Treasured Island | Al Jazeera America: As in many places, conversations on this remote island in the Chesapeake Bay tend to steer toward the weather.But here it's not just small talk. A long winter has chilled the water so it's still too cold to catch crabs even on the last day of March — exactly two weeks after crabbing season started. Most of the island's watermen — who oyster in winter and catch blue crabs in summer — haven't earned a penny in over a month.
When they do talk about the weather on Tangier, it doesn't sound like most places either. "Crabs," for instance, is drawn out to allow an extra syllable or two: "cr-aeae-uh-bs."
