Tangier Island, home to a Virginia fishing town and about 400 people, could be saturated by rising seas and convert to uninhabitable wetlands by 2051, according to an analysis released Monday. The ...
Imagery representing the colorful island life. Tangier is located twelve miles offshore, in the Chesapeake Bay. Tangier Island is a tightknit, culturally unique fishing community focused on commercial ...
On a summer day that felt more like fall, I finally made my way to a tiny island in the Chesapeake Bay. Tangier aka the “soft-shell crab capital of the world” located off the Eastern Shore in Accomack ...
ACCOMACK COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — Tangier Island, a small Virginia island in the Chesapeake Bay, has been awarded a $2.3 million grant for environmental protection and mitigation projects. According to ...
TANGIER ISLAND – A teenager wanders at dusk, playing pop hits from 2010 on his phone at top volume. Old men speak a dialect similar to Cornish. The mayor has an office in town, but spends his days ...
NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — Inez Pruitt has watched the coronavirus spread throughout the world from the relative safety of Tangier Island, a small fishing community in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay. But ...
TANGIER ISLAND – A teenager wanders at dusk, playing pop hits from 2010 on his phone at top volume. Old men speak a dialect similar to Cornish. The mayor has an office in town, but spends his days ...
Nearly every day, Carol Pruitt Moore hops in her small skiff and visits Uppards, an abandoned island just north of Tangier in the Chesapeake Bay. She combs the wind-swept, rapidly eroding sod and silt ...
TANGIER ISLAND, Va. — Inez Pruitt has watched the coronavirus spread throughout the world from the relative safety of Tangier Island, a small, fishing community in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay.