate the Feast of the Transfiguration, the miracle where Jesus Christ, on a mountaintop, shined with light before his disciples. The sunset’s yellow light coming through the cedar branches bathed the leader of Lebanon’s Maronite Church, Patriarch Beshara al-Rai, as he stood at a wooden podium and delivered a sermon. For Lebanon’s Christians, the cedars are sacred, these tough evergreen trees that survive the mountain’...
The Illuminated Forest features hundreds of trees adorned with thousands of twinkling lights
Simone Fattal’s “The Manifestations of the Voyage” vividly brought to life the interconnections among her artistic media and literary subjects.