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Washington Post: On Holland Island, Md.
The story was strange enough to be a child's fable: In an isolated section of the Chesapeake Bay, there was a two-story Victorian house that seemed to emerge directly from the water.
And, scurrying around it, there was a retiree, trying to keep the house from falling in.
Finally, the man gave up. And last week, the house did, too. Raked by a storm, it cracked at the spine and collapsed into a one-story wreck.
The tale of the house and the man illustrates the Chesapeake's......
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Last house on sinking Chesapeake Bay island collapses
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on October 25th, 2010
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