Tangier Island, located a few miles off the coast of Virginia in America, was a tiny and isolated fishing community when I visited it some years ago. Stepping off the ferry was like turning your watch back a full century. No tourist cars were allowed on the island. All the island’s children attended a one-room school. Access to the mainland – and the Twentieth Century – was only by a ferry which acted as a filter, keeping out the undesired elements of modern society. Tangier Island was not an artists colony, nor was it home to a religious cult. It was, quite simply, an American Brigadoon, a place that time had forgotten – and the residents preferred it that way.
1 Tangier Island, Point Zero
1 Tangier Island, Point Zero
1 Tangier Island, Point Zero
Tangier Island, located a few miles off the coast of Virginia in America, was a tiny and isolated fishing community when I visited it some years ago. Stepping off the ferry was like turning your watch back a full century. No tourist cars were allowed on the island. All the island’s children attended a one-room school. Access to the mainland – and the Twentieth Century – was only by a ferry which acted as a filter, keeping out the undesired elements of modern society. Tangier Island was not an artists colony, nor was it home to a religious cult. It was, quite simply, an American Brigadoon, a place that time had forgotten – and the residents preferred it that way.