Thank you note to specific individuals during Thanksgiving.

Table of contents for April 1976 Salt Magazine.

Now a school teacher, one woman recalls her childhood experience with rum running.

In order to understand the art of ice fishing, Steve Bragdon visited Don Shaw and his ice shack. Bragdon documents the work Shaw does in his shack in order to ice fish and the methods he uses.

Making soap all of her life, Mrs. Joseph Sullivan shows Salt students how her craft is performed. Mrs. Sullivan guides Lorraine Kingsbury and others through the process from the start.

Order form for a Salt Magazine subscription.

Ken Kobre captures the lives of truckers and workers who frequent Dysart's Truckstop in Bangor, a Maine tradition for 18 years.

As a place for truckers to get some rest and eat, Dysart's provides everything they need. Tracy Timlin speaks to truckers about their experiences on the road.

In Lubec, Maine, McCurdy's Smokehouse is the last commercial smokehouse in the country. Hugh French explores how the smokehouse functions and learns about producing smoked herring by hand.

Salt students capture the work that goes into smoking herring.

Column by Thomas Bradbury with a tribute to Sterling "Tad" Dow, who served on Salt's Board of Trustees and the Kennebunkport Conservation Trust.

List of back issues and books from Salt.