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Salt, Vol. 9, No. 2, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies
Salt, Vol. 9, No. 2, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies
Salt Magazine Archive
The magazine about the really important people of Maine. Special Issue: Rural Poverty in Maine — What Does It Mean? One in every five rural Mainers is poor. Like Monica, struggling to get by. Christmas rubs in the difference between having plenty and little.
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- 5 View from Pier Road
- 8 Being Poor in Rural Maine One in every five Mainers is poor. The numbers are growing even in today’s job market. Salt tells the story of the rural poor in Maine through their words and lives.
- 10 Portraits Lauretta Elie and Emily Kinney have two things in common. They …
Salt, Vol. 9, No. 1, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies
Salt, Vol. 9, No. 1, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies
Salt Magazine Archive
The magazine about the really important people of Maine. Life at the Mall. Vassal of the Farm. The Farming Edge. Malls may not be the village square, but people meet in the neon light of the concrete beast to forge the same old links of belonging.
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- 5 View from Pier Road
- 8 Vassals of the Farm Hired hands and owners of the Rancourt dairy farm in Vassalboro are bound to the farm in relentless work days. For some it beats the mill. For others it is peonage, long hours, poor pay and little to call your own.
- 22 Community …
Victorian Material Culture In Memphis, Tennessee: The Mallory-Neely House Interiors As Artifact, Lawrence Allen Ray
Victorian Material Culture In Memphis, Tennessee: The Mallory-Neely House Interiors As Artifact, Lawrence Allen Ray
Doctoral Dissertations
The interiors of the Mallory-Neely House are valuable surviving documents of nineteenth century American culture warranting careful research, preservation and interpretation. Victorian Village, where the mansion is located in Memphis, is a nationally recognized enclave of nineteenth-century domestic structures. Previous research has centered primarily on the genealogical background of the owners and to a much lesser degree on the architectural history of these houses; none had focused in a scholarly manner on the interiors and furnishings. This is especially true of the Mallory-Neely House, the only one containing its original interior decor. These represent stratification of occupation and renovation by …
Salt, Vol. 8, No. 4, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies
Salt, Vol. 8, No. 4, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies
Salt Magazine Archive
The magazine about the really important people of Maine. Summer Hotel. Acadians. Airline Road Tour. Lost Hunter. The big, old summer hotels are a dwindling breed. They cater to a lost elegance. But some people go without jacket and tie!
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- 3 Eating in Maine
- 5 View From Pier Road
- 8 Salt at Fifteen
- 10 Outsiders in Friendship Bill and Debbie Michaud learn some lessons about being outsiders in Maine as they start a bed and breakfast inn in Friendship.
- 12 Fifty Years a Bellman John Foster tells of a time when trained bellmen came from the South to work …