County resident celebrates 100 years with family close

Anne Arundel County has changed during the century Alice Gertrude "Gertie" Guy has called it home.

"It's overgrown," she said. "There's lots of people around, but you don't see them very often."

A lifelong county resident and an Annapolitan for decades, Mrs. Guy remembers life on a farm, planting tobacco and picking tomatoes.

She remembers taking a horse and buggy to Galesville Elementary School - and walking the five miles home when the horse left without them.

"(Growing up) goes by too fast," she said.

Mrs. Guy was born just outside of Galesville on Jan....