![]() ![]() 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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