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Classic Aircraft Pilot, Loyalton, California, 1997

"Classic aircraft pilot Hal Wright, age 93, delivers copies of his newspaper, Sierra Booster, to rural subscribers around Loyalton, California. Reporter, writer, editor, and ad salesman, Wright is lively proof that birthdays are no reliable measure of the complicated, individual process of aging. Asked when he's going to slow down, he replies, 'What for? I wouldn't know what to do with my time.'"

—From "Aging—New Answers to Old Questions," November 1997, National Geographic magazine

Photograph by Karen Kasmauski