Cohousing-L Mailing List: Looking for an intern

[Tom Hammer (thammer302]

At Concord Village in beautiful Chester County, PA we
are considering enlisting the help of an intern.  (I
have had the luxury of being able to work most of the
summer for our community, but now that school has
started, I am back at work.)
 
An intern might be someone who presently lives in
cohousing but has recently graduated from college or
someone who has recently retired.  An intern could
also be a student in a university or college majoring
in land use, land planning, community organizing, or a
similar major.  The intern could help both our
community and our sister forming community, also in
Chester County.  We are both in similar stages of
building the group and looking for land or doing
research on the feasibility of land we have found.
 
We would expect to offer free room and board and gas
money and directions in how to achieve what we need
help with as well as advice from professionals.  The
successful applicant intern would need to have a
working car, be self-motivated, relatively
independent, and knowledgeable about some aspects of
starting a community or highly motivated to learn. 
 
If you would like to experience a different part of
the country and help two cohousing communities through
a critical stage of their development toward success,
please email me or call one of our members, Lydia
Rehrman, at 717 529 3889 during the day or between
8:15 and 10 p.m. Lydia can also be reached at 
<lrehrman [at] yahoo.com>.  If you have suggestions for how
to help us find someone, feel free to chime in also,
either on- or off-list.  Or, please pass the word.
 
We are halfway between New York City and Washington,
half an hour from Philadelphia and an hour from
Baltimore and within 45 minutes of several major
universities and colleges.  We are within an hour a
half of a small ski area, and two hours away from
beautiful beaches on the Delware and New Jersey
coasts, and we are surrounded by beautiful hiking and
biking opportunities.  We are also a member of MAC,
the Mid-Atlantic Cohousing association. 
 
Thanks in advance,
 
Tom Hammer
for Concord Village
http://www.concordvillage.org

Currently looking for land near
Kennett Square, PA 19348

within a few miles of world-famous Longwood Gardens
www.longwoodgardens.org

Winterthur Museum and Country Estate
www.winterthur.org

 and Andrew and Jamie Wyeth country and the Brandywine
River Museum
www.brandywinemuseum.org

For those wishing for a slice of San Francisco
culture, the White Dog Cafe and Foundation
www.whitedog.com/foundation.html

The intern would probably be spending a lot of time in
quaint, friendly, historic Kennett Square
http://www.historickennettsquare.com/