At 101, Virginia's still hauling lobsters and doesn’t intend to stop

At 101, she is steady as ever, working as a sternman, measuring and banding lobsters on her son Max Oliver's boat. Photo: AP

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.