As the ferry approaches Tangier, Captain Steven Thomas tells a well-rehearsed history of the island, where crabbing has shaped the culture. He points out a handful of tiny buildings on stilts in the ...

As the ferry approaches Tangier, Captain Steven Thomas tells a well-rehearsed history of the island, where crabbing has shaped the culture. He points out a handful of tiny buildings on stilts in the ...

You'll see the crab shanties of Tangier Island as your ferry approaches the dock, lined up like sentries along the channel. But you can't get there from here. Set on pilings hundreds of yards from ...

TANGIER ISLAND — As often as she can, Carol Moore steers her skiff through the workboats and crab shanties of Tangier harbor and into the Chesapeake Bay itself as she makes her way to what she ...