Maine Mead Works produces locally sourced honey wine, handmade by a Portland couple and their few employees. Kira Goldenberg highlights how Carly Cope and Ben Alexander have plans for expansion, but have to decide if that will jeopardize the artisan sensibility.

Portland, Maine's business tend to close up shop in the early evening. But the third shift and overnight workers of the peninsula are still hard at work. Here is a Saturday night when I got to meet a few of them.

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

Guide to help people find important places to eat in Maine.

Living in Eastport for 73 years, Helen Huntley's view of the city is shaped by her time there, and short time spent away. Pamela Wood speaks to Huntley about what life used to be like in the town.

Standing at four and a half feet tall, Ida Allen can stand up for herself. Anne Gorham documents Allen's life as the daughter of a settler and growing up in the wilderness of Maine.

Contribution page from the December 1975 Salt Magazine.

Contribution page from the April 1976 Salt Magazine.

Staff, contributors, trustees, and academic board members are listed.

Lynn Kippax Jr. shows Dave Marston wheeling strings of smoked herring from the smokehouse to the boning room.

For the town of Eastport, the Fourth of July offers a chance to celebrate being Eastport. Hugh French looks at how the Fourth brings the community together.

Although Great Diamond Island spans over 400 acres of land in Casco Bay, the island is split into two sides, leading to different ways the residents of the island view themselves. Bogart Salzberg investigates the two "sides" of the island to learn more about the island communities on Great Diamond Island.