With the vote for same-sex marriage growing close, Mainers have to make a choice to vote yes or not. Elise Pepple documents how the Catholic Church has taken an approach against gay marriage, and how one Catholic does not her Catholic values get in the way of advocating for gay marriage.

In order to offer a practical way to bury loved ones, Cedar Brook Burial Ground greatly reduces the cost of an average funeral, causing people in Maine to rethink funeral traditions. Molly Jean Bennett investigates how this type of burial functions, and the radical topic of home funerals by speaking to two Mainers who buried a loved one on their own terms.

Pamela Wood speaks about the thoughts that Mainers and non-Mainers have about the state, in regarding to myth and reality.

In Maine, there are stage storytellers who keep stories about the state alive, in part due to state pride. Tim Peterson documents the work that storytellers do to recount stories about Maine, and speaks about the different themes that present themselves in the stories.

Introduction to three articles on how young Mainers feel about working in the tourist trade.

Column by Thomas Bradbury on the native Mainer's attitude towards party going.

Introduction to articles in this issue of Salt magazine on the topic of what it means to be a Mainer, and the displacement of Maine people.

Pamela Wood responds to the possibility of Maine having a nuclear dump site.

Smith Galtney documents the locations where Mainers who have battled with drug and alcohol addictions were able to find a chance to recover.

By speaking with old-time Mainers, Jay York and other Salt students were able to learn the proper way to eat a lobster. York documents the experience.

Rachel Hermans Goldman captures the life of Bob Crowley, winner of season 17 of the television reality show Survivor, who works as a typical Mainer outdoors in retirement.

As the only bear hunter that does not use baiting, hounding, or trapping, Joe Gibbs has received both praise and insults. Brit Hanson documents the efforts in Maine to stop cruel methods of bear hunting, and how Gibbs has fallen into the middle of the debate.