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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 …

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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, …

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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 …

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