{"id":5976,"date":"2010-09-19T05:45:22","date_gmt":"2010-09-19T10:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.howderfamily.com\/blog\/?p=5976"},"modified":"2022-08-11T06:45:07","modified_gmt":"2022-08-11T11:45:07","slug":"tangier-island-on-espn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.howderfamily.com\/blog\/tangier-island-on-espn\/","title":{"rendered":"Tangier Island on ESPN"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>ESPN has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/show\/thebiggestsportstowninamerica?pl=1FF446F8D22697C7\">airing promotional videos featuring Tangier Island<\/a>, a small marshy inhabited locale within Virginia&#8217;s portion of the Chesapeake Bay. The premise is that Tangier Island is the biggest (per capita) sports town in America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve been getting some pretty impressive website traffic from Google as a result.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/embed?pb=!1m10!1m8!1m3!1d50423.02971948685!2d-75.991745!3d37.826599!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!5e0!3m2!1sen!2sus!4v1535322877455\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">For First Time Visitors:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Welcome to the Twelve Mile Circle website. It&#8217;s devoted to an appreciation of unusual places which I like to call geo-oddities. Tangier Island is one of my favorite unusual places. Here are the pages on the website you&#8217;re probably looking for if Google is an indicator:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.howderfamily.com\/travel\/virginia_tangier_island.html\">Tangier Island Virginia<\/a>: Includes some photos, explanatory text and an embedded Google Map.<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.howderfamily.com\/travel\/virginia_tangier_island_ferry.html\">Tangier Island Ferry<\/a>: Tells you how to get to Tangier Island from Virginia&#8217;s western shore using the ferry; includes some more photos and text and an embedded route map.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>I hope you consider coming back again or subscribing to the feed if the subjects discussed on the site interest you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">For Regular Readers:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Consider this a bonus article. I&#8217;ll be posting my usual longer-form Sunday article later today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/show\/thebiggestsportstowninamerica?pl=1FF446F8D22697C7\">The ESPN videos<\/a> are worth a quick glance, and yes, that is the actual natural accent for the people of Tangier. It&#8217;s the result of centuries of near-isolation in the middle of the bay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESPN has been airing promotional videos featuring Tangier Island, a small marshy inhabited locale within Virginia&#8217;s portion of the Chesapeake Bay. The premise is that Tangier Island is the biggest (per capita) sports town in America. I&#8217;ve been getting some pretty impressive website traffic from Google as a result. 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