inspires them, involves their community, so they get a feel for what civics is about. not just you know, yes, they should learn about the constitution, but it has to be more than about just rogue learning. anybody else? >> thank you everybody for coming. >> thank you very much andrea gabor. >> thank you. >> i'll be happy to sign books, i know some people who brought some, if you didn't i have some. >> i have my book. >> great. >> week book tv, you can listen on the go. download c-span radio app.

tokin hear everything live, up next. visit to book fair in washington, d.c. author earl swift spoke with us about struggles a 200-year-old grabbing community in middle of chesapeake bay. >> university of virginia, author of 5 other books, most resent, "chesapeake requiem." a year with waterman. mr. swift where is that. >> tan jere is in middle of widest part of chesapeake bay, about 30 miles across, an hour and change by boat. tiny spec of mud and march out in middle of 18 trillion gallons of water. >> 450 people live there. >> give or take. >> why did you get interested? >> i went there initially a as a

newspaper reporter and struck by how odd and interesting it was. it is unlike any other town in america. so isolated it has its own style of speech it developed over last 240 years, every islander can trace their lyn lineage to first settlers in 1770s, it is a factory town, devoted to catching crops an crabs and oys. >> a lot of people may know tangier it was separated from mainland, they have a unique style of talk, you got interested because of the climate. tangier lost two-thirds of itself land since 1850. >> right. and that initially that not what took me to island, but once there and back several times i

found each time i revisited i visited a smaller island. when i went to write the book in 2016, changes by that time were profound. close to 20 years, since from first to last visit. the effects of sea level rise but island subsides into the bay were unmistakable. >> for viewers, what is infrastructure like on the island? roads in power? >> roads size of sidewalks. about a mile 1/2 all together. about 275 houses. most of them small. wood frame, two-story. about a century old. it is treeless, 80%, a island 1

mile wide by 3 long, 80% is salt marsh, and it floods. and makes getting around difficult. it has a school, only k-12 school left in virginia, two churches with a very dedicated congregation. one of the most storied methodist in the country. is known through out the midatlantic as a place where particularly scholarly. it is a -- it is a place partly because flat and inches above the water, without any --

interruption to horizon, it a place sky as much as water. that surprised me when i moved there just how much the sky figures into your environment when you walk around. >> here at national press club in washingto washington d.c., m. devotees of blue crab. how does the climate change in rising of sea, how does that affect the crab men or change their how they make a living? >> well right now, it is not. but that is you know, that is just now, it will. the crab depend on lee waters and protection from wind-driven we action that protects the bay grasses in which they breed and such. without a tangier they would be

missing a huge piece of underwater pastor land that is vital to the ble blue crab. but the crabbers now, their main issue is they their home is slipping beneath the water. it is an existential threat they are facing, it tough to get out in your crabbing boat if you don't have a house to go to the pottboat from. they are a lot more worried more about not what happens so much at fishery but what they come home to. >> what is scientific forecast in regards t to liveability of island 10, 20 years. >> army scholars of engineers released a paper say na saying t

island would have 50 to a hundred before it is uninhab tal, they have since modified it. climate change is -- the sea level rise is accelerating at a higher rate. the current forecast seems to be 25 years. tops pretty much before the challenges of living on the island supersede you know the practicality of living there. >> how do the residents receive that, what do they think? are they ready to go? do they refuse to believe it will happen. >> this a keepl deeply religious place, they can control very little about their environment, that environment plays strong role in their life. so, perhaps not surprisingly they have to a large measure put

it in god's hands i say, this is old school christian. they are not like mainland methodists, they have come to see themselves as they have been spared from hurricane after hurricane up the bay, and spared by killer epidemics that could have taken them -- should have taken them out but did not, and crab harvest that collapsed but then came back, this is another traigreat challenge they hope te divinely headed off. >> earl swift, the book, "chesapeake requiem." thank you so much. >> thank you. >> keep an a for more interviews from national press club book fair to air in near future, you can watch them and our programs, at book tv dottin.

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