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Salt, Vol. 9, No. 2, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies
Salt, Vol. 9, No. 2, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies
Salt Magazine Archive
The magazine about the really important people of Maine. Special Issue: Rural Poverty in Maine — What Does It Mean? One in every five rural Mainers is poor. Like Monica, struggling to get by. Christmas rubs in the difference between having plenty and little.
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- 5 View from Pier Road
- 8 Being Poor in Rural Maine One in every five Mainers is poor. The numbers are growing even in today’s job market. Salt tells the story of the rural poor in Maine through their words and lives.
- 10 Portraits Lauretta Elie and Emily Kinney have two things in common. They …
Salt, Vol. 9, No. 1, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies
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.
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- 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. 8, No. 4, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies
Salt, Vol. 8, No. 4, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies
Salt Magazine Archive
The magazine about the really important people of Maine. Summer Hotel. Acadians. Airline Road Tour. Lost Hunter. The big, old summer hotels are a dwindling breed. They cater to a lost elegance. But some people go without jacket and tie!
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- 3 Eating in Maine
- 5 View From Pier Road
- 8 Salt at Fifteen
- 10 Outsiders in Friendship Bill and Debbie Michaud learn some lessons about being outsiders in Maine as they start a bed and breakfast inn in Friendship.
- 12 Fifty Years a Bellman John Foster tells of a time when trained bellmen came from the South to work …
B821: Comparative Health Characteristics Of Adolescent And Older Mothers And Their Offspring In Maine, Gary L. Schilmoeller, Marc D. Baranowski
B821: Comparative Health Characteristics Of Adolescent And Older Mothers And Their Offspring In Maine, Gary L. Schilmoeller, Marc D. Baranowski
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The purpose of this study was to analyze the incidence of births in Maine from 1980 to 1984 and to profile the health and demographic characteristics of this population
B820: Inmigration To Maine: 1975-1983, Louis A. Ploch
B820: Inmigration To Maine: 1975-1983, Louis A. Ploch
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This publication is the capstone report of a series of research studies, begun in 1976, of inmigration to Maine. During the 1976-1984 period, three separate, but coordinated, studies were conducted by the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Maine Agricultural Experiment Station. The impetus for the studies was the release in 1974 and 1975 of a series of population estimates by the U.S. Bureau of the Census. These data, and especially their analysis by Calvin Beale of the USDA, were confirmation that rural areas throughout the United States were growing as a result of inmigration from urban areas. Moreover, Maine, …