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Tangier Island

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  • August 4, 2017 - Tangier Island, VA - A community of crabbing shacks are the office of the Tangier Island watermen.<br />
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Photo by Susana Raab/Institute
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  • August 4, 2017 - Tangier Island, VA - Crab traps are lined up on the dock of the waterman's crab shock off the coast of Tangier Island.<br />
Photo by Susana Raab/Institute
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  • August 4, 2017 - Tangier Island, VA - Crab traps are lined up on the dock of the waterman's crab shock off the coast of Tangier Island.<br />
Photo by Susana Raab/Institute
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  • August 4, 2017 - Tangier Island, VA - Tangier Island neighbors greet each other from a crab shanty set off the island. Set on pilings hundreds of yards from shore, the little shacks, where watermen monitor crabs as they shed their hard shells to become soft-shells, are like Tangier itself: islands apart. Perched 12 miles from the Eastern Shore of Virginia, Tangier (about three miles long and 1 1/2 miles wide) is accessible only by boat or by plane; most visitors take the ferry. Boats outnumber cars, and almost everyone makes a living from the water.Photo by Susana Raab/Institute
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  • August 4, 2017 - Tangier Island, VA - Tangier Island Mayor James "Ooker" Eskridge gives a tour of the area around Tangier Island from his skiff.  <br />
Photo by Susana Raab/Institute
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  • August 4, 2017 - Tangier Island, VA - Tangier Island Mayor James "Ooker" Eskridge gives a tour of the area around Tangier Island from his skiff.  Photo by Susana Raab/Institute
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  • August 4, 2017 - Tangier Island, VA - Tangier Island Mayor James "Ooker: Eskridge's crab shanty proudly flies the American flag and the Israeli flag, a nod to the support, conservative Christian's on the island give to the Israeli state.  Photo by Susana Raab/Institute
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  • August 4, 2017 - Tangier Island, VA - Tangier Island Mayor James "Ooker" Eskridge shows off crabs waiting to molt in his crab shack off Tangier Island.  The female crab is identified by her "U.S. Capitol dome" shape on her underbelly, and the male by his "Washington monument" shape.  Like all things on Tangier Island a sense of istory and patriotism runs strong.Photo by Susana Raab/Institute
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  • August 4, 2017 - Tangier Island, VA - Tangier Island Mayor James "Ooker" Eskridge shows off crabs waiting to molt in his crab shack off Tangier Island.  The female crab is identified by her "U.S. Capitol dome" shape on her underbelly, and the male by his "Washington monument" shape.  Like all things on Tangier Island a sense of istory and patriotism runs strong.<br />
Photo by Susana Raab/Institute
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  • August 4, 2017 - Tangier Island, VA - The view from the insdie of Tangier Mayor's James "Ooker" Eskridge's crab shanty offers a view of the incoming watermen's boats coming in with their crab pots. Set on pilings hundreds of yards from shore, the little shacks, where watermen monitor crabs as they shed their hard shells to become soft-shells, are like Tangier itself: islands apart. Perched 12 miles from the Eastern Shore of Virginia, Tangier (about three miles long and 1 1/2 miles wide) is accessible only by boat or by plane; most visitors take the ferry. Boats outnumber cars, and almost everyone makes a living from the water.<br />
Photo by Susana Raab/Institute
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  • August 4, 2017 - Tangier Island, VA - Tangier Island Mayor James "Ooker" Eskridge gives a tour of the area around Tangier Island from his skiff.  The mayor makes his living as a waterman crabbing and raising crabs till they molt.  <br />
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Photo by Susana Raab/Institute
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  • August 4, 2017 - Tangier Island, VA - Tangier Island Mayor James "Ooker" Eskridge gives a tour of the area around Tangier Island from his skiff.  The mayor makes his living as a waterman crabbing and raising crabs till they molt.  <br />
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Photo by Susana Raab/Institute
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  • August 4, 2017 - Tangier Island, VA - Tangier Island Mayor James "Ooker" Eskridge gives a tour of the area around Tangier Island from his skiff.  The mayor makes his living as a waterman crabbing and raising crabs till they molt.  <br />
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Photo by Susana Raab/Institute
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  • August 4, 2017 - Tangier Island, VA - Tangier Island Mayor James "Ooker" Eskridge gives a tour of the area around Tangier Island from his skiff.  The mayor makes his living as a waterman crabbing and raising crabs till they molt.  <br />
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Photo by Susana Raab/Institute
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  • August 4, 2017 - Tangier Island, VA - Tangier Island Mayor James "Ooker" Eskridge gives a tour of the area around Tangier Island from his skiff.  The mayor makes his living as a waterman crabbing and raising crabs till they molt.  <br />
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Photo by Susana Raab/Institute
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  • August 4, 2017 - Tangier Island, VA - Tangier Island Mayor James "Ooker" Eskridge gives a tour of the area around Tangier Island from his skiff.  The mayor makes his living as a waterman crabbing and raising crabs till they molt.  <br />
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Photo by Susana Raab/Institute
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  • August 4, 2017 - Tangier Island, VA - Tangier Island Mayor James "Ooker" Eskridge's crab shack hosts four cats whom he rescued off a floating tree branch as kittens.  He named all but one after prominent Republican government officials.. Pictured here are (Former Secretary of State) Condoleeza Rice and (U.S. Supreme Court Justice) Sam Alito. Not pictured are (U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice) John Roberts and (conservative political commentator) Ann Coulter. <br />
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Photo by Susana Raab/Institute
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  • August 4, 2017 - Tangier Island, VA - <br />
Inside the "Situation Room,"  (named after a small briefing room in the White House) is a small room inside the former Tangier Island health clinic, where watermen gather at the end of the day to "solve all the world's problems," according to Tangier Island Mayor James "Ooker" Eskridge (center).  Richard Pruitt, left, and Danny McCready, right, flank the mayor on either side.  Photo by Susana Raab/Institute
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  • August 4, 2017 - Tangier Island, VA - <br />
Inside the "Situation Room,"  (named after a small briefing room in the White House) is a small room inside the former Tangier Island health clinic, where watermen gather at the end of the day to "solve all the world's problems," according to Tangier Island Mayor James "Ooker" Eskridge (not pictured). From left to right, Leon McMann (the mayor's father-in-law) and George Cannon are part of the daily gathering in this close-knit island community  Photo by Susana Raab/Institute
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  • August 4, 2017 - Tangier Island, VA - <br />
Inside the "Situation Room,"  (named after a small briefing room in the White House) is a small room inside the former Tangier Island health clinic, where watermen gather at the end of the day to "solve all the world's problems," according to Tangier Island Mayor James "Ooker" Eskridge (center).  Next to a picture of some orphans are scribbled the words "Trump Who," which references a conversation one of the island's few democrats said about GOP Presidential candidate Donald J. Trump, "After the election, everyone will ask Trump who?" the person asserted, believing that Trump would lose the election.<br />
  Photo by Susana Raab/Institute
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  • August 4, 2017 - Tangier Island, VA - <br />
Mayor James "Ooker" Eskridge tours "The Uppards," a previously habited portion of Tangier Island that is today very diminished in size due to erosion.  A few of the old homes from this area of the island have been moved to the more inhabited part of the island, across a widening waterway once accessible by bridge. That bridge no longer exists. .  Photo by Susana Raab/Institute
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  • August 4, 2017 - Tangier Island, VA - <br />
Mayor James "Ooker" Eskridge tours "The Uppards," a previously habited portion of Tangier Island that is today very diminished in size due to erosion.  A few of the old homes from this area of the island have been moved to the more inhabited part of the island, across a widening waterway once accessible by bridge. That bridge no longer exists. .  Photo by Susana Raab/Institute
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  • August 4, 2017 - Tangier Island, VA - Old gravestones frequently are unearthed on the part of Tangier Island known as "The Uppards." The Uppards was a previously habited portion of Tangier Island that is today very diminished in size due to erosion.  A few of the old homes from this area of the island have been moved to the more inhabited part of the island, across a widening waterway once accessible by bridge. That bridge no longer exists<br />
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Photo by Susana Raab/Institute
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  • August 4, 2017 - Tangier Island, VA - Old gravestones frequently are unearthed on the part of Tangier Island known as "The Uppards." The Uppards was a previously habited portion of Tangier Island that is today very diminished in size due to erosion.  A few of the old homes from this area of the island have been moved to the more inhabited part of the island, across a widening waterway once accessible by bridge. That bridge no longer exists<br />
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Photo by Susana Raab/Institute
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  • August 4, 2017 - Tangier Island, VA - Old gravestones frequently are unearthed on the part of Tangier Island known as "The Uppards." Here, Mayor James "Ooker" Eskridge wipes off sand from one of his wife's ancestors (Pruitts) gravestones on the island.  The Uppards was a previously habited portion of Tangier Island that is today very diminished in size due to erosion.  A few of the old homes from this area of the island have been moved to the more inhabited part of the island, across a widening waterway once accessible by bridge. That bridge no longer exists<br />
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Photo by Susana Raab/Institute
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