Table of contents for November 1985 Salt Magazine.

Mindy Duncan inquires into the different lives of sculptors as they attempt to make livings off of their artwork, and also discusses how these art pieces make the people who purchase them feel.

In Biddeford, teenagers are attempting to bring back opera to the City Theater, at a time when opera is not popular in youth culture. The performers discuss how teenagers view opera and speak about the preparations for their show.

The sardine packing industry supported the town of Gouldsboro for nearly 135 years, until the packing plant was closed down. Madeleine Pryor captures how the closure of the sardine packing plant directly impacts the town, as well as other seafood industries in Maine.

In an effort to assist the homeless population of Portland, Logan Place offers homeless individuals their own permanent apartments, and a way to turn their lives around. Liz Lance captures the work done at Logan Place.

Julia Stires captures the lives and careers of women within the business world.

Erin Wile captures the controversy regarding the development of the Basin Mills Dam on the Penobscot River.

For over twenty years, the Community Television Network has given the community a way to broadcast their content through public access. Molly Finnagan highlights the history of the Community Television Network and discusses the varying kinds of programs that air on the network.

Laura Roe and Laura Sibley document the history of people from Chebeague Island, Maine.

Mostly white communities retell legends and folklore about Native Americans all over the country - all the time - including in Biddeford, Maine. But these stories about Native Americans are not traditional Native American stories. John Bear Mitchell and Carol Dana are traditional native storytellers from the Penobscot Nation. They talk about storytelling in their communities and why traditional native stories are stories that can only be evoked by a people who have actually lived that history.

For Barbara Cough, adopting her daughters Catie and Kimberly from China were a way for her to understand a culture that is part of her own lineage. Liz Mak documents how Barbara and her partner attempt to expose their children to a culture they have never known.

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