Podcasts about vanishing tangier island

Earl Swift is Fellow of Virginia Humanities at the University of Virginia and New York Times' bestselling author of The Big Roads: The Untold Story of the Engineers, Visionaries, and Trailblazers Who Created the American Superhighways, Chesapeake Requiem: A Year with the Watermen of Vanishing Tangier Island, and the new book Across the Airless Wilds: The Lunar Rover and the Triumph of the Final Moon Landings. Website: www.earlswift.com

Episode NotesDuring the conversation with Liz Clark, a book was referenced but at that time the title could not be recalled. The book is Earl Swift's Chesapeake Requiem: A Year with the Watermen of Vanishing Tangier Island.Additional resources recommended by Liz include:Kale Williams: The Loneliest Polar BearIan Urbina's The Outlaw Ocean: Journeys Across the Last Untamed FrontierJeff Goodell's The Water Will ComeJill Heinerth's, Into the Planet: My Life as a Cave Diver.Paul Nicklen's photography for beautiful, devastating images of how our ocean world is changing.

Episode Notes:During the conversation with Liz Clark, a book was referenced but at that time the title could not be recalled. The book is Earl Swift's Chesapeake Requiem: A Year with the Watermen of Vanishing Tangier Island.Additional resources recommended by Liz include:Kale Williams: The Loneliest Polar BearIan Urbina's The Outlaw Ocean: Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier Jeff Goodell's The Water Will ComeJill Heinerth's, Into the Planet: My Life as a Cave Diver. Paul Nicklen's photography for beautiful, devastating images of how our ocean world is changing.

Chesapeake Requiem: A Year with the Watermen of Vanishing Tangier Island. He talks about the slow disappearance of this unique Virginia island to climate change.Support the show (https://www.southernenvironment.org)

Earl Swift is author of Chesapeake Requiem: A Year with the Watermen of Vanishing Tangier Island. In this episode Earl explains how the unique community in the Chesapeake Bay is struggling as the island disappears through a combination of erosion, subsidence, and rising seas from climate change. He talks about his time living on Tangier Island, the life of a watermen, and the iconic blue crab. Earl also discusses the reaction to his book and the difficult decisions around saving communities from climate change.

This is a conversation with best-selling author Earl Swift, whose latest book is titled "Chesapeake Requiem: A Year with the Water Men of Vanishing Tangier Island." This small island - located in the middle of some of the richest fishing waters in the world - is being rapidly engulfed by rising sea levels. Swift got to know some of the hearty souls who still live there.

Scientists believe Tangier Island, in the Virginia waters of the Chesapeake Bay, could vanish within the next 25 years. Two-thirds of Tangier's land mass has disappeared since the time of the Civil War, and in recent years sea-level rise caused by global warming took more acres from the island. Fewer than 500 people remain there. Many of them voted for Donald J. Trump, share his rejection of climate change as the reason for their existential challenge and insist that a seawall around the island would save it from further ----wave erosion.---- The deeply religious islanders have frequently been in the media spotlight, often the subject of derision and ridicule for their climate change denials and support of Trump. Journalist and author Earl Swift spent more than a year on Tangier, learning about the island way of life and the work of the watermen who've harvested blue crabs and oysters for generations. Swift has written an elegiac book about the place and the people who could well become the Chesapeake's first climate change refugees. The book is, ----Chesapeake Requiem: A Year with the Watermen of Vanishing Tangier Island,---- published by Harper Collins.In this episode: A talk with Swift following his appearance at the 2018 Baltimore Book Festival; excerpts of a CBS News report, a Stephen Colbert monologue and ----Full Frontal with Samantha Bee.----

First, ODU economist Robert McNab will help us make sense of the latest developments in US trade policy. Then we will talk to Earl Swift, author of Chesapeake Requiem: A Year with the Watermen of Vanishing Tangier Island. Finally, we'll check in with Mal Vincent to find out what's going on this week in Mal's World.

First, Will and Chris talk about a list put out by Food & Wine of the 40 most influential restaurants in the past 40 years. There is some crossover from the list we covered by Robb Report, but this contains about 10 more southern restaurants! Then, they talk about a book Will is reading by Earl Swift called Chesapeake Requiem: A Year with the Watermen of Vanishing Tangier Island. It is great non-fiction work, chronicling the work of Chesapeake Bay crabbers on a remote island, which has lost well over half its land mass since the late 1800s. Finally, they discuss the Wildsam filed guide on the American South.  Thanks to our sponsors for making this show happen each week:  Dallas & Jane - Chef Alex Belew’s new restaurant in Murfreesboro, TN.  Dallasandjane.net or open table. On Instagram at @dallasandjane Mountain Valley Spring Water - Delicious spring water straight from the source in the Ouachita Mountains in Arkansas. http://mountainvalleyspring.com and on Instagram @MountainValleyWater. Tree House Macarons - Augusta, GA. A French sandwich cookie! http://treehousemacarons.com and on Instagram @TreeHouseMacarons Use code POTLUCK to save 25%. Two Brooks Farm - Mississippi delta rice. No fungicides or insecticides, ever. Great people growing delicious rice. http://twobrooksfarm.com or @TwoBrooksRice on Instagram. Use the code POTLUCK and save 20% on any order. Southern Socks - Based in Lexington, KY, they make Southern-inspired socks. USA-made, super high quality. http://southernsocks.com and on Instagram @SouthernSocks Use code POTLUCK to save 15%.

Tangier Island, Virginia, has been home for eight generations to a unique community of now some 470 hardy souls, many of whom make their living harvesting the region’s prized blue crab. But their island home -- a barely 2-acre sliver of mud and sand and grass in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay -- is fast disappearing beneath the waters. Whether the culprit is erosion by the Bay’s relentless currents, as most Islanders believe, or the rising sea levels scientists say have been triggered by global climate change, the outlook for Tangier Island and its people is bleak. Today, Midday senior producer and guest host Rob Sivak spends the hour with Virginia-based writer Earl Swift, a long-time reporter at the Virginia-Pilot who has spent more than 30 years writing about the Chesapeake region, and who has circumnavigated the Bay in his kayak. The Chesapeake is the setting of Swift's newest book -- his seventh -- which chronicles the daily lives and hopes of the Tangier Islanders, against a backdrop of environmental and political forces that seem beyond their control. The book is called Chesapeake Requiem: A Year with the Watermen of Vanishing Tangier Island, published by Dey Street Books (an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers).

On this episode, we’re rebroadcasting an interview Matt Tullis did with Earl Swift in November 2014. At the time, Swift’s book “Auto Biography: A Classic Car, An Outlaw Motorhead, and 57 Years of the American Dream” had just been published. Swift has a new book out now. “Chesapeake Requiem: A Year With the Watermen of Vanishing Tangier Island” was published by Harper Collins, and is getting rave reviews. Auto Biography is also a fantastic book. It tells the life story of a 1957 Chevy that, at the beginning of the book, is falling apart. He also delves deep into the life of the current owner, Tommy Arney. Arney had a brutal childhood. He dropped out of school in the fifth-grade, and lived a life of crime. But had also become a somewhat successful and controversial businessman. The story of this car started as a five-part series for the Virginian-Pilot, where Swift had been a reporter for many years. In this interview, he talked about the differences between reporting for newspaper work and reporting for a book project. Swift is a former Fulbright fellow in New Zealand, and is currently a residential fellow of the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.