Bios of the contributors to the September 1994 Salt Magazine, with information on the Salt Center.

Leah Schmalz captures the work of Peter Hagerty, founder of a Russian-American yarn company.

Salt invites scholars to a conference to speak about how folk culture and popular culture interact. Salt offers a report on the conference.

Tonee Harbert captures the lives and work of Jamaican apple pickers who spend more time in American than in Jamaica.

Tonee Harbert captures the lives and work of Jamaican apple pickers who spend more time in American than in Jamaica.

Tonee Harbert captures the lives and work of Jamaican apple pickers who spend more time in American than in Jamaica.

G. Ligaiya Romero documents how two Somali-American cousins are striving to find their place in Lewiston through the hip-hop scene.

Gabriel Etenberg meets with individuals in Waldo County to learn about their craft of making furniture from twigs.

Fleeing Iraq because of their cooperation with American forces, former interpreters have found a new home in Maine. Kirk Torregrossa captures the lives of Iraqis living in Maine.

There was a time when Maine was marketed as a landscape for escape, known as vacationland. Brett Jenks explores how Maine is now marketed as "The Way Life Should Be."

Steve Cartwright, Sheryl Lane and Lynn Kippax Jr. document the lives of individuals who live on Indian Island.

The legend behind the Penobscot River goes that the river itself shaped the culture of Penobscot people, and provided for them. Amanda Abel captures how the Penobscot people deal with the river being used for the needs of the industrial world.