AUSTIN â Richard Overton is right where he wants to be.
Heâs sitting in a lawn chair on the front porch of the Austin home he built nearly 70 years ago, working on his fifth Tampa Sweet cigar on a 91-degree sunny day. The smooth tunes of the Isley Brothers flow from a portable speaker. Birds are chirping in the late afternoon breeze.
âIâm feeling pretty good today,â Overton says, emphasizing the word pretty, because any day spent on this porch smoking cigars is a pretty good day for the 111-year-old.
This is where youâll find the nationâs oldest veteran for 10 hours every day when the weather is nice. His friends call it his âstage.â Itâs where Overton sits and thinks about life, his starting in 1906, the same year as the first wireless radio broadcast and a year before the paper towel was invented.
Doomdoomkittydoom on June 3rd, 2017 at 17:30 UTC »
Researchers need to secure some of that DNA.
thisideups on June 3rd, 2017 at 17:23 UTC »
This must be the guy Bungie used as inspiration for SGM Johnson.
rightenough on June 3rd, 2017 at 14:08 UTC »
He's 111. What's the point in quitting smoking now?