In Portland, the Maine Time Dollar Network allows community members to perform various services for each other that is bringing the community closer together. Stephanie Congdon explores how this network works and discusses how services are traded.

A lobsterman for over 40 years, Stilly Griffin hauls traps from his boat, the Lorraine E. Herbert Baum III and Kristy Bunnell capture Griffin's story of working as a lobsterman.

List of back issues and books from Salt.

Forward to by Robert Coles to Maine: A Peopled Landscape.

London Chretien discusses the topic of community supported agriculture and how certain individuals practice this type of alternative farming in Maine.

Salt informs readers that this View From Pier Road will be the last time this column is published.

Since many people do not own a piano at home, the Portland Public Library provides a piano on site that patrons can use for an hour to practice. Patrons and library staff discuss the convenience of having a free public piano at the library.

Table of contents for December 1997 Salt Magazine.

Thomas Bradbury recounts the history of Pinkham Hall and how it is fitting that a group like Salt would find a home there.

Table of contents for the Salt 2007-2008 Magazine.

Prior to the release of The Salt Book, Pamela Wood speaks to readers about the contents of the book and the release parties.

As a native son of Kennebunk, Bertram Hanscom has many stories about the town. Kim Lovejoy visits with Bertram and his wife, Helen, to learn about their pastimes in Kennebunk.