Publication Date

8-1-1978

Volume

4

Issue

2

Keywords

Local history, Folklore, Oral History, Sailors, Cultural Traditions, Immigrants, Greek Community, Textile Mills, Canoe Paddles, Boat Building, Folk Medicine, Lilacs, Island Communities, Local Businesses

Disciplines

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

Description

    Contents
  • 2 Grandfather’s Golden Earring Sailing around Cape Horn in the mid 1800’s was a dangerous feat. The 90-year-old Furbish twins of Kennebunk recall their Grandfather Furbish wore “a thin gold earring in his left ear” as proud proof of the voyage.
  • 8 ‘Like It, No Like It-Take It’ Maria Gollaros of Biddeford describes her 60 years working in the fabric mills of New England and her struggles as a young Greek immigrant woman in America.
  • 16 Felling a Tree George and Roy Cole fell a giant locust tree in East Kingston, New Hampshire. Father and son continue to log as Roy Cole has always logged, hauling trees out of the wood with horse and scoot.
  • 24 ‘Somewhere Inside This Piece of Wood Is a Paddle’ Monty Washburn of Kittery Point demonstrates how to hand hew a canoe paddle so lightweight you can balance it on one finger.
  • 33 Energy in a Boatyard SALT now operates from a working boatyard at the mouth of the Kennebunk River. Young Salt apprentices make the magazine, while other apprentices build boats, repair lobster traps, pour concrete and weed truck farms, as the Salt concept broadens to include a variety of native Maine crafts.
  • 41 Cod Liver Oil Douglass Nunan of Cape Porpoise tells how he helped his grandfather, Payson Huff, make cod liver oil. “Everybody at the head of the cove got smelled out. He used to tell them it was a healthy smell.”
  • 45 ‘I go out and Talk to Them All’ Ken Berdeen of Kennebunk talks to his lilacs-all 1,585 bushes. People come from miles around to see them in the spring.
  • 52 Swan’s Island How is life on a small remote island off the coast of Maine? Three natives tell: fishermen Levi Moulden and Carlton Joyce, and captain of the ferryboat, Dick Holmes. Part I of a three part series.
  • 68 Maine Diner One small diner on Route 1 in Wells, Maine, closes down for the busy summer season and stays closed until the fall when Route 1 is quiet again. Owner Louie Toton tells why.

Publisher

SALT, Inc.

City

Kennebunkport, Maine

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