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Salt, 2004-2005, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies

Salt Magazine Archive

SALT telling Maine stories. Published by the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies. Number 59 / 60. 2004-2005.

Contents

• 3 Reverence by Jennifer Andrews
• 4 Ride This Train by Brendan Hughes, photos by Tim Greenway. Experience the rickets and tendons along the backbone of the old Boston and Maine Railroad.
• 16 Off the Maine Road: To be Raymond Strout photo essay by Holly Wilmeth. With a hoe and bucket in hand, blood wormers work in time with the ocean’s heave and swell.
• 24 Mussel Men by Susan Gaidos, photos by Kate Fox. Mussels: A crop changing the way fishermen once fished. …

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

Salt Magazine Archive

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.

Contents

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

Salt Magazine Archive

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.”

Contents

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

Salt Magazine Archive

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.

Content

• 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. 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

Content

• 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 …

Salt, Vol. 5, No. 2, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies

Salt Magazine Archive

Contents
• 3 ‘I Never Lied in My Life’ Cecil Kelley of Jonesport, Maine, spins a series of outrageous yams. Sample: “Grandmother drank a barrel of rum a day...”
• 16 Jake’s Easter Clam One Easter Sunday, seven-year-old Jake Leach went clamming with his father. John Leach of Kennebunkport, Maine, tells what clamming means to him and why he takes Jake along.
• 24 Christos Anesti! Greek Easter The Greek community in Biddeford, Maine, celebrates Easter with all the traditions of the old country.
• 32 Harvey’s Gone Fishing Harvey Bixby of Cape Porpoise, Maine, would rather fish than eat. He takes Salt fly …

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

Salt Magazine Archive

Contents
• 2 Indian Island On a small island in Maine’s Penobscot River live 400 Indians of the Penobscot nation. Some of them want to join the white man's world and some look to the traditions of the past.
• 4 ‘We Don’t Make Baskets Any More’ Madas Sapiel is an elder of the Penobscots whose life has spanned five generations of changes on Indian Island. She is a strong minded woman who admonishes her people to shape up and seek “unity.”
• 17 Bobcat and the Governor Two of Madas’ sons illustrate divergent paths the Penobscots are taking. Bobcat looks to the …

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

Salt Magazine Archive

Contents
• 2 ‘Nobody Cuts the Same’ Cutting fish at O’Hara’s in Rockland, Maine, is a family affair where brothers and sisters, fathers and sons work together.
• 14 Lamont Allen, Sr. A fish filleter for forty years, Lamont, now 49, is one of the fastest in the trade.
• 20 Norman Collins To get ahead as a fish filleter, what you need is “that old drive,” says Norman.
• 22 Put The Hammer Down Leo Thibeau of Kennebunk, Maine has a strong man’s trick of his own that not even the legendary John Henry claimed to do.
• 26 Laying the Keel Salt covers …

Salt, Vol. 4, No. 1, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies

Salt Magazine Archive

Contents
• 2 River Driving on the Kennebec Salt interviews 24 men and women of northwest Maine about river driving, the now outlawed act of driving logs through the mighty rivers of Maine to the mills where they are processed.
• 6 The Men The “rough, solid, individuals” that have worked on the river and in the woods.
• 9 Herding Logs How the logs are transported across lakes and down river.
• 19 Drivin’ a Stick-and Other Jobs Jobs on the river and tools of the trade.
• 21 Logging in Winter The same men who hurled cantdogs in the spring and summer were …

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

Salt Magazine Archive

Contents
• 2 A Time to Celebrate After four years of life, Salt is going into book form with the publication this June of The Salt Book — and we’re all going to celebrate!
• 4 Tuna Fishing Ken Hutchins of Cape Porpoise shares the secrets he has learned about catching the big game fish of the sea with rod and reel.
• 14 “I’d Like To See the Pounds of Butter I’ve Made With That Churn!” Mary Turner of West Peru makes butter with a churn that her mother used before her. She shows us how.
• 23 Mary’s Molasses Cookies After churning, …

Salt Bicentennial Maine, Vol. 3, No. 1 & 2, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies

Salt Magazine Archive

Maine Bicentennial

Contents — From the Sea

• 6 Twelve Miles Off the Mainland Natives of the rocky island of North Haven, Maine tell how they get what they need to survive.
• 14 Goat Island Lighthouse It takes a special kind of person to live on an island alone and tend a lighthouse. The Goat Island lighthouse keeper and his wife describe their life.
• 28 Gill Netting Herbert Hutchins takes Salt out gill netting for the day and we learn how it’s done.
• 34 Ships in Bottles Richard Nickerson of Arundel gives a step by step demonstration of how to construct …