Column by Thomas Bradbury on the native Mainer's attitude towards party going.

A growing trend in the United States for childbirth is the practice of placenta encapsulation, where new mothers eat their placenta to seemingly recover from childbirth with greater ease. Amy Miller investigates how this trend is practiced.

In Portland, the Maine Time Dollar Network allows community members to perform various services for each other that is bringing the community closer together. Stephanie Congdon explores how this network works and discusses how services are traded.

New feature in Salt Magazine that guides people to important places to eat in Maine.

In the North Maine Woods, one of the last logging camps in Maine houses over two dozen lumberjacks, with one cook to make meals for them. Natalie Rose discusses the work that Tina Pelletier does as the cook at the Telos logging camp, and how the weight of the job is too much for her at times.

Ashley Bailey documents the Southern Maine Rebels women's football team.

Aboard the schooner, Bowdoin, Julia Rodriguez captures the expressions of Maine Maritime Academy students.

Pamela Wood speaks about the thoughts that Mainers and non-Mainers have about the state, in regarding to myth and reality.

Guide to help people find important places to eat in Maine.

In Maine, many mills are shutting down due to raising fuel prices and global competition, but new research at the University of Maine is providing a way for the mills to reopen. Larissa Curlik explores how the technology being developed to turn Maine's woods into fuel for cars can save struggling mills and put them back into production.

Dave Read captures the people and places of small towns in inner Maine.

Coming to Maine as refugees, two Cambodian families experience contrasts from their old lives and new ones in a land with plenty. Tonee Harbert captures how these two families adapt to their new lives in Maine.