When Josh Howe returned home from the hospital after having a brain tumor removed, his sister Morgan started to get frustrated. Kim Alexander documents how the family has coped with Josh's condition.

Communities can be bound together by a number of reasons, and for the community in Munjoy Hill, the restoration of St. Lawrence Church brought back a sense of community. Pam Carter discusses the restoration efforts of the community and details the project.

Laurie Smith and Anne Pierter review different kinds of herbs that can cure various ailments.

Brittany Hughes documents the raising of Portland's holiday tree in Monument Square.

List of back issues and books from Salt.

Jennifer Mikulski speaks to individuals about garbage collecting and waste systems.

Katherine Bordwell documents the work done by Wilderness School founder and head instructor Dan Fisher and others at Fisher's Wilderness School in Brunswick.

Jones Franzel highlights the lives of Iranians who escaped Iran because they practice Baha'ism. Franzel discusses how Iranians who practiced Baha'ism lived as a persecuted minority in Iran and how coming to the United States offered them opportunities to live their lives.

Inside front cover for the January 1983 Salt Magazine, with information on Salt's 10th anniversary.

In order to understand the art of ice fishing, Steve Bragdon visited Don Shaw and his ice shack. Bragdon documents the work Shaw does in his shack in order to ice fish and the methods he uses.

Prior to the year 2000, many communties began to prepare for any crisis that may have presented itself once the new year rolled in. Meagan Gould speaks to individuals involved with Y2K preparations to understand the measures of precaution that were taken for the new millennium.

Within the Education Department of the Maine State Prison, inmates are offered an opportunity to join a program geared towards giving inmates a way to prepare in rejoin public society. Hilary Niles discusses the Pre-Release Exit Program and the experiences of inmates within the prison.