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Title
Organic Farm Northport
Year
1991
Devora Block highlights the lives of the Metcalf family, who run a self-sufficient farm in Northport, Maine. Block discusses the daily routines and farm work performed by the family on their farm.
Type
published content
Title
Some Kind of Farmer
Year
2004
Katie Freeman explores the history of Bowie Farm in Durham, speaking to members of the Bowie family about the business.
Type
Writing
Title
The Game Farm and Visitors Center
Year
1994
Nicholas DuLong explores the history and operations of the Game Farm in Gray, Maine, which aims to help with the rehabilitation of wildlife in Maine.
Type
published content
Title
Steps in Making a SnowShoe
Year
1975
From his workshop in Caratunk, Walter York creates snowshoes. Anne Gorham covers the steps of making the bows for snowshoes.
Type
published content
Title
Put the Hammer Down
Year
1978
Known around southern Maine for his unbelievable feat of pounding nails with his bare hands, Joseph Leo Thibeau has become something of a legend. E.J. Blake reports on Thibeau's life and his hand skills.
Type
Writing
Title
Lesbian Family
Year
1997
Carolyn Mix documents the lives of Terry, Lib, and Nick who are redefining the meaning of the traditional family unit. As a lesbian family living in suburban Portland, they build their own unique structure to define what a family is for them and the traditions they hold.
Type
published content
Title
November 1987 Salt Magazine, View From Pier Road
Year
1987
Short write ups on going out east and the new Maine license plate.
Type
published content
Title
A Long Pond Story
Year
1994
Kimberly Hasling discusses the history of the Paradise family, while also covering local history on Long Pond. She talks to family members regarding their family stories and their ways of life, uncovering how a family became ingrained to the place where they lived.
Type
published content
Title
Running the Holmes Packing Plant: Moses Pike
Year
1983
Coming from a long line of frontier men who built Eastport, Moses Pike recounts his experience running his sardine factory before he sold it.
Type
published content
Title
Sam
Year
1979
In the Jonesport-Beals Island area, one man has fished more years than most. Andrea Downs and Cindy Pinkham speak to Sam Polk about his love for the sea.
Type
published content
Title
We Are What We Buy
Year
1989
George Lewis, sociologist and Maine native, explains why we are creatures of the culture that we create and consume.
Type
Writing
Title
What Rests Beneath
Year
2009
Fishing for sea urchins in the waters of Downeast Maine, Dan and Jamie Header face a changing market, along with the typical dangers of diving for urchins. Meghan Daniels discusses the methods that the Header's use for urchin diving and how the urchin industry is changing with added regulations and depressed prices.
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