For many women beauty pageants are a full time investment. Diane Cook discusses the pageant scene in Maine by speaking to contestants, volunteers, and pageant producers.

Phil Grant takes a photograph of Andrew Davis, a back-to-lander, outside his family's farm.

Pamela Wood recounts 10 years of work and progress that Salt students have done.

Inside front cover for the August 1989 Salt Magazine, with advertisement for the Bangor Theological Seminary.

Advertisement for Bath Iron Works.

Inside front cover for the November 1987 Salt Magazine with masthead.

Advertisement for the Salt Institute.

Zachary Crabtree highlights a rehearsal of the Casco Bay Tummlers, a band that performs klezmer music, a type of music traditional of Ashkenazi Jews in Eastern Europe.

List of back issues and books from Salt.

Dana Eastman, an avid fisherman, runs the Tackle Shop in Portland and instructs customers on how to catch bigger fish than they could before. Ian Moulton speaks to Eastman about his business and passion for fishing.

As more opportunities grew for women in the workplace, and religious activity became accessible to the lay person, many religious communities saw a drop in numbers. Leith Warlick explores the Sisters of Mercy community and discusses the traditions that they continue to practice at St. Joseph's Convent in Portland.

From dawn to dusk, friends and neighbors of Stacy Wentworth helped him raise a 50 foot barn in Arundel. Anne Gorham and others document the work that went into putting the barn together.