Fighting the Rising TideThe Genealogue
Friday, December 15th, 2006Donald Willey is living in a FEMA trailer on Hooper’s Island, Maryland, his house having been destroyed by Hurricane Isabel. But his highest priority is saving an island cemetery from slipping into Chesapeake Bay.”This is our local history, and I just can’t see it wash away. It’s got to be saved,” Willey said. “If it gets out there in the bay, then the body’s gone and everything is lost.”
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