Season 2, Episode 39-Jimmy Carter and the Carter Home

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Season 2, Episode 39: Jimmy Carter and the Carter Home

Deep in the heart of Georgia, our only return trip of the season, to Jimmy Carter’s birthplace and lifelong home, Plains, Georgia. Learn about Jimmy Carter, 39th President; his political rise and career; his election and Presidency; his wife, Rosalynn, and children; and his home!

Be sure to check out Jimmy Carter’s “Visiting the Presidents” Episode from Season 1, “Jimmy Carter and Plains”!

“The Un-Celebrity President” from Washington Post.

Jimmy Carter’s House from “All That’s Interesting.”

“Jimmy Carter, Park Service Prepare for ‘Life After Death'” from Greenwire.

“Carter’s Island Retreat ‘Great Place'” from New York Times on Simons Island.

“President, Vacation on Island, to ‘Read, Sleep, Fish” from New York Times on Sapelo Island.

“President Carter’s Middle Fork Trip” from GoRafting.com.

From My June 2017 Visit!

With the peanut!
Jimmy Carter’s birthplace on the other side of town
Downtown Plains
Love this photo!
Plains

Meeting Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter!

With Rosalynn and Jimmy Carter!
Waiting to get into Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains.
Jimmy appearing!
Jimmy’s beautiful message

From My May 2022 Visit!

In Plains, Georgia with the famous smiling peanut!
Downtown Plains!
Accurate
Driving by the Carter compound.
At the gate to the Carter home.
As close as I would get
On the streets of Plains
Jimmy Carter’s home in Plains
The Carters in front of their home.
The Carter home from the Library of Congress.
The Carters at their home with Howard Dean in 2004.

Inside the Carter Home from “Homes of the Presidents”

Jimmy’s office
The Carter living room
The Carter family room.
The Bidens visiting the Carters.
Christmas Card of the Carter House by Jimmy Carter.
The Carters walking home in Plains.
Portrait of Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter

Jimmy Carter Home: 209 Woodland Drive, Plains, Georgia.

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Recommended Reading for Jimmy Carter

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