Pamela Wood introduces readers to the first half of this Salt issue, dealing with the island community on Mount Desert Island.

Project discussing the lives of handicapped individuals.

Tania van Bergen highlights the life of Pam Ward, owner of a recycling redemption center. Van Bergen covers the work that Ward puts into her business and her personal life.

Since he was young, Reid Chapman has enjoyed the outdoors and farming. Ernest Eaton and others document the story of Chapman, an 80 year old man who farms in West Kennebunk.

Making soap all of her life, Mrs. Joseph Sullivan shows Salt students how her craft is performed. Mrs. Sullivan guides Lorraine Kingsbury and others through the process from the start.

Living on Mount Desert Island for nearly 66 years, Draper Liscomb has spent his whole life making a living in Maine. Bethany Aronow documents how Liscomb left Maine for work, but came back because he knew he could make it in Maine.

For an island 12 miles off the mainland, there is only one store on North Haven, Waterman & Co. Tina Waterman documents the story of the store, as told by its current owner, Frank Waterman.

Susanna Robbins documents the various way individuals in Portland celebrate and prepare for the Fourth of July.