15th Annual Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest People
96 year old Lina Sharp in her home in central Nevada

96 year old retired Lina Sharp has lived at a ranch at the foot of Blue Eagle Mountain in remove Railroad Valley in central Nevada since the 1940s. A native of Los Angeles, her family moved to Las Vegas when she was a child. She graduated Nevada Normal College and then moved to the valley where she taught school for decades, married a rancher and raised five daughters who come back to the ranch regularly.

Photo Detail
Date Taken: 08.2016
Date Uploaded: 11.2017
Photo Location: Railroad Valley, Nevada, United States of America
Camera: DMC-GX7
Copyright: © Larry Angier