For over 35 years, the Custom House Wharf has conducted business. Peter Millard explores how the people at the wharf have their own unwritten rules and way of doing things.

Short write ups on going out east and the new Maine license plate.

Table of contents for May 1988 Salt Magazine.

Pamela Wood offers an introduction to readers for this double issue, that touches on the continuity of work, continuing harvest of land, and making of things.

List of Salt alumni from 1972-2003.

Hugh French uncovers how myth binds Moose Island to the islands of New Brunswick, and how a creation of visible reminders about the border reinforces their separation from Canada.

Dottie O'Keefe visits Walter Stinson, a resident of Swan's Island to learn about his life. Stinson speaks about his work as a fisherman and working in a factory.

With questions about lighthouses, Salt students set out to explore the mystery and romance that surrounds lighthouses in Maine. Stephanie Wood and others document the importance of lighthouses in Maine, and speak to individuals who are directly connected to them.

List of donors to the Salt Institute.

Pamela Wood speaks to Art Mackay regarding the raising of salmon and how it impacts the economics of Eastport. In the closing paragraphs of the magazine, Pamela Wood recounts the current situation in Eastport, and how there is promise for the town.

In Portland, El Sinai Church on Brighton Avenue is the first majority Latino Evangelical church in the city, ministered by Israel Ortiz. Anne Hoffman discusses the growing hispanic community in Portland, and highlights Ortiz's own journey to Portland.

Jacob Kowalski documents radio broadcasting and night time radio. The interviewees express their experiences with working the late night shift.