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Rural Life
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Radio
Title
Smells Like Money, To Me
Year
2003
Zac Barr highlights the work of sea cucumber harvesters and processors, and discusses how the business brings in good money for the workers and fishermen. Barr also speaks on the Hispanic community that works for the Cherry Point plant.
Type
Writing
Title
Living in Limbo - After Allagash
Year
2004
Nick Crawford highlights the work of the Troy Jackson, a state representative in Augusta. Crawford discusses how Jackson commutes between Augusta and Fort Kent every week to be with his family and his other job as a logger.
Type
Writing
Title
Deep Pockets
Year
2012
In the town of Searsport, one of the country's largest natural gas companies intends to build an expansive propane storage facility. Diane Sterberg investigates how the local residents gave enough support due to promises of economic prosperity, despite opponents of the project feeling deceived about the integrity of the process.
Type
published content
Title
September 1988 Salt Magazine, Eating in Maine
Year
1988
Guide to help people find important places to eat in Maine.
Type
published content
Title
Bean Hole Beans
Year
1975
In the Kennedy family, bean hole bean baking has always been a tradition. Suellen Simpson travels to the Kennedy household in The Forks to learn about baking beans in the ground.
Type
published content
Title
Wreck of the Schooner Charles
Year
1980
Dorothy O'Keefe recounts the tale of the the Schooner Charles.
Type
Radio
Title
Reenacting Like They're Related
Year
2009
Having an interest in history and wanting to keep it alive, Kate and Chris Nulle became Civil War reenactors. Laura Herberg speaks to the Nulle's about their passion for reenacting and joining the 15th Alabama.
Type
Photography
Title
Living on the Tides: Steve Leighton
Year
2007
Sarah Mathers Breul documents the work that Steve Leighton does as a smelt fisher.
Type
Multimedia
Title
Like Father, Like Son: Dan's More Than a Shoe Repairman
Year
2015
Despite all of the change in Portland, Dan Lentz's shop, Roy's Shoes, has stayed the same. Emma Nobel profiles the work Lentz does as a cobbler.
Type
Multimedia
Title
Undocumented
Year
2014
Living in Maine as illegal immigrants, two individuals speak about how the decisions their parents made coming to the United States illegally continue to impact their lives today. Pang Tubhirun documents how she and Marc Banzuela cope with fear of deportation, and how becoming DACA recipients changed their lives.
Type
published content
Title
Hitchhikers
Year
1987
Stephen Donahue documents a conversation between two girls, who talk about school friendship.
Type
Photography
Title
On The Surface
Year
2009
Denise Sears documents how a couple, who are both small business owners, live completely different lives due to their workdays.
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