Young said Plains, Georgia, and the county it was in ... he became the friend of the majority," Young said. James Carter, Jimmy Carter's grandson, recites the Beatitudes at former president's ...

Plains, Georgia doesn’t have a big grocery store ... Because Plains is a rural town where almost everyone knew a U.S. president, Jimmy Carter. They also knew a first lady, Rosalynn Carter, ...

PLAINS, Ga. − From Dollar General to the local high school, Americans had words of admiration in Jimmy ... about Carter. Inside, Sandra Hicks − who lives down the road in Americus, Georgia ...

Jimmy Carter returned to Georgia for the last time Thursday after ... The country’s 39th president will be buried in his beloved hometown of Plains, next to Rosalynn Carter, his wife of 77 ...

He became the governor of Georgia in 1971 and ... and Pam Howell decided to stop in Plains on their way from New Orleans to Tallahassee, Fla. "I met Jimmy Carter at one point and actually played ...

The life of the 39th president Jimmy Carter, a steel-willed Southern governor who was elected president in 1976, died at his home in Plains, Georgia, on Dec. 29, according to his son James E.

ATLANTA — Funeral services for former President Jimmy Carter have ... Carter's hometown of Plains to his childhood home and family farm before heading to Atlanta. Georgia Gov.

Georgia has also grown considerably, driven in large part by the Atlanta region. LeAnne Smith, Jimmy Carter's niece, remembers uncle LeAnne Smith, a Plains local and Jimmy Carter’s niece ...

ATLANTA — The first day of funeral services for former President Jimmy Carter ... flight back to Georgia. There, a private funeral at Carter's Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains will be followed ...

Jimmy Carter was known to wake up at 4 a.m. and go to the fields at his family farm to round up peanuts, then take them inside to boil before trekking to nearby downtown Plains to sell them.

In September, 2011, I drove to Plains, Georgia, with Gerald Rafshoon, President Jimmy Carter’s former media adviser. Rafshoon had asked me to write a play about the 1978 Camp David summit ...