There is a neat symmetry to Carter’s story and to Plains’ quietly glowing presence on the American interior. It remains ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

The post office building in Plains, Georgia will be renamed in honor of former President Jimmy Carter and former first lady Rosalynn Carter this week. The name change comes months after Georgia ...

People traveled from near and far to Plains, Georgia, to pay tribute to former President Jimmy Carter, bringing flowers and personal stories. The news of Carter's death, nearly two years after ...

PLAINS, Ga. — By late Monday morning, flags were at half-staff in this small downtown and the decorations were coming down—early. "This next week was gonna be our packing up Christmas," said Jillian ...

The annual Peanut Festival in Plains celebrated Jimmy Carter's 100th birthday over the weekend. Carter turns 100 Tuesday — making him the oldest living president in U.S. history. Jimmy Carter turns ...

PLAINS, Ga. − From Dollar General to the local high school, Americans had words of admiration in Jimmy Carter's hometown for a local hero who became president and leader of the free world and died ...

Admirers lined the streets of Carter's tiny Georgia hometown on Jan. 9 to get a last glimpse of the 39th U.S. president Jessica McGowan/Getty Jimmy Carter’s fans and admirers are bidding him a final ...

PLAINS, Georgia — Protestant churches often have two flags at the front of their sanctuaries, the American flag on the left and the white banner, blue rectangle and red cross of the Christian flag on ...

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 between ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The small post office in Plains, Georgia, will soon be named after the town’s most famous residents: former President Jimmy Carter ...

A small-town post office is about to see a big change. The post office in Plains, Georgia — home to just over 500 people — is set to be renamed in honor of the town's most famous residents: the late ...