Education is important for individuals of all backgrounds and while behavioral, conduct, and attentional disordered individuals may have a difficult time in a traditional public schools, there is an option for them in Portland. Jennifer Halpern captures images at the Pupil Rehabilitation and Education Program, a publicly funded alternative school that gives students a second chance at education.

During the 1950's, a colony of Slavic immigrants came to Richmond, Maine. Scott Vlaun captures how the Slavic community integrated into the town.

For nearly 60 years the Scarborough Downs has been home to southern Maine's horse racing tradition, but it has begun to show its age as modern gambling becomes more popular. Aubrey White speaks to Mike Sweeney, the track's announcer, about lower attendance and how the sport has dwindled from a full time investment to a part time hobby.

Volunteering to care for the dead in Portland's Jewish community, Sheera LaBelle performs the ancient ritual of Tahara. Casey Gordon captures the work done at the Jewish Funeral Home.

In order to offer a practical way to bury loved ones, Cedar Brook Burial Ground greatly reduces the cost of an average funeral, causing people in Maine to rethink funeral traditions. Molly Jean Bennett investigates how this type of burial functions, and the radical topic of home funerals by speaking to two Mainers who buried a loved one on their own terms.

The Island Soundscape Project documents the sounds of the Maine coast, from the everyday to the highly unusual. They record birdcalls and babbling brooks, but also underwater animal calls and the weird moaning of suspension bridges. Their work draws on the traditions of soundscape studies, a field based on understanding the way people relate to their environment and their communities by studying sound. Its part scientific and part artistic, but it is all about the importance of learning to listen closely.

Jennifer Raitt documents the lives of the Sanipass family.

Penn Chan documents the lives of youths who project certain exterior identities that fail to establish genuine individuality.

In September of 2019, a story broke on Maine local news about a body that was found buried in Vernelle Jackson’s yard in the town of Norway. Jackson explained that the body was that of her dear friend Mae Shelton. The state police began an investigation to determine Shelton’s cause of death and the culpability of Jackson in the situation. Meanwhile the community began to discuss what it means to bury the body of a loved one in your yard. What follows is a story about friendship and one woman’s dedication to keeping a promise. This story is dedicated to my mother.

Tracey Samuelson highlights the Downeast Sled Dog Club and their participation in a dryland season for their sport. Samuelson discusses how dryland competitions are new in a sport that is traditionally done in the snow.

At 16, Samantha Todd is trying to balance the worlds of being an adolescent and a young adult. Catherine Louli profiles Todd's desire to do more with her life.

M.K. Lewis recounts an experience eating dinner with neighbors across the hall.