Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Charlottesville ?

[Velma Kahn (velma]

On Tuesday, March 28, 1995, Eric Nagy wrote:       
>    I am a former Muir Commons resident (Davis, California).  I will likely
>    move to Charlottesville Virginia within a year and am curious if there is
>   a coho group in that area.  If you know of one (or are IN one) please let
> me know.  I would love to find another community to join! 

I'm not aware of any cohousing groups in the strict sense in the
Charlottesville area, although it stands to reason there must be at least
one forming group.  The updated list of groups around the country is due to
be published in the next issue of the CoHousing Journal (well, I guess it's
has been published, I think the mailing party is today).  I know Don and
Bill and the regional editors have made a special effort this time to get
everything updated and corrected.

Charlottesville is a region abounding in intentional communities.  Just off
the top of my head, Twin Oaks, the flagship of the income sharing
communities, is 35 miles away, as well as Acorn, another newer smaller
income sharing community.  Shannon Farm, a large community of folks who own
their own homes within the community--not on the coho model, but not by any
means totally separate from coho (not that I've lived there personally) has
been there for a long time very near Charlottesville.  I believe Shannon is
full (but don't take my word for it), but a group of ex-Shannonites and
others recently purchased land and started creating Deer Rock Community, on
the Shannon model.  I'm personally involved with a forming community,
Abundant Dawn, that will either end up in the general
Charlottesville/Gordonsville area or in southwestern Virginia.  (Abundant
Dawn will be a mix of income-sharing and not-so-income-sharing subgroups,
rural, with a strong interest in healing work, service work, sustainable
living.)  Those are just the ones that I personally happen to know about.

The new Communities Directory should be in the bookstores in a few weeks.
Or you could email the Fellowship for Intentional Community at
5012004 [at] mcimail.com for ordering info or for community referrals (include
your mailing address--they tend to reply by snail mail).  For info about
Deer Rock and probably other Virginia communities, I think I would email Dan
Questenberry 4048211 [at] mcimail.com.

Hope this is helpful.

Velma Kahn
velma [at] csn.org