An arts professor and a master of meditation, Alan Scherr led the Synchronicity Foundation in Nelson County as a spiritual oasis, a New Age wonderland. He and his daugther, Naomi, were killed Nov. 26 when gunman opened fired at Oberoi Hotel, where they were having a late dinner.
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