While serving time in Cumberland County Jail, Jessica Bowley decided to turn her life around through the help of My Sister's Keeper, a non-profit that links volunteer mentors with incarcerated women. Kai Lindemulder documents the friendship between Bowley and her mentor Ann McDonough.

While facing an eight-year battle with multiple myeloma, Mary Jo Taylor received companionship from Jeffrey Wood, resulting in a great friendship and the creation of eHope. Kai Lindemulder documents the work done by Wood and other volunteers and caregivers who provide community and hope to patients facing life-threatening illnesses.

Introduction to the second half of the magazine, which covers topics related to Swan's Island.

Understanding how lobsters might be thinking is important for a lobsterman. Herbert Baum III speaks to his father about getting to the next lobstering spot before others.

A lot of goths become goths in high school, but those teenage years can be a blur of isolation, disappointment, heartbreak, and missed opportunities. In this piece, Trent Kay Maverick gets a second crack at “being cool in high school” by training to be a club dj at Plague, Portland’s weekly goth/industrial dance night.

Kai Lindemulder and Adrienne V. Miller document the life of Jessica Bowley, a woman who spent time in Cumberland County Jail. Lindemulder highlights how My Sister's Keeper in Cape Elizabeth allows women like Bowley to transition back into society.

Sally Soule discusses the hobby of birding with various individuals, learning about birds and personal stories.

In Maine, fishing has always been a way of life. Pamela Wood and Salt students offer an overview of fishing in Maine.

Table of contents for December 1978 Salt Magazine.

Living as homesteaders, families push for the importance of food growth, and instilling those values into their children. Rachel Hurn speaks to two homesteading families about their beliefs regarding food and living off the land.

At the only sardine factory in operation in Eastport, workers speak about their experiences. Pamela Wood documents work and life at the sardine plant.

In the hayday of the granite industry, thousands of Maine quarrymen and stone cutters worker in over a hundred quarries. Amy Potokar documents the work that a few determined artisans continue to do with granite on Crotch Island.