Rising Waters and Political Wrangling

摘要

Growing up on Virginia's Middle Peninsula, Lewis Lawrence remembers an island in the middle of the Ware River with tree trunks the size of five-gallon buckets. That island has long since vanished beneath the sea. The patch of six counties jutting into the Chesapeake Bay and bordered by rivers north and south is unmarred by the skyscrapers and ubiquitous tattoo parlors of Virginia Beach, 60 miles south. But the Middle Peninsula is changing.