A retired physician and rheumatologist, Dr. Phil Thompson follows a monotonous, yet interesting life. Molly Myers highlights Dr. Thompson's routines and daily activities.

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Salt investigates what life was like for river drivers and loggers in the woods.

Salt explores how women at logging camps spend their time, and the hard work they do.

Salt seeks to understand what draws men to the river driving business.

Salt explores what the end of river driving means for those who have made it their entire life.

Section of Salt 2 on the topic of making products at home.

Following a tradition of farm work before mechanized farming, Clifford and Belle Jackson continue to farm the old way. Kim Lovejoy documents the activities that the Jackson's perform on their farm to retain old farming habits.

Living out in West Peru, Mary Turner always has stories to share. Kelly Emery visits Turner and learns how to make butter on a churn.

Before doctors found cures to certain ailments, people used old remedies as medicine. Laurie Smith investigates the kind of herbs that were used to cure sickness.

Struggling to get by year by year, the Bubier family in Washington County piece together a year of income from seasonal work. Mark Childs documents how the Bubier family survives in rural Maine.

Pam Berry captures the life of Monica, a mother who lives in a schoolbus with her daughter while she builds a house for the future.