Publication Date

6-1974

Volume

1

Issue

3

Keywords

Agriculture, Barns, Rural Landscapes, Shrimping, Trawling, Local History, Ship Models, Antiques and Collectibles, Smelting, Sports Fishing, Sailing Vessels

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 “Years ago almost everybody had a barn.” The handsome barns of Maine, inside and out, are shown to us by their owners.
  • 18 “Down She Goes” Shrimping with Dave Burnham and Herb Baum on the Capt. Jim.
  • 26 Town Meetin’ Arundel town meeting, a lively example of the old New England town meeting form of government, where people get together and “hash things out.”
  • 36 “Old Time Democracy” George Martin, moderator of Arundel town meeting, tells us why town meeting is “ole time democracy” at work.
  • 40 An Intricate Art: Restoring Ship Models William Whorf of Kennebunk has been building ship models “since I was a tiny boy.” He restores models now, and explains how it’s done.
  • 40 Smelting Bert Graves and Harvey Bixby are longtime smelt fishermen who share their experience with us.
  • 51 “Those Damn Mud Holes” A team of horses stood waiting all day long to pull people through the principal mud holes of Kennebunk.
  • 52 Fishing off a Sailing Vessel “In Them Days” Kenneth Hutchins remembers back to the early 1900’s when he was swordfishing and trawling from a sailing vessel.

Publisher

SALT, Inc.

City

Kennebunkport, Maine

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