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5 On Being Ten Salt celebrates its 10th anniversary and looks forward to the next ten years.
6 Salt’s New Home A new piece of history is now being lived in Pinkham’s Hall in Cape Porpoise, Maine, as Salt finds a new home.
8 Gems of Cape Porpoise The islands off Cape Porpoise, Maine, have retained their gemlike beauty as villagers save them, one by one.
14 No Human Trace Jessica Jenkins learns to leave an island just as she found it, without human trace.
15 Semester in Maine Salt launches a new Semester in Maine program for college …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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2 Grandfather’s Golden Earring Sailing around Cape Horn in the mid 1800’s was a dangerous feat. The 90-year-old Furbish twins of Kennebunk recall their Grandfather Furbish wore “a thin gold earring in his left ear” as proud proof of the voyage.
8 ‘Like It, No Like It-Take It’ Maria Gollaros of Biddeford describes her 60 years working in the fabric mills of New England and her struggles as a young Greek immigrant woman in America.
16 Felling a Tree George and Roy Cole fell a giant locust tree in East Kingston, New Hampshire. Father and son continue to log …

Maine Bicentennial

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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 …

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