Using music as a form of therapy, four individuals with developmental disabilities in Maine formed a band, The Furry Ambers. Emily Forman documents how the band gives the members a way to make their voice heard and speak out about feeling repressed or misunderstood.

List of Salt alumni from 1972-2003.

Tom Falby learns about the shrimping industry in Maine by speaking with fishermen and going shrimp dragging.

Short write ups on commuting in Maine, barbershop economics, and the expansion of Bath Iron Works.

Megan Hanson captures the life of Mary Ann Cupero, a trucker of 15 years.

Salt invites scholars to a conference to speak about how folk culture and popular culture interact. Salt offers a report on the conference.

Bios of the contributors to the December 1993 Salt Magazine, with information on this issue.

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.

Returning to his hometown, Gabe Grabin goes back to Kennebunk following a prostitution scandal. Grabin speaks to members of the community about their reactions and opinions to the news, and how rumors spread about prominent individuals from the town being involved.

Heather D. Hay captures the lives of beekeepers.

Heather Hay captures a photograph of Chris Patles holding a brown ash log near Fred Moore Jr.

Amanda Venable and Caitlin Corrigan speak to Brigitte Paulus about a show she is the choreographing, Nutcracker Burlesque.