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Jimmy Carter Slept Here
Our lives then were centered almost completely around our own family and our own home…Jimmy Carter, 1975 "Why Not The Best?"
This is the homeplace-hot in summer and cold in the winter- of a Georgia farmboy who would someday sleep in the White House. Here young Jimmy Carter ran, dodging dogs, chickens, geese, and guinea fowl. The yard was swept white sand, weeded to keep snakes and bugs away from the house.
Behind you, a woodpile stacked high with hickory, oak, and pine for the fireplaces and kitchen stove took up much of the back yard. A chinaberry tree near the house held a treehouse where Jimmy Carter played.
As you step onto the back porch, listen for the echoes of his father, “Mr. Earl” Carter, hurrying out on some farm business, and his mother, “Miss Lillian,” banging the screen door on her way to help someone with her nursing skills. You’d have found the back door unlocked.(Picture)
Jimmy (far left) and his sisters pose with two friends and Annie Mae Hollis, who often kept the Carter children.
(Picture)
A black and white painting of a farm scene
Our lives then were centered almost completely around our own family and our own home…Jimmy Carter, 1975 "Why Not The Best?"
This is the homeplace-hot in summer and cold in the winter- of a Georgia farmboy who would someday sleep in the White House. Here young Jimmy Carter ran, dodging dogs, chickens, geese, and guinea fowl. The yard was swept white sand, weeded to keep snakes and bugs away from the house.
Behind you, a woodpile stacked high with hickory, oak, and pine for the fireplaces and kitchen stove took up much of the back yard. A chinaberry tree near the house held a treehouse where Jimmy Carter played.
As you step onto the back porch, listen for the echoes of his father, “Mr. Earl” Carter, hurrying out on some farm business, and his mother, “Miss Lillian,” banging the screen door on her way to help someone with her nursing skills. You’d have found the back door unlocked.(Picture)
Jimmy (far left) and his sisters pose with two friends and Annie Mae Hollis, who often kept the Carter children.
(Picture)
A black and white painting of a farm scene