By Victor Block

Talk about hometown pride! I heard that people on Smith Island in Chesapeake Bay love their isolated lifestyle, and that residents of each of the three tiny towns there tout its superiority over the others.

Even so, the reply of a grizzled Maryland waterman whom I invited to accompany me on the five-minute boat ride to another village came as a surprise. "Nope," he said, "I've already been there."

Along with being chauvinistic about the ...

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