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Salt, Vol. 10, No. 2, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies

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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.

Content
• 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 …

Salt, Vol. 10, No. 1, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies

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The magazine about the really important people of Maine. Maine’s New and Old Ethnic Groups — First of Two Parts. Kansath Pon is now a Mainer. She takes her place in the ethnic mix begun when Yankees first settled on Wabanaki land.

Content
• 3 Nineteen Pine Street Contributors and notes about this issue.
• 5 Maine Journal A new feature this issue. Who commutes? Most Mainers. Plus a barbershop view of the economy. And BIW expansion.
• 7 Yankees and Other Ethnics Ethnic gounps in Maine-including Yankees-are not part of a homogenious “melting pot,” argues sociologist Peter Rose. They are distinct contributors …

Salt, Vol. 6, No. 3, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies

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I could never call myself a Yankee. Five Immigrant Experiences. Italians in Portland’s “Little Italy.” French Canadians of Epping. Japanese in Livermore Falls. Russian Colony in Richmond. The Greeks of Biddeford/Saco.

Contents

• 2 Letters to Salt
• 4 Pinch a Penny, Spend a Dime A new column, “The Deacon’s Bench,” by Thomas Bradbury starts in this issue.
• 6 Guest Article: A Boy’s Dream Come True John Chaisson of Lewiston writes SALT’s first guest article about his childhood days in the “big woods.”
• 9 Salt Center for Field Studies This issue of SALT is the first to be published from SALT’s new …

Salt, Vol. 5, No. 2, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies

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Contents
• 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 …

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

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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

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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 …