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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.

Content

• 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. 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.

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

Salt Magazine Archive

“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. 5, No. 1, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies

Salt Magazine Archive

Contents
• 2 Boats That Come Naturally “It just came natural to want to build them,” says master boatbuilder Ralph Stanley of the traditional wooden boats he has been building since 1951.
• 16 I Christen Thee Endeavor A classic Friendship Sloop crafted by Ralph Stanley slides down the ways in Southwest Harbor, Maine.
• 21 ‘I Try to Make It Simple’ Rigging the Endeavor was a week long job for Ralph Stanley and his crew. Salt covers their handiwork step by step with 29 photographs and detailed explanation of their work in progress.
• 36 Sam Sam Polk is a gentle lobsterman from …

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. 3, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies

Salt Magazine Archive

Contents
• 2 Dragging with Lester Orcutt “You have to be an optimist to be a fisherman,” Lester Orcutt told us as he took us out for two days of dragging on the Minkette and later spent an afternoon explaining in detail how it’s done.
• 22 Fiddleheading Monty Washburn takes Salt on a fiddlehead hunting expedition near his camp in Andover, Maine.
• 28 Bait Bags The agile fingers of Ada Foss have knit hundreds of bait bags during her life as a lighthouse keeper’s wife. She shows us how it’s done in her home in Cape Porpoise.
• 37 How to Make …

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

Salt Magazine Archive

“Why the name SALT? Because salt is a natural symbol for the magazine — the salt of the sea, salt-washed soil, salt marshes and salty people, the kind that won’t use two words if they can get by with one.”

Contents

• 2 Settin’ on his Independence Clifford Jackson farms the old way with ‘gimcracks’ and horse power, and then “sets” on his independence.
• 18 How to Build a Lobster Trap Stilly Griffin shows how to make a lobster trap.
• 26 Dowsing Looking for water with a dowsing stick still works for some people in Maine. who tell how it’s done. …

Salt, Vol. 1, No. 2, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies

Salt Magazine Archive

“Why the name SALT? Because salt is a natural symbol for the magazine — the salt of the sea, salt-washed soil, salt marshes and salty people, the kind that won’t use two words if they can get by with one.”

Contents

• 2 Winter Lobstering in the De-Dee-Mae Few boats brave the winter seas for lobstering, but the De-Dee-Mae does.
• 8 Old Remedies Some of the old cures people still use.
• 9 ‘My Mother Used to...’ Eleanor Wormwood tells about old remedies used by her mother and grandmother.
• 17 Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum Ethel and Edie Furbish, 86 year old …

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

Salt Magazine Archive

“Why the name SALT? Because salt is a natural symbol for the magazine — the salt of the sea, salt-washed soil, salt marshes and salty people, the kind that won’t use two words if they can get by with one.”

Contents

• 1 Dedication
• 2 Sampling SALT
• 4 The Stilly Story Stilly Griffin tells about lobstering in Kennebunkport.
• 8 ‘No One Ever Beat Me’ Clamming with Helen Perley to get nine barrels a day.
• 11 Arden’s Garden Arden Davis harvests sea moss — his garden is the seacoast.
• 16 Planting’s only half of it Reid Chapman, an 80-year-old farmer shares his …