9-7-11: Sunset for a Chesapeake Island Town

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Tylerton at sunset.
Tylerton at sunset.

It would be easy to idealize life in the Chesapeake Bay island fishing town of Tylerton, which has a population of 50 people and is located 40 minutes by boat from Maryland's lower eastern shore. But the proposed closing of the Tylerton Post Office is an example of how the community is being threatened by population loss, rising seas, and winds of change.



 

Contact Tom Pelton at pelton.tom@gmail.com