Pamela Wood offers an introduction to readers for this double issue, that touches on the continuity of work, continuing harvest of land, and making of things.

Since 1992 Mike Brooks has participated in marathons all over the United States, and is currently working on doing a third marathon in each state. Julia Davis speaks to Brooks about getting into running marathons and some injuries he faced along the way.

Introduction to articles in this issue of Salt magazine on the topic of what it means to be a Mainer, and the displacement of Maine people.

Jackie Driscoll documents the life of Dee Dee Caldwell, a farmer who grows organic beef and dairy.

Table of contents for December 1990 Salt Magazine.

Table of contents for September 1992 Salt Magazine.

Back cover for Maine: A Peopled Landscape.

Inside back cover for the December 1994 Salt Magazine with list of back issues and books from Salt.

Despite the outrage from fishermen, sea farmers are fencing off sections of coastal bottom. George Carey documents the controversy between mussel growers and lobstermen.

Bios of the contributors to the December 1990 Salt Magazine, with information on this issue.

For three generations, a colony of Swedish farmers have raised potatoes and families in rural Aroostook County. Laura Johnson highlights how these farmers are close knit and hard working.

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.