HE BAY NEVER ESSAYED TRUER, NOR FLOWERED MORE GLORIOUSLY, THAN IN ITS CREATION OF SMITH ISLAND . . . PLACES LIKE THE ISLAND ARE LIKE ART—MADE ALL THE MORE ARTFUL FOR CONTRIVING NOTHING, FOR SIMPLY BEING." —Tom Horton (An Island Out of Time). Severed from the mainland by a ten mile water crossing, Smith Island still moves to the age old rhythms of the tides and seasons. August 2010, Smith Island, Chesapeake Bay, Maryland.