With a curiosity on how to build boats in bottles. Howard Doane and Bill Shook speak to Richard Nickerson about his craft. Doane and Shook document Nickerson's process of building the boats and placing them in the bottles.

In order to understand how gill netting works, Keith Euler took a trip with Herbert Hutchins out to sea. Euler documents the work Hutchins does with gill nets and how he sticks with netting year round.

Tonee Harbert focuses on the work Jamaican apple pickers do at Douglas Hill Orchard in South Bridgton.

Barbershops are social places with a crowd of regulars. Julia Mickenberg takes readers inside two barbershops to highlight the culture within a barbershop.

As a group project, members of Salt document the topics of river driving, logging, and cooking for loggers.

R. Todd Hoffman captures Jean Demetracopoulos in the process of haying near her farm, Fox Hill Farm.

Facing struggles in the poultry industry, the Cooperative Poultry Producers group is attempting to open a mobile processing plant for chicken processing. Genevieve Lysen speaks to poultry farmers regarding their industry and the need for a processing plant.

Sara Paul discusses the history of her home and speaks to members of the Balzano family about their time living in the house on Munjoy Hill.

Liza Buchbinder investigates the mental health system in Maine, speaking with caretakers and visting the Augusta Mental Health Institute.

R. Todd Hoffman captures Ray Ouellette tending to a Jacquard loom at Bates Mill in Lewiston.

Inside front cover for the June 1986 Salt Magazine with masthead.

Inside front cover for the October 1986 Salt Magazine with masthead.