As a longshoreman, Ed Barnes has had experience loading many ships into the Eastport breakwater. Pamela Wood highlights how Barnes came into his line of work.

As a social worker, Maurice Geoffroy sees people from all backgrounds and with varying situations. Salt follows Geoffroy around as he visits the elderly, welfare mothers, people laid off, and others.

Working as a fillet cutter at O'Hara's in Rockland, Norman Collins believes the secret to getting ahead is having drive. Robin McGahey offers a profile on Collins' work.

Introduction to readers for Eastport For Pride, a Salt double issue publication, on the topic of the village of Eastport, .

October 1947 was the year of the great fire in Maine. Dottie O'Keefe speaks to residents in Maine about their experiences when sixty fires raged for a week.

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.

Along the beach, Arden Davis collects Irish sea moss, something he claims most people do not know about. Kim Lovejoy and Mary White speak to Davis about the process of sea moss harvesting.

Rebecca McDonald discusses the services and programs offered at the Maine Children's Home, and how these programs give teenage mothers an opportunity to get an education.

Out at Wood Island at four in the morning, Lester Orcutt is ready to start his daily routine of dragging. Herbert Baum III joins Orcutt has he drags to learn about this fishing method and the work draggers perform.

John Leach takes his son along when he goes clamming, following the same footsteps his father before him did. Lynn Kippax Jr. documents the importance of clamming for Leach and why he takes his son along.

Racial barriers exist in many parts of the United States and in the state of Maine, but the church community of Green Memorial AME Zion Church aims to break down those barriers. Nicole Nardon explores how this church embraces integration in order to share their faith with all.

Lynn Kippax Jr. captures the work that hand rakers perform in the blueberry barrens.