Bios of the contributors to the September 1988 Salt Magazine.

Bound to the Rancourt Dairy Farm in Vassalboro, hired hands and owners work restless work days. Bonnie Bragdon documents the work done at the farm, and how people feel about their work.

In Turner, Maine, farmers are known for their competitiveness. John G. Dale highlights the lives of farmers and farm life in Turner.

List of back issues and books from Salt.

Pamela Wood introduces readers to the topic of poverty, which is the focus of this issue of Salt Magazine.

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.

Struggling to get by year by year, the Bubier family in Washington County piece together a year of income from seasonal work. Mark Childs documents how the Bubier family survives in rural Maine.

List of back issues and books from Salt.

At Tom Gyger's orchard near Bridgton, Jamaican apple pickers live a life between two worlds. Lisa Rathke follows around 13 pickers through the harvest and their daily lives.

Tonee Harbert captures the lives and work of Jamaican apple pickers who spend more time in American than in Jamaica.

As one of the best farmers in Aroostook County, Mike Brown never sold a potato that he wouldn't put on his own table. Christopher Knight documents why Brown quit one day after his seed was bought and loan was approved.

Chris Knight captures images of people in Benedicta, Maine.