Breaking the Age Barrier
What do you hope to be doing when you are 70 years old?
Write about a day in your life when you are over 70 years old.
- Golda Meir served as Prime Minister of Israel from age 70 to 75.
- Actor and comic George Burns won his first Oscar at 80.
- Frank Lloyd Wright designed the Guggenheim Museum in New York at 91.
- Dr. Seuss wrote The Cat in the Hat at age 82.
- Michelangelo was 66 when he finished the Sistine Chapel.
- Grandma Moses didn’t start painting until she was 80. She completed over 1,500 paintings after that, 25 percent of them when she was past 100.
- At age 96, George Bernard Shaw broke his leg when he fell out of a tree he was trimming in his back yard.
What do you hope to be doing when you are 70 years old?
Write about a day in your life when you are over 70 years old.