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.

Having rode his unicycle from Portland, Maine to Portland, Oregon to raise money for the Red Cross, it is just one of many adventures in the life of Bob Mueller. Molly Jean Bennett highlights how Bob and his siblings were home schooled through a method of self-schooling, and recounts the adventures that self-schooling has taken them on.

Finding ways for prison inmates to give back to society while incarcerated is a difficult task, but the Pups in Prison Program at the Downeast Correctional Institute does just that. Lynnette Harper explores how the program allows inmates to train service dogs while they serve their prison sentence.

Kathi Preble Peck introduces readers to the stories in the February 1977 Salt Magazine.

At the Pierce family farm in West Gardner, pigs, chickens, and cows are routinely slaughtered. Liza Semler captures the work the Pierce family does in their slaughterhouse.

William Ibelle explores how three generations of Penobscot Indians are searching through their experiences to define what it means to be a Penobscot living in today's work.

Holly Wilmeth captures the work of Raymond Strout, a carpenter by trade, who is a blood wormer by nature.

Column by Thomas Bradbury on the changes that Chester P. Flaherty brought to Simpson's Cove.

Inside back cover for the January 1983 Salt Magazine asking readers to become charters members of Salt.

Bios of the contributors to the August 1989 Salt Magazine.

Table of contents for April 1990 Salt Magazine.

The fighting style of mixed martial arts incorporates elements from many different styles, which Jay Jack and Amanda Buckner teach at their studio in Portland. Annie Reichert highlights the work of Jack and Buckner, with regards to fighting and their personal lives.