Dozens of reporters have now told the story of the marshy island called Tangier. It’s 1.5 square miles in the middle of Chesapeake Bay – just five feet above sea level. English settlers arrived in 1778 to farm and later to fish, but 150 years ago Tangier began shrinking.
“The island is just disappearing very, very quickly.”
Over the last 150 years two-thirds of the island has disappeared…