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by Earl Swift


  Smith Island, 14, 39, 113–14, 120, 233, 338

  soda, 229

  soft crabs, 99–101, 132–34

  Solomons Island, 95

  Solomons Lump Light, 187

  Somers Cove, 119, 122

  Somers Cove Marina, 115–16

  sooks, 11, 29, 82, 316–17

  Southern Living (magazine), 154

  Sparks, Nicholas, 279

  spawning grounds, 26, 27, 29

  sponge, 27, 82

  Spottie (cat), 165–66

  squirrels, 49–50

  Sreedevi, 24, 82–83, 84, 147, 250, 293, 361–64

  “Star-Spangled Banner, The,” 63

  Steamboat Harbor, 129–30, 171

  Steele, Gregory C., 263–64, 270–74

  Steven Thomas, 161

  stewardship, 299–300

  storms, 161–68, 172–77, 370–71

  Stover, Patricia, 238–40, 244, 245

  Sunset Inn, 282–83

  Susquehanna River, 12, 64, 114

  Susquehanna River Valley, 64–65

  Swain, Arthur, 170

  Swain, Charles P., 69–70, 71–72, 168–70

  Swain Memorial United Methodist Church, 5–6, 14, 36, 57–58, 237–46, 320–21, 327, 356

  church split up, 238–46

  Daley wedding, 88–92

  funeral of Henrietta Wheatley, 70–73

  history of, 168–70, 199–200

  robbery, 204–5, 284–85

  Virginia Conference and, 199, 240–41, 243

  Tangier

  author’s kayaking trip, 18, 162–63

  author’s 2000 stay, 15–20

  barge project, 251–53, 407n

  climate change. See climate change

  corps proposal to save, 262–74

  demographics, 18, 19–20, 46, 49, 52, 104, 131, 171–72, 176–77, 228, 238, 372

  economy of, 131–32, 170–71. See also crabbing; oystering

  erosion. See erosion

  geography of, 12–13, 35–36, 47–52

  geological history of, 63–66

  history of, 53–57, 61–63, 102–4, 129–31, 170–72

  language, 38, 58, 100

  map of 1850, 66–68, 130

  naming of, 53

  religious faith. See Christian faith; New Testament Church; Swain Memorial United Methodist Church

  riprapping, 212, 213, 216–17, 260, 273

  seawall, 212, 213, 214–15, 217, 218, 258, 372, 377–78

  water tower, 27, 292, 305–8

  women of, 145–57

  youth of, 73–77, 223–28

  Tangier Channel, 211–12, 213

  Tangier Combined School, 47–48, 155

  enrollment, 232–33

  graduation ceremony, 73–77

  Kayes and, 304–5

  teachers, 233–34

  Tangier History Museum, 51, 303–4

  Tangier Island Airport, 211–12, 213–14

  Tangier Island Family Tree, 303

  Tangier Light, 97, 304

  Tangier Oil Company, 156

  Tangier Sound, 65, 104

  Tangier Town Council, 118, 221, 286, 290, 295

  Tangier Volunteer Fire

  Department, 155

  telephone system, 190

  theocracy, 198

  This’ll Do, 184

  Thomas, Beth Parks, 154–55, 230, 231, 232, 280, 314–15, 336

  Thomas, Brett, 14, 15, 45, 135, 154–55, 322–23, 336

  Thomas, Eulice H., 230

  Thomas, George “Hambone,” 138, 372

  Thomas, Hanson, 301

  Thomas, John W., 230

  Thomas, Joshua, 55–57, 58, 61–63, 68–69, 70, 102, 122, 169, 196, 230

  Thomas, Rachel Evans, 55, 61

  Thomas, Rudy, Jr., 166, 230–31, 280

  Thomas, Rudy A., Sr., 230

  Thomas, Stella, 199–200

  Thorne, Donald, Jr. “Thornie,” 131–32

  Thorne, Grace, 46

  Thorne, Jack, 46, 170, 173, 176, 177, 281, 353

  Tommy James & the Shondells, 92

  Tom’s Gut, 220, 221

  tour buggies, 51–52

  tourists, 51–52, 154, 314

  Transmitter (osprey), 32

  trotlining, 188, 189, 190

  Trump, Donald, 234–35, 310, 311–12, 321–23, 367–68, 369–70, 373

  Tuck, William, 202

  tugboaters, 76

  Turlington’s Balsam of Life, 2

  Tyler, Renee, 264

  Tylerton, 39, 113–14, 118

  United Methodist Church, 239–40

  University of Maryland, 254, 298

  University of Wisconsin, 299

  Uppards

  author’s kayaking trip, 18

  the breach, 208, 212–13, 220–21, 377

  erosion, 208, 212–13, 217, 218, 220–21, 253–54, 256–59

  geography of, 67–68, 212

  Moore’s discovery of graveyard, 3–4, 5, 6

  Moore’s pilgrimage to, 1–4

  USA Today, 133–34

  Valerie Faith, 290

  Valliant, 259–60

  Vane Brothers, 76

  Vietnam War, 33, 90

  Virginia, border dispute, 129–31, 394n

  Virginia Airport Authority, 212

  Virginia Aquarium and Marine Science Center, 98

  Virginia Conference, 199, 200, 240–41, 243, 244

  Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS), 328–29

  Virginia Lottery, 15, 251

  Virginia Marine Resources Commission (VMRC), 85, 167, 263–64, 272, 296–97, 316–17, 330

  Virginian-Pilot, 15–16, 115, 162, 167, 211, 215

  Virginia tubs, 332

  viscoelastic, 64

  Wallace, Adam, 122

  Wallace Road, 48

  Walmart Supercenters, 229

  Walter, Jefferson F., 202

  Walter, Maggie, 138

  Ward, Keith, 280

  Warner, John, 214–15

  Warner Bros., 279–80

  War of 1812, 61–63

  Washington Dulles Airport, 152

  Washington Evening Star, 169

  Washington Post, 218, 280, 364

  Watermen’s Stewardship

  Covenant, 300

  water quality, 85, 116

  Water Resources Development Act of 1980, 214–15

  waterspouts, 161–62

  water temperature, 293–94, 334–35, 346

  water tower, 27, 292, 305–8

  Watson, Steve, 326, 330–34

  Watts Island, 10, 65, 121–22, 180, 362–63, 394n

  weather, 43–44, 159–68, 172–77

  West Ridge, 47–49, 212

  West Ridge Road, 47–49

  Whale Point, 251–52

  whales, 97

  whales (crabs), 133, 135, 140, 361

  Wheatley, Freddie, 347, 348–49

  Wheatley, Harold “Spike,” 277

  Wheatley, Henrietta, 45–46, 70–73, 136

  Wheatley, Kelly, 342, 346–47

  Wheatley, Matt, 326, 330–34

  Wheatley, Paul, 342, 347

  White, Paula, 323

  Willey, Paul, 119–21

  Williams, Homer, 137

  Windmill Point, 329, 334

  winds, 159–60, 179–80, 192

  Wine Rack, 196–97

  winter crab dredging, 91, 315–18

  Wise, Henry A., 68–69

  workboats, 84

  Working Dog, 229

  World War I, 9, 171–72

  World War II, 33, 46, 209–10

  Wright, Robin, 279

  Yankee Stadium, 105

  “yarnies,” 113–14

  Year 2000 (Y2K) problem, 16–17

  Yeocomico River, 188

  yoke of bondage, 196, 197

  York River, 12, 263–64

  About the Author

  Virginia-based journalist EARL SWIFT spent two years researching Chesapeake Requiem and has circumnavigated the Chesapeake Bay by sea kayak. He h
as written six previous books, among them Auto Biography and The Big Roads. A long-time reporter at the Virginian-Pilot, Swift has contributed major features to Outside and numerous other magazines. He has been a residential fellow of Virginia Humanities at the University of Virginia since 2012.

  earlswift.com

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  Also by Earl Swift

  Auto Biography:

  A Classic Car, an Outlaw Motorhead, and 57 Years of the American Dream

  The Big Roads:

  The Untold Story of the Engineers, Visionaries, and Trailblazers Who Created the American Superhighways

  Where They Lay:

  Searching for America’s Lost Soldiers

  Journey on the James:

  Three Weeks Through the Heart of Virginia

  The Tangierman’s Lament and Other Tales of Virginia

  One Buck at a Time:

  An Insider’s Account of How Dollar Tree Remade

  American Retail (with Macon Brock)

  Copyright

  Portions of this book previously appeared in Outside magazine.

  CHESAPEAKE REQUIEM. Copyright © 2018 by Earl Swift. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

  Cover design by Elsie Lyons

  Cover photographs: © Alan Gignoux / Alamy Stock Photo (manned boat); © Asya_mix / iStock / Getty Images, © HolyCrazyLazy / Shutterstock and © Ratana21 / Shutterstock (textures); © freedomnaruk / Shutterstock (sky); © Hong Vo / Shutterstock (crab); © Usanee / Shutterstock (water)

  Map illustration by Paul Pugliese

  Photograph here courtesy of the author

  FIRST EDITION

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  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Names: Swift, Earl, 1958- author.

  Title: Chesapeake requiem : a year with the watermen of vanishing Tangier Island / Earl Swift.

  Description: First edition. | New York, NY : Dey Street, [2018] | Includes bibliographical references and index.

  Identifiers: LCCN 2018024659| ISBN 9780062661395 (hardcover : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780062661401 (trade paperback : alk. paper)

  Subjects: LCSH: Crabbing—Virginia—Tangier Island—Pictorial works. | Blue crab—Virginia—Tangier Island—Pictorial works. | Tangier Island (Va.)

  Classification: LCC SH400.5.C7 S95 2018 | DDC 639/.560975516—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018024659

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  Digital Edition AUGUST 2018 ISBN: 978-0-06-266141-8

  Version 06282018

  Print ISBN: 978-0-06-266139-5

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  *Just for confusion’s sake, this pairing is also called a “doubler” throughout most of the Chesapeake region. On Tangier, however, the term most often refers to the female peeler.

 

 

 


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