‘He chose to come back’: Jimmy Carter’s Georgia home town celebrates his life
by Timothy Pratt in Plains, Georgia from US news | The Guardian on (#6T8EC)
In Plains, residents remember the 39th US president as just a regular guy', good neighbor and Sunday school teacher
The 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.
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