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. National ...

PLAINS, Ga. (WALB) - On December 12, 1974, Jimmy Carter announced his candidacy for president. Carter’s political career ...

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 small post office in Plains, Georgia, will soon be named after the town’s most famous residents: former President Jimmy Carter and his late wife, former first lady Rosalynn Carter. Legislation to ...

PLAINS, Ga. - In a tribute to the Carters’ legacy, the post office in Plains, Georgia, is being renamed the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Post Office. President Joe Biden signed H.R. 9600 into law over ...

PLAINS, Ga. — The crowds have left Plains, Georgia and the town is getting used to a new normal following Thursday's funeral service for President Jimmy Carter. While residents are looking forward to ...

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 ...

Admirers lined the streets of Carter's tiny Georgia hometown on Jan. 9 to get a last glimpse of the 39th U.S. president Bailey Richards is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE ...

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 ...

PLAINS, Ga. (WTOC) - Somber moments in Plains, Georgia Thursday as former President Jimmy Carter’s hearse makes its final journey through his beloved hometown. “Jimmy Carter represents the best in ...

PLAINS, Ga. — A bill renaming the Plains, Ga. post office after the city’s most famed and beloved residents passed the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate. It is now on the way to President ...

A motorcade with the body of Pres. Jimmy Carter travels to his hometown of Plains, Ga., and then on to Atlanta Saturday. This morning begins a nearly weeklong series of funeral events to remember the ...