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 ...

I interviewed the mayor of Tangier Island at least a half-dozen times over the 21/2 years I covered the coastal environment beat for The Virginian-Pilot. But until recently, I never felt comfortable ...

TANGIER ISLAND, Va. — 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 ...

Veteran journalist Earl Swift spent months living on Tangier to gather material for his new book, "Chesapeake Requiem: A Year with the Watermen of Vanishing Tangier Island," published this month.

Despite what this sign says, author Earl Swift writes in his recently published book "Chesapeake Requiem" that the first confirmed white settlers didn't arrive on Tangier Island until 1778.

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 ...

Tangier Island in Virginia — one of the last inhabited islands in the Chesapeake Bay — is under threat from rising sea levels ...