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A review by thecaffeinatedreader
Chesapeake Requiem: A Year with the Watermen of Vanishing Tangier Island by Earl Swift
informative
reflective
slow-paced
3.75
full review here: https://thecaffeinatedreader.com/2025/03/13/chesapeake-requiem-same-page-community-reads-author-talk/
The premise of this book isn’t how to save the island or what will be done to help it, it’s what’s occurred, what will occur without aid and if it should be aided or not.
The premise of this book isn’t how to save the island or what will be done to help it, it’s what’s occurred, what will occur without aid and if it should be aided or not.
The best part of hearing Swift talk was how he integrated himself enough but still maintained that necessary distance and hearing him speak of how the island fares now. Bleak, but still information I wanted to know going into this talk after reading the book.
Swift poses this to us, if it can be, should Tangier be saved? They’re being called the first possible Climate Change Refugees (whether they see it that way or not) and we have to wonder, if Tangier is the first step for us (at least in the USA) then what’s next?