An Island Out of Time: A Memoir of Smith Island in the Chesapeake

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A small island, home to five hundred watermen and their families, is the subject of a study about a community that has remained true to its past whilst witnessing the decline of the wildlife surrounding it. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.
Even if the archipelago referred to as Smith Island sits in Chesapeake Bay, just off Maryland’s eastern shore, it is in some ways a place lost in time and space. Lacking a police force, a high school, or a hospital, it still carries the flavor of any other era. People earn a tough living from crabbing, which means that 18-hour work days for six months of the year, they usually still speak a heavily accented language that some scholars imagine dates back to Elizabethan times. In 1987, Tom Horton, an environmental creator for the Baltimore Sun, moved with his circle of relatives to this 300-year-old community. This thoughtful, well-written book is his record of the two years they spent there.

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