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Salt, Vol. 5, No. 1, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies

Salt Magazine Archive

Contents
• 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 …

Salt, Vol. 4, No. 3, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies

Salt Magazine Archive

Contents
• 2 ‘Nobody Cuts the Same’ Cutting fish at O’Hara’s in Rockland, Maine, is a family affair where brothers and sisters, fathers and sons work together.
• 14 Lamont Allen, Sr. A fish filleter for forty years, Lamont, now 49, is one of the fastest in the trade.
• 20 Norman Collins To get ahead as a fish filleter, what you need is “that old drive,” says Norman.
• 22 Put The Hammer Down Leo Thibeau of Kennebunk, Maine has a strong man’s trick of his own that not even the legendary John Henry claimed to do.
• 26 Laying the Keel Salt covers …

Salt, Vol. 4, No. 2, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies

Salt Magazine Archive

Contents
• 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 …

Salt Bicentennial Maine, Vol. 3, No. 1 & 2, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies

Salt Magazine Archive

Maine Bicentennial

Contents — From the Sea

• 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 …