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Salt, Vol. 10, No. 4, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies
Salt, Vol. 10, No. 4, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies
Salt Magazine Archive
Documenting a Region: Maine in Words and Photographs. Artists in Belfast. Aroostook Potato Farm. City Street Scenes. Streets like Tyng and Tate in the West End of Portland have seen it all — longshore families, slums, urban renewal, and boom times.
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- 3 Nineteen Pine Street Contributors and notes about this issue.
- 5 Maine Journal The passing of Emmy McLean, Harvey Bixby, and other tales of the region, with a nod to Ronald Blythe.
- 7 A Sense of Place: Having It, Losing It What happens to the people of Maine communities undergoing change? Like the gentrification of old Belfast. Or …
B829: Addison—Its Persistencies And Changes, Louis A. Ploch
B829: Addison—Its Persistencies And Changes, Louis A. Ploch
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In 1947, at the request of the Maine Agricultural Extension Service, personnel of the USDA and Extension Service studied three Maine towns: Addison, in Washington County; Easton, in Aroostook County; and Turner, in Androscoggin County. The purpose of the studies was to determine the factors related to participation in Extension and other community-based activities; results of the research were summarized in Hay et al. (1949). The 1986-89 study of Addison analyzed in this publication is a component of a research project that focuses also on Easton and Turner and Landaff, New Hampshire. The current study is not, per se, a …
Salt, Vol. 10, No. 3, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies
Salt, Vol. 10, No. 3, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies
Salt Magazine Archive
Documenting a Region: Maine in Words and Photographs. Selling The Folk — A Special Issue on Folk and Pop Culture. Maine: The way life should be. That’s how Downeast folks and the landscape are romanticized to attract city dwellers.
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- 3 Nineteen Pine Street Contributors and notes about this issue.
- 5 Maine Journal A new twist and some old potholes in the Maine turnpike widening controversy.
- 6 From Folk to Pop and Back Again Salt invited scholars to a conference to talk about how folk culture and pop culture interact. Folk culture as in us authentic Downeast folk and pop …
Salt, Vol. 10, No. 2, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies
Salt, Vol. 10, No. 2, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies
Salt Magazine Archive
Documenting a Region: Maine in Words and Photographs. Maine’s Ethnic Groups: Part 2 — Franco-Irish-Swedish-Americans. Shanty Irish to lace curtain Irish. That’s what Skip Matson has seen. Still the Greenhorns come, from Galway and the troubled north.
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- 3 Nineteen Pine Street Contributors and notes about this issue.
- 5 Maine Journal A Great Northern milltown gets rich quick, but the future looks threatening. More on illiteracy and Emily Kinney.
- 7 Ethnic Groups of Maine Want to know how many Russians live in Maine? And here’s one for you. Blacks outnumbered Maine’s Native Americans two centuries ago. Facts about Maine’s ethnic …