The creation of ceramic pieces is an art that potters take serious, generally not allowing people to watch them work. Anne Goldsmith watches and talks to potters at Rowantrees Pottery in Blue Hill to learn about their lives and their craft, uncovering the precise nature of their work.

Staff, contributors, trustees, and academic board members are listed.

Shannon and Josh Gamache are a family who follow the traditional family structure, where Josh goes to work while Shannon stays at home raising the children. Katie Bell explores how the Gamache functions through the experiences of their eight year old, Colin.

Pamela Wood documents the history of Water Street in Eastport. Wood speaks to locals about the activity on the street.

With such close proximity to middle class Americans, Indian culture in Penobscot has started to mimic the American standard of living. Sheryl Lane profiles how Indian culture is on the island by speaking to Madas Sapiel.

Table of contents for June 1977 Salt Magazine.

Readers write in response to the work Salt has done on Paul Bunyan and rural poverty.

Hugh French uncovers how myth binds Moose Island to the islands of New Brunswick, and how a creation of visible reminders about the border reinforces their separation from Canada.

Short entries with Salt updates.

Pamela H. Wood introduces a profile on Ruth Moulden, a women who had to work as hard as any man on Swan's Island.

Bill Àjà never thought he could draw. It took a rapid decline in his vision - and a relocation to an independent living facility - to discover an ability, and a source of joy, that he'd had all along.

After several hours of preparation, 12 Salt students were guided by Reid Chapman on making apple cider the old fashioned way. Ann Bath and others document the process Chapman goes through to make his cider.