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Did you ever wish you had a big rambling house on a pond with fruit trees and gardens? Is this house one you love and can always come back to? Would you like to live comfortably while reducing your living costs? Do you want to reduce your environmental footprint? Do you fondly remember the community you found in college and miss the group dinners and stimulating conversation? Would you like to be able to “age in place”?
A group of us had these dreams. We imagined that someday we might move to that big house in the country and live there with friends and their families. Now it is happening. We found Loch Lyme Lodge and are seeking more members to help this dream become reality.
The members of the Pinnacle Project purchased 120 acres on Post Pond in Lyme, NH. The property includes an old cape, a big barn, waterfront, garden space and even clay tennis courts. There are 21 rustic cabins with fireplaces, which are rented to guests in the summer. Some of us plan to live, raise our children, and retire here in Lyme. Others will make Lyme a summer home. We will continue to run the Lodge as a seasonal business as we work through the process of seeing how best to preserve this lovely place and become part of the Lyme community.
Who are we? Some of us have known each other since college days at Oberlin. Some of us live here in the Upper Valley and know each other because our children went to childcare together. Some of us have been guests at Loch Lyme Lodge for many years. Some are couples, some are single, some have children at home, some have grown children and some have no kids. All of us work or study. We are lawyers, professors, therapists, computer people, scientists and doctors. Some do fund-raising. Some are artists and writers. Some of us live here in the Upper Connecticut River Valley and some live farther away, in Massachusetts, Kansas, Maryland, and California.
As part of our planning process we created a Vision Statement listing our essential principles.
There was a very nice article about the Pinnacle Project (PDF) in our local newspaper, the Valley News. In addition, if you would like information about the property as it looks now, just go to http://www.lochlymelodge.com.
If you are interested in cohousing generally, you can start with our What is Cohousing? page. If you’d like to talk to us about the Pinnacle Project, send us an email so we can chat or send you more information. Our email is
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