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Salt, Vol. 11, No. 4, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies

Salt Magazine Archive

Published by the Salt Center for Documentary Field Studies. Viginia and her child find a place in Maine's broccoli harvest, where 350 migrants “try to make it a home.”Content

• 3 Nineteen Pine Street Soon the Salt Center will expand to Seventeen Pine next door, doubling its size and expanding its educational programs.
• 4 Contradancing: Rowdies and Revivalists Maine has its “rowdies” that dance and play their music like the old time country dances of 50 years ago. And it has its “revivalists” that practice English contradances learned from Boston.
• 20 Broccoli Harvest Move over potatoes, here comes the broccoli …

Salt, Vol. 11, No. 3, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies

Salt Magazine Archive

20th Anniversary Issue. Documenting a Region: Maine in Words and Photographs. Making Violins. A Tale of Two Workplaces. Old Things. Frontier Maine begins at the edge of Greenville, unless you are a settler’s great grandson claiming the landscape of childhood.

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• 2 Nineteen Pine Street How this issue of Salt was made and who made it.
• 4 Greenville: the Shifting Frontier As long as Ed Walden’s around, you can’t take the frontier out of Greenville. You can’t Ed out either — except on a slab. We look at Greenville through the eyes of some of its people.
• 18 Radio and …

Salt, Vol. 11, No. 2, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies

Salt Magazine Archive

Documenting a Region: Maine in Words and Photographs. Pristine Castine. Harvesting Granite. Good Earth Farm. Tattoo Ernie, like many Mainers, marches to a different drummer. So do stone cutter Henry Bray and farmer Eric Brandt-Meyer.

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• 3 Nineteen Pine Street How this issue of Salt was made and who made it.
• 4 Fast Forward and Rewind A new feature. We look ahead at what’s to come and readers comment on what’s behind.
• 5 Salt Sense: Editorial In Salt’s 20 years of documenting Maine people, we have grown accustomed to remarkable lives — but unremarkable deaths. This changed with the life …

Salt, Vol. 7, No. 3, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies

Salt Magazine Archive

Mussel Wars. One Room Schoolhouses. No to Nuclear Waste. Lobstermen are losing their turf to aquaculture, say three generations of Carlsons in Tenants Harbor. A million more pounds of mussel meat than lobster meat were landed in 1985 as the sea is “fenced” for farming.

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• 3 The View from Pier Road A new feature starting this issue in Salt.
• 6 Deacon’s Bench Tom Bradbury’s column reflects the native Mainer’s attitude about party going.
• 7 “Crazy Avery” Avery Kelley, Beal’s Island storyteller, is a direct descendant of the giant Barney Beal. His yarns are as funny as Barney was strong. …

Salt, Vol. 7, No. 2, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies

Salt Magazine Archive

Hot clouds clamp a lid over the wild blueberry barrens of Maine. A bumper crop ripens too fast, 45 million pounds in a vast oven. Two tousand rakers race the heat. “Beat the sun. Ya gotta beat that sun, cause she’ll wear it right outta ya...”

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Hot clouds clamp a lid over the wild blueberry barrens of Maine. A bumper crop ripens too fast, 45 million pounds in a vast oven. Two tousand rakers race the heat. “Beat the sun. Ya gotta beat that sun, cause she’ll wear it right outta ya...”
• 2 Short Takes From Alberta Redmond’s 100th …

Salt, Vol. 7, No. 1, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies

Salt Magazine Archive

“When Saint Peter says to me, ‘You ready?’ I’ll say, ‘Wait ’til I git my tray.’ ...Seems to me I grew right up in that hotel racket. I don’t hardly know what ’tis to be tired. One day a fellow at Shawmut said, ‘Gladys, you don’t look like yourself. Are you well?’ I said, ‘What the hell are you talkin’ about? I can outwork any three people you have.’” — Gladys Hutchins McLean

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• 2 Locals in a Resort Town Living in a resort town wears down your sense of humor. Locals concoct pranks and jokes to restore it.
• 4 …

Salt, Vol. 6, No. 4, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies

Salt Magazine Archive

Blarney and salami at Fitzhenry’s Store.

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• 2 Junior Miller A salute to Junior Miller, who believed in hard work, persistence and optimism. This issue is dedicated to him.
• 4 The Deacon’s Bench Thomas Bradbury writes about Chester, the chicken plucker, in his column.
• 7 Letters to Salt
• 8 Center for Field Studies Salt’s Center hosts a series of visiting professors as part of its Semester-in-Maine program for college students.
• 10 Fitzhenry’s Store Fitzhenry’s is so little “there ain’t too much room to wrassle,” but it has everything from pickled eggs to shoe horns-and some back country conversation to boot. …

Salt, Vol. 1, No. 4, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies

Salt Magazine Archive

“Why the name SALT? Because salt is a natural symbol for the magazine — the salt of the sea, salt-washed soil, salt marshes and salty people, the kind that won’t use two words if they can get by with one.”

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• 2 Settin’ on his Independence Clifford Jackson farms the old way with ‘gimcracks’ and horse power, and then “sets” on his independence.
• 18 How to Build a Lobster Trap Stilly Griffin shows how to make a lobster trap.
• 26 Dowsing Looking for water with a dowsing stick still works for some people in Maine. who tell how it’s done. …

Salt, Vol. 1, No. 3, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies

Salt Magazine Archive

“Why the name SALT? Because salt is a natural symbol for the magazine — the salt of the sea, salt-washed soil, salt marshes and salty people, the kind that won’t use two words if they can get by with one.”

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• 2 “Years ago almost everybody had a barn.” The handsome barns of Maine, inside and out, are shown to us by their owners.
• 18 “Down She Goes” Shrimping with Dave Burnham and Herb Baum on the Capt. Jim.
• 26 Town Meetin’ Arundel town meeting, a lively example of the old New England town meeting form of government, where people …

Salt, Vol. 1, No. 2, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies

Salt Magazine Archive

“Why the name SALT? Because salt is a natural symbol for the magazine — the salt of the sea, salt-washed soil, salt marshes and salty people, the kind that won’t use two words if they can get by with one.”

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• 2 Winter Lobstering in the De-Dee-Mae Few boats brave the winter seas for lobstering, but the De-Dee-Mae does.
• 8 Old Remedies Some of the old cures people still use.
• 9 ‘My Mother Used to...’ Eleanor Wormwood tells about old remedies used by her mother and grandmother.
• 17 Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum Ethel and Edie Furbish, 86 year old …