She'd throw open the throttle and crouch forward as the boat's nose came up and its stern dug deep, her six-foot frame rocking against swells that thudded the fiberglass hull. It was her habit to strike west from the harbor, into the channel that split her island in two. Reprinted courtesy of HarperCollins Publishers.Ī day after the storm passed, Carol Pruitt Moore climbed into her skiff and set off for the ruins of Canaan. In eager anticipation of this evening discussion, we’re offering a bit of a preview below of the powerful story courtesy of HarperCollins Publishers.įrom CHESAPEAKE REQUIEM: A Year with the Watermen of Vanishing Tangier Island, by Earl Swift, published by Dey Street. Joined by prominent lifetime Tangier residents and watermen, Cook Cannon and Ooker Eskridge, Swift will discuss with the group Tangier's past, present, and tenuous future.

But the very water that has long sustained Tangier now erases the island day by day, wave by wave, as the island sinks and the Chesapeake rises. Often called the softshell crab capital of the world, Tangier's surrounding waters are integral to its way of life. On Thursday, November 15, CBF is thrilled to host author Earl Swift as he discusses his recent book Chesapeake Requiem: A Year with the Watermen of Vanishing Tangier Island. Swift spent roughly two years living in the watermen community on Tangier Island, a 1.3-square-mile spit of land in the center of the Chesapeake Bay.

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