Maurice Gordon is a retired master plasterer from West Kennebunkport. Bethany Aronow and other Salt students visit Gordon to learn about his craft of working with plaster.

Stephen Dismore speaks to Billy Beckwith, a boy who tends a vegetable stand, about tourists.

Despite the outrage from fishermen, sea farmers are fencing off sections of coastal bottom. George Carey documents the controversy between mussel growers and lobstermen.

As one of the best farmers in Aroostook County, Mike Brown never sold a potato that he wouldn't put on his own table. Christopher Knight documents why Brown quit one day after his seed was bought and loan was approved.

Pamela Wood offers an introduction to readers for this double issue, that touches on the continuity of work, continuing harvest of land, and making of things.

Since 1992 Mike Brooks has participated in marathons all over the United States, and is currently working on doing a third marathon in each state. Julia Davis speaks to Brooks about getting into running marathons and some injuries he faced along the way.

David Gavril documents the work that goes into the creation of maple sugar.

Despite the outrage from fishermen, sea farmers are fencing off sections of coastal bottom. George Carey documents the controversy between mussel growers and lobstermen.

Despite the outrage from fishermen, sea farmers are fencing off sections of coastal bottom. Lynn Kippax Jr. and George Carey document the controversy between mussel growers and lobstermen.

Introduction to articles in this issue of Salt magazine on the topic of what it means to be a Mainer, and the displacement of Maine people.

Table of contents for December 1990 Salt Magazine.

Table of contents for September 1992 Salt Magazine.