The ‘Lobster Lady’ at 105
There’s late-onset-fame — Morgan Freeman, famously, did not get famous until 50, and then there’s the “Lobster Lady,” Rockland’s Virginia Oliver, whose breakout moment came when she was twice that age. Around her 100th birthday, an age actuaries say more than 99% of us will never reach, Oliver went viral, in the parlance of this century, for being the world’s oldest lobsterman, and a rare lobsterwoman at that. Fame is something Oliver never sought, however. And she still doesn’t really get what all the fuss is about — she’s been hauling traps in the waters around Rockland since she was a young girl during the Depression and has just kept on doing it. “I like to be out there,” she said Friday, June 6, her 105th birthday. “You gotta keep busy.” Photos, more, >>CLICK TO READ<< 11:46
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