Posted on 09/16/2021 7:12:22 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
When Virginia Oliver started trapping lobster off Maine’s rocky coast, World War II was more than a decade in the future, the electronic traffic signal was a recent invention and few women were harvesting lobsters.
Nearly a century later, at age 101, she’s still doing it. The oldest lobster fisher in the state and possibly the oldest one in the world, Oliver still faithfully tends to her traps off Rockland, Maine, with her 78-year-old son Max.
She’s still loading pogeys — lobster-speak for menhaden, a small fish — into traps to lure the crustaceans in. And she’s still getting up long before dawn to get on the boat and do it.
“I like doing it, I like being along the water,” she said. “And so I’m going to keep on doing it just as long as I can. ”
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And I used to think catching the 6 AM train was early?
Good for her. No reason to stop.
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Love it...just love it!
Amazing….good for her.
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What a blessing to be able to work until 101 - and to do so with your own children!
Throw some more pogeys in the trap!
The Old Woman and the Sea! Tough old bird.
Sturdy New England stock. Impressive.
Work ethic on steroids! Retirement is BS in my opinion. Of course, only if you love what you do. Work is what’s keeping her going. Forced retirement kills.
Really like.
I love this story! Good for her. You retire... you die. Simple as that.
Bet she didn’t get the clot shot
Yep, what a nice story. And to think her son is 78, he’s a senior citizen himself. Wow.
“Oliver still faithfully tends to her traps off Rockland, Maine, with her 78-year-old son Max.”
78 y/o son.....you don’t hear that every day. Lol!
Dear Hollywood,
You are always soiling your Huggies desperately trying to put, “Strong, independent women,” in your movies?
Make a factual, accurate movie about this lady.
Go ahead.
I dare ya.
I know nothing about lobstering - is it a daily job? Seasonal? Are you putting down and pulling up pots in the middle of January as well as middle of August?
> 78 y/o son.....you don’t hear that every day. Lol! <
Awhile back I read a true story about a police incident. A 75 year-old man was standing all by himself on a street corner. He was standing there for at least an hour. A concerned citizen thought the man might be lost, and called the police.
Cop: “Can I help you, sir?”
Old man: “No. I’m just waiting for my mother to pick me up.”
Cop (to himself): The poor old fellow must have dementia.
Just then the man’s 92 year-old mother pulled up.
Great story! God bless her!-101 and still going strong.
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