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PLAINS, Ga. (WALB) – Today marks a historic moment in Plains, Georgia, as the Carters’ gravesite officially opens to the public for remembrance and reflection. Nestled within a serene memorial garden ...
Post office in Plains, Georgia, to be renamed to honor Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter - Jimmy Carter grew up in Plains, Georgia, ...
The rural town of Plains, Ga., pop. 600, was astir early Wednesday with law enforcement, volunteers and news reporters ahead of the funeral and burial service of former first lady Rosalynn Carter.
PLAINS, Ga. – It's not the typical sight at a food drive: a woman with a walker and a Secret Service agent by her side, passing out bread, fresh fruits and peanuts to dozens of families.
Former first lady Rosalynn Carter will be laid to rest after her funeral concluded Wednesday in Plains, Ga., where she and her husband, former president Jimmy Carter, lived most of their lives ...
People in Plains, Ga., are remembering former President Jimmy Carter who died on Sunday at the age of 100. Carter embraced his hometown and never forgot the importance of the place.
Plains, Ga., the birthplace and home of President Jimmy Carter, is preparing to say goodbye to former First Lady Rosalynn Carter. Grant Blankenship of Georgia Public Broadcasting talked with ...
PLAINS, Ga. — With her frail husband as a silent witness, Rosalynn Carter was celebrated by her family and closest friends Wednesday at her funeral in the same tiny town where she and Jimmy ...
PLAINS, Ga. — Jimmy Carter has always come home to Plains. After leaving the Navy in 1953, he returned to Plains, the tiny Georgia town where he was raised, and where he eventually started the ...
Plains, Georgia doesn’t have a big grocery store, robust dining options or a movie theater. But, until just days ago, it has had a former leader of the free world.
Plains, Ga., had been bracing for the inevitable through the former president’s ailments and nearly two years of hospice care. Still, his death, at 100, “doesn’t seem real.” ...
PLAINS, Ga. — To the world, he was a former president and global humanitarian. But here in this quiet Southern town, Jimmy Carter was something altogether more — a Sunday school teacher, a ...