‘He chose to come back’: Jimmy Carter’s Georgia home town celebrates his life
Dec 31, 2024
In Plains, residents remember the 39th US president as just a ‘regular guy’, good neighbor and Sunday school teacherThe signs, made by hand or machine, less than a meter squared or the size of a truck, were everywhere in this small town on Monday: “Thank you, Jimmy Carter.” “Home of Jimmy Carter.” And, left over from October: “Happy 100th birthday.”Smiling portraits of the 39th president of the US were hanging around the town where he was born and raised – at city hall, in a restaurant. Continue reading...