He does have a few ideas percolating - at least two that are fairly far along in terms of conception, he said.Īnd if the opportunity for collaboration comes along so he can help finance another project like “Chesapeake Requiem,” he’s open to hearing it out. Purchase pictures by Daily Press photographers. Photos of Tangier Island from the Daily Press archives. Swift said it has been 12 years since he hasn’t been writing or reporting a book, so he’s spending time this year focused on magazine writing, including pieces for Outside about Tangier. “This is early on … pieces are still falling into place,” he said. Swift made a stop in Norfolk on his book tour, but hasn’t ruled out a return to Hampton Roads. Previous journalism stops included Anchorage, Alaska, and St. “It was the best job in newspapering,” he said of writing longform general assignment pieces. While there, he held several positions, including working on the narrative team that formed in 1998. He said he was already writing books, and continued doing that. Swift spent about 22 years with the Pilot before taking a buyout in 2009. It’s equidistant, Swift said, from the Appalachian Trail, on which he hikes several times a week.
Home now is Crozet - with an office in Charlottesville as a residential fellow of the University of Virginia’s Foundation for the Humanities.
“One of those scenes was the very last scene of the book,” he said of his return trip. Swift said residents are reliant on the landline - “news travels very fast by landline.”Īs Swift was in the draft process, he said he realized he had to go back to the island. There is no cellular service on the island, but there is internet. “It seeps into your pores, not just the island … just the warmth and togetherness of the people. “I didn’t understand just how isolated and self-reliant it is forced to be,” Swift said. In his reporting, Swift said he found the day-to-day of the island is run by the women while the men are at work on the water. It was after he realized a lot also happens when tourists go home, which extended his time into the spring of 2017, then the summer. He figured it would be for the minimum of peeler crab season, May to late October, then expected to return to followup.
When he started the process, he said it wasn’t clear he’d spend the whole year.
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