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Salt, 2007-2008, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies
Salt, 2007-2008, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies
Salt Magazine Archive
SALT telling Maine stories. Published by the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies. Number 65. 2007-2008.
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- 2 The ABCs of ESL a photo essay by Maisie Crow. Stephen Dyro teaches Beginning ESK in the very same classroom where he was a student at Portland High School. Some of his students were never literate in their native language; now they are learning to read and right.
- 10 “Peacy Keen and Wonderful” written by Kelsey Abbott, photography by Ashley Bailey. Lee Hudson and her husband, Heath, harvest, and market mussels and seaweed through their company, Frenchman Bay Fisheries. They have struggled to …
Salt, 2003-2004, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies
Salt, 2003-2004, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies
Salt Magazine Archive
SALT telling Maine stories. Published by the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies. Number 57 / 58. 2003-2004. Staying on. A Dexter story after the Shoe. A sheep farmer uses only salt water and sunlight for her wool. Veterans speak from the edgy shadows of their memories.
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- 3 Staying On by Terry Farish
- 4 Uphill Either Way by Carrie Kilman, photographs by Jenifer Dean. T-Bob’s Taxi—A Dexter story after The Shoe.
- 18 James at Risk photo essay by Lesley MacVane. A 16-year old boy at odds with the world is also a poet.
- 26 Waa Nabad: Somali Community in Lewiston …
Salt, Summer 2002, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies
Salt, Summer 2002, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies
Salt Magazine Archive
SALT Summer 2002.
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- 4 How to Peel a Persimmon Learning about growth of the Cambodian community in Portland. Krista Mahr, Lissa Gotwals
- 18 Unmasked. Facing Trans Identity in Portland, Maine. A photo essay. Joanna Johnson
- 24 Welcome at Shaw’s Just off the Appalachian Trail in Monson, Maine, rests Shaw’s Boarding Home, which always has its doors open to hikers. Sally Schumaier, Lorienne Schulze
- 40 Breathing in the Day The Peabody House serves as the first AIDS hospice in Maine. Jessi Misslin, Andres Gonzalez
- 54 Aborokporo The daily life of a Sudanese family in Portland. A photo essay. Kyle Glover …
Salt Omnibus 2001, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies
Salt Omnibus 2001, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies
Salt Magazine Archive
SALT Omnibus 2001.
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- 4 The Song of Objects The art of collecting threads together portraits of four highly individual collectors from Maine.
- 18 Baked Beans in a Pot Almost a million cans of baked beans leave B & M’s Portland plant every week. A photo essay depicts the day-to-day life of the “family” of bean factory workers.
- 26 Bush Piloting in Maine Pilots share their stories of a time when the only means of transportation in northwestern Maine meant navigating by landmarks to fly anything and anyone in and out of the bush.
- 38 Reinventing Eve Two religious leaders …
Salt Omnibus 2000, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies
Salt Omnibus 2000, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies
Salt Magazine Archive
SALT Omnibus 2000.
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- 8 Engine House Locomotives are unforgiving beasts to repair. The men in the engine house know they’d as soon crush you as look at you.
- 18 The Infiltration of Hip Hop Hip Hop comes to Maine via New York
- 24 Heirs of the Damariscotta People along the Damariscotta River’s path to the coast value its unspoiled water and vistas. Development is the threat.
- 40 Best of Both Worlds Intercultural families in southern Maine. A photo essay.
- 48 Snowmobile Town Jackman, Maine, is a busy hub for snowmobiling, which ahs lifted the border town out of its …
Salt, Vol. 13, No. 2, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies
Salt, Vol. 13, No. 2, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies
Salt Magazine Archive
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. 12, No. 2, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies
Salt, Vol. 12, No. 2, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies
Salt Magazine Archive
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 …