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Tangier Island

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  • August 4, 2017 - Tangier Island, VA - A view of Tangier Island from the approach of the ferry from Crisfileld, Maryland. Photo by Susana Raab/Institute
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  • August 4, 2017 - Tangier Island, VA - Ferry passengers aboard the Stephen Thomas enroute to Tangier Island, Va.Photo by Susana Raab/Institute
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  • August 4, 2017 - Captain  Stephen Thomas looks at his GPS radar focused on teh Chesapeake Bay en route to Tangier Island. Photo by Susana Raab/Institute
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  • August 4, 2017 - Tangier Island, VA - Tourists on the boat the Stephen Thomas survey the approach to Tangier Island, Va. Photo by Susana Raab/Institute
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  • August 4, 2017 - Ferry passengers aboard the Stephen Thomas en route to Tangier Island. Photo by Susana Raab/Institute
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  • August 4, 2017 - Tangier Island, VA -  Visitors on the "waterman's tour"  visit the crab shanty of Tangier Island Mayor James "Ooker" Eskridge's crab shack. 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 community and history are always present in the ubiquity of the cemeteries that are found throughout the small island.<br />
Photo by Susana Raab/Institute
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  • August 4, 2017 - Tangier Island, VA - A deep sense of community informs the citizens of Tangier Island who often stop in the roadway to chat in afternoons after the days work on the water is done.  Few cars are on the small island, but almost every house has a golf cart parked in front of it for easy transportation.<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 - 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 - Inside Mayor James "Ooker" Eskridge's crab shack where pictures of his family share space with Confederate General Robert E. Lee, U.S. President Donald J. Trump, and a sticker that professes "Earth is not my mother but He who created it is my Father." Photo by Susana Raab/Institute
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  • August 4, 2017 - Tangier Island, VA - Tangier Island Mayor James "Ooker" Eskridge shows a young friend how to detect when the crabs are molting their shells to become soft shell crabs, which are shipped daily to restaurants up and down the Eastern seaboard.  The crab porcessing area is behind his crab shanty. 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 - <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).  From left to right, George Cannon, Richard Pruitt, Mayor Eskridge, and Danny McCready, right, discuss the day's latest.  Photo by Susana Raab/Institute
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  • August 4, 2017 - Tangier Island, VA - Patriotism is evident on Tangier Island. <br />
Photo by Susana Raab/Institute
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  • August 4, 2017 - Tangier Island, VA - Fading old homes, white picket fences, raised foundations and graveyards are everywhere on Tangier Island.<br />
Photo by Susana Raab/Institute
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  • August 4, 2017 - Tangier Island, VA - Riley Mariano and Layla Park, teenage girls of Tangier Island, loiter on a bridge that crosses the Big Gut Canal.<br />
Photo by Susana Raab/Institute
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  • August 4, 2017 - Tangier Island, VA - Day tripper visitors to Tangier Island take island tours on multi-seater golf carts around the island. <br />
Photo by Susana Raab/Institute
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  • August 4, 2017 - Tangier Island, VA - Chesapeake House server and cook Fran Ellis and Barbara McReady (left to right) pose in front of portraits of previous proprietors of the Tangier Island restaurant.<br />
 Photo by Susana Raab/Institute
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  • August 4, 2017 - Tangier Island, VA - Pockets of marshland are seen in almost every view of Tangier Island. <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 - 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 - Front yard cemeteries are a common site on Tangier Island where connection to community and ancestry are very much on display.<br />
Photo by Susana Raab/Institute
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  • August 4, 2017 - Tangier Island, VA - A homeowners flooded possessions are left out to dry on Tangier Island.<br />
Photo by Susana Raab/Institute
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  • August 4, 2017 - Tangier Island, VA - The new health center (far right) and an old home on Tangier Island.<br />
Photo by Susana Raab/Institute
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  • August 4, 2017 - Tangier Island, VA - A jet skier cruises through the waterways of Tangier Island, where crosses show the populations dedication to their Christian religion.<br />
Photo by Susana Raab/Institute
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