Living in rural Maine causes concerns regarding ways to get treatment for health issues like cancer. Manda Lillie explores how people who live in small, rural communities manage to get treatments for their health with services like Angel Flight, which can fly patients to get treatment.

Caitie Whelan highlights the life of Roger Berle, a man who actively donates and fundraises money to support his community.

Tania van Bergen highlights the life of Pam Ward, owner of a recycling redemption center. Van Bergen covers the work that Ward puts into her business and her personal life.

Lila Dobbs highlights the life of Polly Mahoney, owner of Mahoosuc Guide Service in Newry. Dobbs covers Mahoney's early life, the start of her business, and dogs sledding.

Heather Coryell visits Gladys McLean to speak about her personal history and working as a waitress.

Despite her youth, healthy lifestyle, and idyllic setting in rural Maine, Kelsey George feels herself becoming sicker and sicker. Without the help of doctors, Kelsey figures out the culprit. She then repairs her health and sets out to protect others from having to go through a frightening health crisis like she experienced. The personal becomes political.

The Island Soundscape Project documents the sounds of the Maine coast, from the everyday to the highly unusual. They record birdcalls and babbling brooks, but also underwater animal calls and the weird moaning of suspension bridges. Their work draws on the traditions of soundscape studies, a field based on understanding the way people relate to their environment and their communities by studying sound. Its part scientific and part artistic, but it is all about the importance of learning to listen closely.

Robin Lea highlights the life of Sister Joanne Roy, covering topics regarding Roy's social work, spiritual beliefs, and ecology.

Pamela Wood speaks to Art Mackay regarding the raising of salmon and how it impacts the economics of Eastport. In the closing paragraphs of the magazine, Pamela Wood recounts the current situation in Eastport, and how there is promise for the town.

Even at old age, Elizabeth Shames continues to dance with the Perennial Effects dance group. Sarah Merrill highlights the life of Shames, discussing her history with dancing and her personal life.

Liz Webler documents the life of Lorelie Lowell, discussing her rural lifestyle and hobbies.

Mostly white communities retell legends and folklore about Native Americans all over the country - all the time - including in Biddeford, Maine. But these stories about Native Americans are not traditional Native American stories. John Bear Mitchell and Carol Dana are traditional native storytellers from the Penobscot Nation. They talk about storytelling in their communities and why traditional native stories are stories that can only be evoked by a people who have actually lived that history.