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Salt, Vol. 9, No. 1, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies

Salt Magazine Archive

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.

Content

• 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. 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, 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. …