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This plan is not meant to be a complete set of instructions but a guide to the most difficult parts for those who want the adventure of building their own yurt. If you, perchance, get hung up, have a swim and try again with a clearer head.

That tongue-in-cheek line shouldn't scare you off, however, because Bill's yurt design is supersimple and the sheet of plans presents a number of crystal-clear illustrations like the one below. I mean, what the heck. If a 15-year-old kid can do it . . . why not you? Get your yurt recipe from:

Wm. S. Coperthwaite
Bucks Harbor
Maine 04718

. . . AND HEE'S WHERE YOUR MONEY GOES WHEN YOU DO

October 1, 1970
Bucks Harbor, Maine 04618

An Eskimo museum is being created and unbeknownst to most of you, the money you invested in a Yurt plan was helping to make this project possible.

The museum is a collection of artifacts and films from Eskimo life across the Arctic. It will travel to the Eskimo villages of Alaska with the intention of creating greater knowledge and respect among the Eskimo people for their cultural heritage. This will be a small, mobile museum going from village to village by plane, snowmobile and dog sled.

For the last three years I have been assembling this collection and preparing to take it into the field. This fall it will come about under the sponsorship of the University of Alaska, the Alaska State Museum, the Harvard Graduate School of Education and the newly formed Yurt Foundation.

The Yurt design and the publication of the plan have been so enthusiastically received that two new organizations have been formed.

(1) YURT DESIGNS INC., BOX 183, CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS. This is a business organization concerned with the production of yurts and the providing of consultant help for those requesting it.

(2) THE YURT FOUNDATION, BUCKS HARBOR, MAINE. A private non-profit corporation has been set up so that money coming to me from the sale of yurts or yurt plans can be more fully used for educational purposes. The chief concern of the Yurt Foundation will be the collecting of folk knowledge from around the world and the combining of this with contributions from modern knowledge for the purpose of creating a life style which will be simpler and in more intimate contact with the natural world while promoting intellectual and creative fulfillment.

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