The House that Lois Built

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At an age when most people are at least thinking about retiring, 72-year-old Lois Lewis decided to take on the biggest project of her life.

'I needed to do something I'd never done, and I needed a real change from what I was doing,' Lewis recalls in the Summer Solstice 2000 issue of Crone Chronicles, a magazine celebrating the power of aging. After reading an article in her local newspaper, the former teacher signed up for a homebuilding workshop conducted by Becky Bee. The workshop was held at Bee's Earthworks studio, about an hour from Lewis' southern Oregon home. Under Bee's tutelage, Lewis learned to build basic structures out of cob, a durable combination of clay, sand, and straw traditionally used in English villages.

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