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.

On her farm under the shadow of the White Mountains, Helen Perley raises animals. Val Gould and Elizabeth Tanner document the work Perley does on her farm with animals.

Annalise Marcus documents the lives of people who live in Kennedy Park and their efforts to make better lives for themselves through education.

Guide to help people find important places to eat in Maine.

Continuing the story of stone walls, Mark Serreze speaks to Harvey Bixby about the mortared wall. Bixby discusses his work as a mason and creating stone walls.

Readers write in response to the work Salt has done.

Thalassa Raasch documents the lives of Randy and Sarah Bellavance, a blind married couple. Raasch highlights how the couple live and see their day-to-day lives.

Thalassa Raasch documents the lives of Randy and Sarah Bellavance, a blind married couple. Raasch highlights how the couple live and see their day-to-day lives.

In Maine, it is common for one person's trash to become a treasure to someone else. Edite Pedrosa visits the Montsweag Flea Market to learn about the flea market business functions.

Maine Lobsterman Dustin Delano is dead set against the building of a massive experimental wind turbine in the waters where he and his family have fished for generations. But what he wants may not matter.

In Kittery, Freddie Cooper practices the dying art of spinning pewter. Janice Coyne visits Cooper to learn about his craft of metal spinning.

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.