Toshiro Tanaka captures the activities and programs offered by the Maine Coast Semester.

The Sudanese Community Association of Maine hosts events geared towards showing their children the importance of education and going to school. Kyle Boelte highlights the work of Matthew Kongo, president of the Sudanese Community Association of Maine, and discusses his life in Portland and helping his community.

Ordained as a monk in the Celtic Buddhist faith, Sister Gryphon presides over a monastery in backwoods Maine. Cory Valentine documents the journey that led Sister Gryphon to become a monk, and discusses Glen Ard Abbey, her monastery.

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.

Kate Raley explores the subject of blacksmithing with local area blacksmiths, who discuss their relationship to the trade and the current trends.

Copyright information for Maine: A Peopled Landscape.

As a native of Augusta and black female, Geneva Sherrer has begun to document the untold story of Maine's black people. Heather Lane captures images of Sherrer while she works to tell the history of African Americans in Maine.

Isabel Foley documents the live of the Nasi family, who came from Afghanistan to make new lives in Maine.

In Gardiner, Maine a Pop-Up Business Project was introduced in an attempt to revitalize the economically depressed community by attracting new businesses to the area. Brian Gersten documents the work that Charles Bragdon and Jerry Gowen have put into their business, Treasures and Trinkets Discount Store.

In response to big agribusiness, Heather Retberg is helping to lead a grassroots movement that declares access to food of our choice is a legal right. Jenn Corey documents how thirteen towns in Maine have passed laws declaring a right to sell food to their neighbors without government intervention.

Amy Toensing captures the lives of migrant workers from Mexico to the Philippines who come to Maine to harvest acres of broccoli.

Lauren Lamont documents the lives of four households in mid-coast Maine who meet their energy needs in unique ways.