Gladys, Va. — Elizabeth Scott, 92, poses for a portrait in her farm home in Gladys, Va. on Dec. 15, 2019. Originally a tobacco farmer, Mrs. Scott and her husband built their home in 1952. Spanning over 26 acres, the land has been in their family for over a hundred years. While eating a lunch of potato soup, Mrs. Scott remembers when her country roads would turn into mud; “have you ever fell into a ditch on the side of a road?” she jokes in her thick southern accent. With all of her children living throughout Virginia and her husband passing away in 2004, Mrs. Scott fills her time with a quilting group and members from her southern baptist church. “I don’t like to brag,” she says, while mixing her sweet potato pudding. “But I attribute all of my successes to God.”
