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The Spirit behind the Pinnacle Project |
Did you ever wish you had a big rambling house on a pond with fruit trees and gardens – a place you knew and loved and could always return to? Do you fondly remember family gatherings or grad school dinners with great food and stimulating conversation? Are you interested in reducing your living costs and your carbon footprint? Do you want a home in which you can “age in place” and which your children and grandchildren will love to visit? Do you enjoy living around people who are older and younger than you? A group of us had these ideas. We hoped to move to that big house in the country and live there with our friends and their families. After years of dreaming we are making our dreams real (though we will all live in individual private homes). We will be as “green” and as “local” as we can.
We own 120 acres on Post Pond in Lyme, NH. The property is home to a long established hospitality business, Loch Lyme Lodge. We have an old cape, a barn and even a clay tennis court. The Lodge already has 21 rustic cabins with fireplaces, which cabins in the summer are filled with guests including families who have been coming to Loch Lyme decade after decade. Our plan is to build new, green, tightly clustered year-round homes separate from the seasonal cabins.
We are now 23 adults – some are couples, some are single, some have children at home, some have grown children and some have no kids. Some in the Pinnacle group have known each other since college days, others met as we lived here in the Upper Valley and others were guests at Loch Lyme Lodge for many years and wanted to make the Lodge their own.
We work as teachers, therapists, computer people, lawyers, scientists and doctors. Some do fund-raising and some work in the world of food. Some sing and act while others write and direct on the stage. Some are retired and some have young families. Some live here in the Upper Connecticut River Valley and some live farther away, in Massachusetts, Kansas, Maryland, and California. Between us we have people who love gardening, baking, cats, music, cooking, woodworking, dogs, and working with clay and other crafts. As part of our planning process we created a vision statement, which expressed our shared goals. Members subscribe to the vision statement.
We are looking for people to join us. If you would like to find out more about this cooperative cohousing project, please review the various links at our website http://www.pinnacleproject.info. Talk to a member of our outreach group. Come spend some time with us.
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