Cohousing-L Mailing List: ReL Thanksgiving story about N Street Cohousing

[Fred H Olson (fholson]

On 25 Nov 2010 Marty Maskall posted:

>The Sacramento Bee has published a heartwarming story about N Street
>Cohousing, in Davis, CA, titled "A Village that Loves Lucy."  The N Street
>residents have proved that a community can pull together in an extraordinary
>way.
>
>Today, the neighborhood starts its three-day Thanksgiving celebration. There
>will be sweet potato pudding, stuffing and a salad of curried beets and
>walnuts in memory of Rebecca Hammann, a pioneering resident of N Street who
>died last year just after Thanksgiving.  During her final days on earth,
>Hammann taught many of the 60 other N Streeters  how to prepare her favorite
>recipes.
>
>She also left them a beloved treasure: the vivacious Lucy Rose Xiao Gui
>Hammann Wolf-Cloud, her 4-year-old adopted daughter, who has become a
>living, laughing testament to N Street's commitment to community.
>
>Read more at:
>http://www.sacbee.com/2010/11/25/3211054/when-an-adoptive-mother-dies-her.ht
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>And Happy Thanksgiving to all!

>Marty Maskall
>Project Manager & Future Resident, http://www.FolsomEcoHousing.org

Marty, thanks for pointing this out.
I made a short URL to the article that does not break in email:

http://j.mp/n-st-2010

This page at the Sac. Bee currently does not require any login etc.
I archived a copy in case it ever disappears.

Dont't miss the diagram of this retrofit cohousing community
and the gallery of 23 photos.

The story of Lucy and her mom and N Street is an outstanding
'life in cohousing' story.

Greetings to all the folks at N Street which I visited for 3 days
in 1996 with my partner and then 7 year old son.  It is indeed a
great place for kids.  It is not large physically or in number
of households but it's contained landscape (between houses in the
middle of the block) has a certain attraction the way it uses that
space intensively. Note that it's 19 houses have 60 people which
I would guess is near the typical number of people in communities
with more units.

One of the features that sticks out in my memory is how the one house
that is not part of the community but near the middle of the site
across from the common house does not seem to divide the community.
(See diagram)  This is partly due to it's fence having been reduced to
about 3 feet high so it doe not visualy divide the community.

Fred

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