Tangiers

Tangiers is a low lying island of crab fisherman and their families 14 miles from Crisfield, MD. Considering that Crisfield is already the end of the road imagine Tangiers. It is cute with multiple small fenced in homes piled on top of each other and distributed in what seems to be about a city block. If it were New York City, there would be a million people here but since it is Tangiers there are 450.

There are a couple of churches competing for souls. An impressive number of war veteran memorials, the islanders have certainly done their share defending the U.S.A. The crabbers have shanty like huts build on stilts where they moor their boats and molt the crabs.

The islanders graves are distributed on various front lawns in a raised style similar to New Orleans. Their language (as we were informed by a well done video at the museum) is not British per se as much as from Cornwall. It is definitely different. It is not southern.

The island also has quite a bit of Christian signage. Many crosses dot the landscape. I think a strong faith is needed to spend generations here in as unprotected an anchorage as I have seen. God bless them . . .