The January 1983 issue of Salt Magazine features stories on island communities, public clocks, and Indian culture.

Divider for the section of Maine: A Peopled Landscape on images related to the inland.

How gynecologists learn to do a pelvic exam remains a mystery for many people. Behind the scenes is a community of trained lay people called Gynecological Teaching Associates (GTAs.) These individuals instruct medical students on how to give breast and pelvic exams with a patient-centered approach. However, numerous teaching hospitals still violate patient consent supposedly in the service of medical education. Hear directly from GTAs as they show students how to locate a cervix while interrogating the medical system.

Drive about 20 miles north of Portland, Maine and you’ll arrive at Pineland. It looks like a college campus: brick buildings with stately pillars, it’s surrounded by rolling hills. But Pineland’s exterior doesn’t tell you about its history. It opened as an institution for people with disabilities in 1908. Alexa Burke spoke with people who lived and worked at Pineland to learn about the history of institutionalization and the legacies that remain today.

Drive about 20 miles north of Portland, Maine and you’ll arrive at Pineland. It looks like a college campus: brick buildings with stately pillars, it’s surrounded by rolling hills. But Pineland’s exterior doesn’t tell you about its history. It opened as an institution for people with disabilities in 1908. Alexa Burke spoke with people who lived and worked at Pineland to learn about the history of institutionalization and the legacies that remain today.

Basic facts on various ethnic groups that live in the state of Maine.

Readers write in response to the work Salt has done.

Chad Jones recounts his daily routine issuing parking tickets and the people he encounters everyday on the job.

New feature with news on the Salt alumni.

Amy Ferguson documents the importance people place on owning a gun in rural Maine.

Timothy Mitchell documents the lives of people who have adopted their children internationally.

Alexander Kreher explores the motivations that people have to commemorate their stories with ink on their skin.