Horton, author of Turning the Tide and several other books about the bay, spent three years living on Tangier Island’s neighbor to the north, Smith Island, to publish his book An Island out of Time in 1996.Īt the event, Earl Swift described the lobbying campaign by Tangier Island’s mayor to convince the U.S. It also raises profound and troubling questions about America: about climate change denialism from the crab shacks on Tangier Island to the White House and what our country should do about the inundation of a growing number of waterfront communities caused by sea-level rise.Įarl Swift, a former reporter for the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot, joined famed Chesapeake Bay author Tom Horton and myself in a panel discussion of the Chesapeake and climate change at the Baltimore Book Festival on Sunday. The author, Earl Swift, produced a complex and beautifully written book by spending 14 months living among the watermen on the tiny, isolated crabbing town just south of the Maryland/Virginia state line.īut it’s not just a book about Chesapeake culture. That would make Tangiermen some of America’s first climate change refugees. Chesapeake Requiem is a new book about the culturally rich and historically unique community of watermen on Tangier Island in the southern Chesapeake Bay and how sea-level rise may soon wash it all away.
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