By Dave Taft August 2, 2013 2:00 pm August 2, 2013 2:00 pm A fortunate Eastern box turtle (Terrapene carolina carolina) can lead a very long life, very slowly. Records of individual turtles living well past 100 are not uncommon. One such creature was caught and marked on Martha’s Vineyard in 1861, and recaptured several times through 2006. It was a hatchling before the Civil War. Famously slow and