TANGIER When members of the Secret Seven go out to lunch, they really go out. Well, not always. But they sure did yesterday. The weekly lunch bunch of old friends and community leaders from around Richmond typically dines at restaurants close to home, but they decided to do something a little out of the ordinary. OK, a lot out of the ordinary.

On late-autumn days, this tiny Chesapeake Bay island normally buzzes with workboat engines and the shouts of Tangier watermen in their Elizabethan dialect. No more. The docks and crab shanties on stilts lining the harbor are empty.
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