Stemple Pass
Stemple Pass Road is gravel and runs south out of Lincoln, Montana. Five miles down, on the left, was Ted Kaczynski’s mailbox, and about a hundred yards in, his cabin that he began building in June 1971. That same year he began a journal. When he was arrested on 3 April 1996, suspected of being the unabomber, the journal was found in the cabin, along with 257 books, hand written and typed copies of his manifesto, some concealed notes, and a few coded notebooks filled with numbers. In June 2011 the FBI auctioned off Kaczynski’s belongings, and through circumstance, the journal, concealed notes, and coded notebooks came into my possession. I read all that I could, and then wrote a computer programme to decode the notebooks. These are the texts used (without permission) in STEMPLE PASS. Five years earlier I built a replica of the Walden Pond cabin Henry David Thoreau built in 1845. Then in the spring of 2008 I built a copy of another cabin, Kaczynski’s. This was the beginning of the TWO CABINS Project. (James Benning)
In the presence of James Benning.
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