“Big Imaginations: How to Start a Business without Really Trying” By Pam Jung
What sort of dreams – or trouble – can two cohousers create? Well . . .
The day after Wolf Creek Lodge’s monthly meeting in June, Suzanne Marriott and I decided to play tourist at Grass Valley’s gorgeous and historic Empire Mine State Park, a gold rush era processing gold mine. While traipsing around the verdant lawns, hundred year old trees and solid, European looking stone cottages, I kept up a chatter about all the things I had learned over my twenty years of coming to this park, hoping that my out-of-town friend and fellow cohouser would be fascinated – after all, most folks can’t seem to get enough of gold country lore, past, present and future. (Yes, we are still discovering gold in Nevada County. The newspaper reported last year the largest gold nugget find by a guy rooting around in his backyard. Hearts throughout the county fluttered with the hope of a similar find.)
Well, turns out Suzanne was much more interested in the names of flowers and trees as she admired the many roses in bloom and feasted her eyes on the magnificent expanses of lush green lawns. “Well,” said I, “I know something about these things, too – like the rocks used in the construction of the houses came from the mine itself, and the trees are second growth because the miners used all of the existing trees to stoke their smelting furnaces, hold up their mining tunnels, and rebuild their towns when they burned down.”
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