[Cob] Re: New to cob. New England?

[Tom Gorman]

David-
Welcome aboard.  I too recently 'discovered' cob and my partner and I  
are very amped up to eventually build ourselves a house, most likely  
somewhere in upstate NY.  There is a week-long cob workshop at the  
Yestermorrow School in VT at the end of May that we're going to  
attend.  As far as I've been able to find out, that is the only  
workshop coming up in the New England area.  Their site is  
www.yestermorrow.org.

I've really been amazed at the 'viral' nature of enthusiasm for cob-  
my girlfriend and I initially kept our interest and enthusiasm to  
ourselves, expecting skepticism and maybe even light ridicule ("Mud  
house?!?"), but every friend we've talked to about cob has almost  
immediately become interested, wanted to borrow our books, know more,  
already volunteering time and labor when we eventually build, etc.   
It's inspiring and encouraging!

If you do locate any cob houses in New England, let us know!  I sure  
hope within a few years we'll have one (or some sort of cob-hybrid).
Tom Gorman

On Feb 23, 2006, at 9:24 AM, coblist-request at deatech.com wrote:

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Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 09:23:27 -0500
From: "David Grogan" <david.grogan at tufts.edu>
Subject: [Cob] FW: New to cob. New England?
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Hello all,



After visiting a cob house in Denmark recently I really want to learn  
more
about the building process with a view to building my own at some  
point in
the not too distant future.



Can anyone tell me of any cob resources in the New England area? Cob  
houses,
workshops, fellow New England cobbers?



Any info at all would be much appreciated.



David



David Grogan

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