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Salt, Vol. 8, No. 2, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies

Salt Magazine Archive

The magazine about the really important people of Maine. Special Issue: Tourism. Seaside & Lakeside. Colonists & Coneheads. Six million people come to Maine on vacation each year. Do they make life better or worse for Mainers? How are they changing the state?

Content

• 2 Eating in Maine
• 3 View From Pier Road
• 6 Colonists and Coneheads Sociologist Peter I. Rose sees a caste system in tourism. Colonists are brahmins and coneheads (bus tourers) near the bottom of the heap.
• 8 Tourism: A Double Edged Sword What is tourism doing to “Vacationland” in the 1980s?
• 10 Tour Bus! A whimsical …