Each day, ten men are needed for group prayer at the Etz Chaim Synagogue in Portland. Jennifer Freed documents the work members of the congregation do to keep their Jewish traditions and culture alive.

At one point during American history, rural populations were growing faster than urban populations. Rebecca Saunders explores how back-to-landers in Maine, or homesteaders, have evolved their lifestyles since the 1950s when people were coming to Maine to live on the land in large numbers.

Meredith Wade explores the traditional craft of basketweaving, speaking with basketmakers in the Agamenticus community.

This is a piece about a book, called “Still They Remember Me: Penobscot Transformer Tales (Volume I)”, and the stories both within and around it. It is the first and only book fully written in the Penobscot language, a language spoken for millenia by the Penobscot people, an indigenous tribe in Maine. The language was lost due to cultural erasure but through projects like this book the language is slowly becoming revitalized.

Bios of the contributors to the September 1994 Salt Magazine, with information on the Salt Center.

In the Kennedy family, bean hole bean baking has always been a tradition. Suellen Simpson travels to the Kennedy household in The Forks to learn about baking beans in the ground.

Back cover for Maine: A Peopled Landscape.

Michael Wingfield, a world class percussionist, share his knowledge of drumming with communities throughout Maine and New England. Rob Korobkin highlights a workshop conducted by Wingfield in Searsmont, and discusses the subject of diversity.

Marcy Angelo, a young Sudanese woman in Portland, has a vision to hold a benefit concert for Sudan, but must first gain sponsorship and approval. Mercedes Grandin highlights the planning that Angelo does before speaking to the Sudanese Community Association about her idea, and discusses the importance of her culture.

In the Kennedy family, bean hole bean baking has always been a tradition. Salt travels to the Kennedy household in The Forks to learn about baking beans in the ground.

During the 1950's, a colony of Slavic immigrants came to Richmond, Maine. Gretchen Batz documents how the Slavic community integrated into the town.

Steve Cartwright, Sheryl Lane and Lynn Kippax Jr. document the lives of individuals who live on Indian Island.