Publication Date

11-1974

Volume

1

Issue

4

Keywords

Fishermen, Lobstering, Dowsing, Local History, Ghosts, Storytelling, Churches, Beekeeping, Agriculture, Charcoal, Orchardists, Apple Cider, Dairy Industry, Antiques and Collectibles

Disciplines

Human Ecology | Social and Cultural Anthropology | Sociology of Culture | Work, Economy and Organizations

Description

“Why the name SALT? Because salt is a natural symbol for the magazine — the salt of the sea, salt-washed soil, salt marshes and salty people, the kind that won’t use two words if they can get by with one.”

Contents

  • 2 Settin’ on his Independence Clifford Jackson farms the old way with ‘gimcracks’ and horse power, and then “sets” on his independence.
  • 18 How to Build a Lobster Trap Stilly Griffin shows how to make a lobster trap.
  • 26 Dowsing Looking for water with a dowsing stick still works for some people in Maine. who tell how it’s done.
  • 30 Wildwood Chapel A small stone chapel in a wooded spot where the field mice run back and forth on the rafters while the people sing.
  • 34 Ned and Nell The ghosts that inhabit a house in Kennebunk.
  • 40 Wild Honeybee Hunt Monty Washburn takes us on a wild honeybee hunt in Kittery Point.
  • 47 Those ‘Friendly Little Devils’ How wild honeybees live, work and reproduce, as told to us by Monty Washburn.
  • 52 Charcoal Making Ava Ross describes how charcoal was made by her husband back in the days when it was a good living.
  • 56 Squeezin’ Season Cider making time in New England. Reid Chapman tells how it was done years ago, and Bruce Gile tells how it’s done now.
  • 62 How to Make Cottage Cheese Eleanor Nedeau makes cottage cheese for us the old way.
  • 67 Skinned Knuckles Willie Grendell is a stone mason with a flair for tall tales.
  • 71 Letters
  • 72 Some friends. Bert Hanscom and our other SALT friends, continued from inside cover page.

Publisher

SALT, Inc.

City

Kennebunkport, Maine

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