Inside back cover for the December 1990 Salt Magazine, with holiday greetings from Maine's financial community.

Michael Beckman highlights the work of Lifeflight of Maine, a critical care helicopter transport service. Beckman speaks to a pilot and crew members about their experiences helping critical care patients.

For three months, Salt students visited the Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village as their guests. Rebecca Sheble documents how Maine's Shaker community has been able to grow within recent years by adapting to a changing world.

October 1947 was the year of the great fire in Maine. Dottie O'Keefe speaks to residents in Maine about their experiences when sixty fires raged for a week.

Short write ups on commuting in Maine, barbershop economics, and the expansion of Bath Iron Works.

Getting up at 5 o'clock every morning for the past two summers, Anne Pierter is a bait girl on a lobster boat. Anne Pierter documents her experience working on a lobster boat.

Spending countless hours a week creating porcelain figures, Muriel Reimer can create figures of various sizes. Lorraine Kingsbury visited Reimer to learn the work and detail that goes into the hobby.

In the 1800's, it was tradition for individuals sailing around Cape Horn to receive a small gold earring. Robin McGahey documents how one of these gold earrings belonged to the grandfather of Edith and Ethel Furbish.

Table of Contents for Maine: A Peopled Landscape.

For the past few years, William Whorf has taken up the hobby of repairing and restoring ship models. Martha Truscott and others speak to Whorf about his hobby and the intricate work that goes into it.

Coming to Maine as refugees, two Cambodian families experience contrasts from their old lives and new ones in a land with plenty. Marianne Ciampi highlights how these two families adapt to their new lives in Maine.

Lisa Rollins and Marc Labbe document the perceptions of Northern and Southern Maine, as seen by individuals who live on the opposite half.