As a longshoreman, Ed Barnes has had experience loading many ships into the Eastport breakwater. Pamela Wood highlights how Barnes came into his line of work.

In an effort to be thrifty and pass the time, New Englanders go to the dump to pick for items. Sean Riley documents the work dump pickers do and the kinds of items they find.

Called names when they were young, Lauretta Elie and Emily Kinney were picked on for not being able to read. Melissa Buxton profiles how Elie and Kinney live and deal with being illiterate.

Tim Burns investigates the experiment of raising cashmere goats in Maine. Burns visits farms in Maine to learn about how these goats are raised and how this fits into a Maine lifestyle.

When back-to-landers decided to start their farm, they were faced with a hard choice of switching crops and growing to a market economy or losing their land. Andrew Reiner documents how farmers at Good Earth Farm live a rural lifestyle and the challenges they have faced.

At the Opportunity Farm for Boys, at-risk youths are able to receive help and education. Jill Smith discusses the programs offered at the farm to assist the youth's who live there.

In order to get the latest gossip about what is going on around Munjoy Hill, people go to Renee's Variety Store in Portland. Bonnie Bragon travels to Renee's to get the latest news.

Michael Luce discusses the process of creating a casket for his mother who recently passed away. Luce speaks about the importance of going through the process of crafting the casket himself, and about the life of his mother.

With an interest in firearms from a young age, Monty Washburn began making guns for himself. Laurie Astrowsky and Mark Emerson document Washburn's interest in guns and the work that goes into crafting one.

As a more recent resident of Eastport, Meg McGarvey already feels like more firmly implanted in Eastport than in any other place. Pamela Wood highlights the work McGarvey wants to do working on the city's Economic Development Committee.

Kendrick Kwok captures a photograph of a girl appearing to fly in the air with the help of a cluster of hot air balloons she is holding.

In Salt's first guest article, John E. Chaisson writes about his childhood days in the Maine woods.