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Salt, Vol. 13, No. 2, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies

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SALT. Published by the Salt Center for Documentary Field Studies. Number 50. Four Dollars. “Yelana and Mohammed go to school with children from 25 countries learning a new language in Maine.”

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• 2 Nineteen Pine Street Around the corner from Salt waited a compelling story about a school. We tell it in this issue, challenging negative press about Reiche.
• 4 Myrtle Myrtle Lowell left home at age 13 to go to work. That was more than 70 years ago. She’s never had time for needlework. “Course not! God almighty! Only the Southern ladies could do that. Not us old crows.” …

Salt, Vol. 13, No. 1, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies

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SALT. Published by the Salt Center for Documentary Field Studies. Number 49. Four Dollars. “Women’s work is fighting fires. Vicki’s job. Building bridges. Shoeing horses. Fishing. Women entering the trades.”

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• 2 Nineteen Pine Street Going overboard—and aboard—to get the story, whether it’s groundfishing or hanging out at Amistad.
• 5 Women’s Work Redefining women’s work. A look at 16 Maine women in the trades. Their work ranges from pipe fitting to construction to truck driving.
• 14 Grounding the Boats For groundfishermen like Lendall Alexander, the crisis is here. A way of life his family has known for four generations may …

Salt, Vol. 12, No. 3-4, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies

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The SALT OMMIBUS. Numbers 47 & 48. Nine dollars. A Special Book-length Double Issue of Salt Stories and Photographs. Published by the Salt Center for Documentary Studies.

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• 4 Comments The Maine Salt sees—22 years of changing and staying the same. By Pamela Holley Wood.
• 6 Northwoods Balladeer Living what he sings about. By Kristin Brit Peaterson. Photographs by Roland Laigo.
• 17 “Time and Place Teach You” Ethiopian family in Maine. A photographic essay by Stephanie Mitchell.
• 25 What are Cows For? The BST debate on the farm. By Tim Hughes. Photographs by Judith Bennett.
• 45 John Lee Blind but …

Salt, Vol. 11, No. 4, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies

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Published by the Salt Center for Documentary Field Studies. Viginia and her child find a place in Maine's broccoli harvest, where 350 migrants “try to make it a home.”Content

• 3 Nineteen Pine Street Soon the Salt Center will expand to Seventeen Pine next door, doubling its size and expanding its educational programs.
• 4 Contradancing: Rowdies and Revivalists Maine has its “rowdies” that dance and play their music like the old time country dances of 50 years ago. And it has its “revivalists” that practice English contradances learned from Boston.
• 20 Broccoli Harvest Move over potatoes, here comes the broccoli …

Salt, Vol. 11, No. 3, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies

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20th Anniversary Issue. Documenting a Region: Maine in Words and Photographs. Making Violins. A Tale of Two Workplaces. Old Things. Frontier Maine begins at the edge of Greenville, unless you are a settler’s great grandson claiming the landscape of childhood.

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• 2 Nineteen Pine Street How this issue of Salt was made and who made it.
• 4 Greenville: the Shifting Frontier As long as Ed Walden’s around, you can’t take the frontier out of Greenville. You can’t Ed out either — except on a slab. We look at Greenville through the eyes of some of its people.
• 18 Radio and …

Salt, Vol. 12, No. 2, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies

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SALT. Published by the Salt Center for Documentary Field Studies. “Monica waitresses in a bar. What she does is not where she’s at. She’s waiting to get there. Call it the 20-nothings.”

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• 3 Nineteen Pine Street Yes! Gallery hours year round begin in December, opening Salt’s documentary photography collection to the public for the first time.
• 4 Cambodian Wedding in Maine The bride and groom are part of Portland’s growing Cambodian community. Their traditional wedding ceremony took four hours and is important to preserving the customs of their ancestors.
• 15 Twenty Nothings Call them the twenty nothings crowd. Call …

Salt, Vol. 11, No. 2, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies

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Documenting a Region: Maine in Words and Photographs. Pristine Castine. Harvesting Granite. Good Earth Farm. Tattoo Ernie, like many Mainers, marches to a different drummer. So do stone cutter Henry Bray and farmer Eric Brandt-Meyer.

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• 3 Nineteen Pine Street How this issue of Salt was made and who made it.
• 4 Fast Forward and Rewind A new feature. We look ahead at what’s to come and readers comment on what’s behind.
• 5 Salt Sense: Editorial In Salt’s 20 years of documenting Maine people, we have grown accustomed to remarkable lives — but unremarkable deaths. This changed with the life …

Salt, Vol. 12, No. 1, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies

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SALT. Published by the Salt Center for Documentary Field Studies. “Marim works in Maine’s new booming urchin industry. Pickers like her, divers, and processors rake in the profits.”

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• 3 Nineteen Pine Street The Salt Center is organizing a major photographic retrospective.
• 6 Urchins! Urchin beds on the ledges off Maine’s coastline rival the gold fields of California for making a quick buck. Maine’s newest fishery industry sends a crop to Japan that was worthless seven years ago. Divers, buyers, pickers, and processors pocket the profits.
• 15 Picking Uni for Japan Picking urchin roe, called “uni” in Japan, is hard …

Salt, Vol. 11, No. 1, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies

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Documenting a Region: Maine in Words and Photographs. Making Minyan. Family Dairy Farm. Digging for Gems. Tradition dies hard when it’s part of your life and nine more people need you on Congress Street at five o'clock or sooner.

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• 3 Nineteen Pine Street Contributors and notes about this issue.
• 5 The Photographer’s Voice Five Maine photographers talk about their work in an open forum with Salt’s photographic students. Here are the voices that inform the images of Tom Donaldson, Arthur Fink, Tony King, Jack McConnell, and Marta Morse.
• 8 Digging For Gems Oxford County’s mineral-rich veins keep rockhounds like …

Salt, Vol. 10, No. 4, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies

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Documenting a Region: Maine in Words and Photographs. Artists in Belfast. Aroostook Potato Farm. City Street Scenes. Streets like Tyng and Tate in the West End of Portland have seen it all — longshore families, slums, urban renewal, and boom times.

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• 3 Nineteen Pine Street Contributors and notes about this issue.
• 5 Maine Journal The passing of Emmy McLean, Harvey Bixby, and other tales of the region, with a nod to Ronald Blythe.
• 7 A Sense of Place: Having It, Losing It What happens to the people of Maine communities undergoing change? Like the gentrification of old Belfast. Or …

B829: Addison—Its Persistencies And Changes, Louis A. Ploch

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In 1947, at the request of the Maine Agricultural Extension Service, personnel of the USDA and Extension Service studied three Maine towns: Addison, in Washington County; Easton, in Aroostook County; and Turner, in Androscoggin County. The purpose of the studies was to determine the factors related to participation in Extension and other community-based activities; results of the research were summarized in Hay et al. (1949). The 1986-89 study of Addison analyzed in this publication is a component of a research project that focuses also on Easton and Turner and Landaff, New Hampshire. The current study is not, per se, a …

Salt, Vol. 10, No. 3, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies

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Documenting a Region: Maine in Words and Photographs. Selling The Folk — A Special Issue on Folk and Pop Culture. Maine: The way life should be. That’s how Downeast folks and the landscape are romanticized to attract city dwellers.

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• 3 Nineteen Pine Street Contributors and notes about this issue.
• 5 Maine Journal A new twist and some old potholes in the Maine turnpike widening controversy.
• 6 From Folk to Pop and Back Again Salt invited scholars to a conference to talk about how folk culture and pop culture interact. Folk culture as in us authentic Downeast folk and pop …

Salt, Vol. 10, No. 2, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies

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Documenting a Region: Maine in Words and Photographs. Maine’s Ethnic Groups: Part 2 — Franco-Irish-Swedish-Americans. Shanty Irish to lace curtain Irish. That’s what Skip Matson has seen. Still the Greenhorns come, from Galway and the troubled north.

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• 3 Nineteen Pine Street Contributors and notes about this issue.
• 5 Maine Journal A Great Northern milltown gets rich quick, but the future looks threatening. More on illiteracy and Emily Kinney.
• 7 Ethnic Groups of Maine Want to know how many Russians live in Maine? And here’s one for you. Blacks outnumbered Maine’s Native Americans two centuries ago. Facts about Maine’s ethnic …

Salt, Vol. 10, No. 1, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies

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The magazine about the really important people of Maine. Maine’s New and Old Ethnic Groups — First of Two Parts. Kansath Pon is now a Mainer. She takes her place in the ethnic mix begun when Yankees first settled on Wabanaki land.

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• 3 Nineteen Pine Street Contributors and notes about this issue.
• 5 Maine Journal A new feature this issue. Who commutes? Most Mainers. Plus a barbershop view of the economy. And BIW expansion.
• 7 Yankees and Other Ethnics Ethnic gounps in Maine-including Yankees-are not part of a homogenious “melting pot,” argues sociologist Peter Rose. They are distinct contributors …

B828: Landaff—Then And Now, Louis A. Ploch

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This study of Landaff, New Hampshire, is one of four research projects sponsored jointly by the Maine Agricultural Experiment Station and the Northeast Regional Center for Rural Development. The purpose of the research series is to trace the processes of persistency and change in four northern New England towns. Easton, Addison, and Turner, Maine, were studied by the U.S. Department of Agriculture in conjunction with the Maine Cooperative Extension Service in 1948 (Hay et al. 1949). Landaff, New Hampshire, was one of six communities comprising the series entitled Culture of a Contemporary Rural Community conducted by the U.S. Department of …

Salt, Vol. 9, No. 4, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies

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The magazine about the really important people of Maine. Flea Markets. Jamaican Apple Pickers. Peaks Island. Flea Markets are as Maine as pine trees and lobsters. What’s a flea? “Anything that’s been used, abused, and ready for resale.”

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• 3 Eating in Maine If you want to eat where the locals eat) this is where you’ll find them-where prices are right and the talk is familiar.
• 7 Letters to the Editor
• 9 View from Pier Road The end of an era for Salt and the beginning of a new one, as we move north to Portland.
• 10 Flea Market What …

Salt, Vol. 7, No. 3, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies

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Mussel Wars. One Room Schoolhouses. No to Nuclear Waste. Lobstermen are losing their turf to aquaculture, say three generations of Carlsons in Tenants Harbor. A million more pounds of mussel meat than lobster meat were landed in 1985 as the sea is “fenced” for farming.

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• 3 The View from Pier Road A new feature starting this issue in Salt.
• 6 Deacon’s Bench Tom Bradbury’s column reflects the native Mainer’s attitude about party going.
• 7 “Crazy Avery” Avery Kelley, Beal’s Island storyteller, is a direct descendant of the giant Barney Beal. His yarns are as funny as Barney was strong. …

Salt, Vol. 9, No. 3, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies

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The magazine about the really important people of Maine. Folk Culture. Popular Culture. Bingo. Junkyards. Folk Music. Big Paul Bunyan, Maine “folk hero,” is an ad salesman’s product. His nemesis stands in the heart of the great North Woods.

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• 3 Eating in Maine If you want to eat where the locals eat, this is where you’ll find them-where prices are right and the talk is familiar.
• 9 View from Pier Road
• 10 We Are What We Buy L.L. Bean and the Beans of Egypt) Maine have some things in common) says George Lewis) a sociologist and Maine native. We …

B824: Turner—A Study In Persistence And Change, Louis A. Ploch

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This study of Turner, Maine, is one of four research projects sponsored jointly by the Maine Agricultural Experiment Station and the Northeast Regional Center for Rural Development. The purpose of the research series is to trace the processes of persistency and change in four northern New England towns. Easton, Addison, and Turner, Maine, were studied by the U.S. Department of Agriculture in conjunction with the Maine Cooperative Extension Service in 1948 (Hay et al. 1949). Landaff, New Hampshire, was one of six communities comprising the series entitled Culture of a Contemporary Rural Community conducted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture …

Salt, Vol. 9, No. 2, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies

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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

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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 …

Salt, Vol. 8, No. 4, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies

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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 …

B821: Comparative Health Characteristics Of Adolescent And Older Mothers And Their Offspring In Maine, Gary L. Schilmoeller, Marc D. Baranowski

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The purpose of this study was to analyze the incidence of births in Maine from 1980 to 1984 and to profile the health and demographic characteristics of this population

B820: Inmigration To Maine: 1975-1983, Louis A. Ploch

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This publication is the capstone report of a series of research studies, begun in 1976, of inmigration to Maine. During the 1976-1984 period, three separate, but coordinated, studies were conducted by the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Maine Agricultural Experiment Station. The impetus for the studies was the release in 1974 and 1975 of a series of population estimates by the U.S. Bureau of the Census. These data, and especially their analysis by Calvin Beale of the USDA, were confirmation that rural areas throughout the United States were growing as a result of inmigration from urban areas. Moreover, Maine, …

Salt, Vol. 8, No. 3, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies

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The magazine about the really important people of Maine. On Custom House Wharf, life stays much the same. That’s the way Fonnie like it. Grime, fish, and sweat. Not a place for Yuppies.

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• 2 Eating in Maine
• 3 Spend a Semester with the Really Important People of Maine
• 5 View From Pier Road
• 7 Munjoy Hill’s Inside Scoop Renee’s Variety Store in Portland is the place to find out what’s going on around Mun joy Hill.
• 9 Jack of All Trades Al Buzzell’s grandfather told him, “Don’t learn one trade. Learn a dozen.” He took the advice.
• 12 Lost …

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

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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?

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• 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 …

Salt, Vol. 8, No. 1, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies

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The magazine about the really important people of Maine. This is Walter. The bear is Cuddles. Walter’s struggling to overcome child abuse. He’s also trying to find a home. The two may be the same.

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• 3 View From Pier Road
• 2 Eating In Maine A new feature, Salt’s guide to the really important places to eat in Maine.
• 6 Maine: Myth and Reality A special issue on what is the “real” Maine. Salt staff and students worked to find out. What they found is presented in three sections.
• 7 Being Young in Maine What is it like to be …

Salt, Vol. 7, No. 4, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies

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Bangor Truckstop. Portland’s Philosopher-Bookman. McCurdy’s Smoke House. “The movies make trucking so glamorous. It ain’t though. I want my boy to see what it’s really like.” Dysart’s Truckstop in Bangor, a Maine institution for truckers and locals. “From Kittery to Canada it’s the only one.”

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• 4 Crazy Avery Goes to New York A very Kelley tells about the time he hauled his traps on Beal’s Island, Maine, and “struck a dust for New York.”
• 12 Bangor Truckstop Ken Kobre, photojournalist, turns his lens on Dysart’s Truckstop south of Bangor, a Maine tradition for 18 years.
• 19 Around the Clock …

Salt, Vol. 7, No. 2, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies

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Hot clouds clamp a lid over the wild blueberry barrens of Maine. A bumper crop ripens too fast, 45 million pounds in a vast oven. Two tousand rakers race the heat. “Beat the sun. Ya gotta beat that sun, cause she’ll wear it right outta ya...”

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Hot clouds clamp a lid over the wild blueberry barrens of Maine. A bumper crop ripens too fast, 45 million pounds in a vast oven. Two tousand rakers race the heat. “Beat the sun. Ya gotta beat that sun, cause she’ll wear it right outta ya...”
• 2 Short Takes From Alberta Redmond’s 100th …

Salt, Vol. 7, No. 1, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies

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“When Saint Peter says to me, ‘You ready?’ I’ll say, ‘Wait ’til I git my tray.’ ...Seems to me I grew right up in that hotel racket. I don’t hardly know what ’tis to be tired. One day a fellow at Shawmut said, ‘Gladys, you don’t look like yourself. Are you well?’ I said, ‘What the hell are you talkin’ about? I can outwork any three people you have.’” — Gladys Hutchins McLean

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• 2 Locals in a Resort Town Living in a resort town wears down your sense of humor. Locals concoct pranks and jokes to restore it.
• 4 …