Pamela Wood, operating out of a high school in Kennebunk, Maine, published a New England version called The Salt Book. In place of log cabins and coverlets, it substituted stone walls, snowshoes, and other “Yankee doings.” Wood, a gifted writer, was particularly concerned with stressing the compatibility of traditional lifeways with ecological imperatives. “We can harness nature,” she wrote, “but she pulls us to our knees and may drag us to our death if we don’t break the traces.”
