Hello Plains, GA and the Carters

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The Ibas and the Carter

 Crops in the Real Georgia are cotton and peanuts.  They rotate them as peanuts, grown underground, are legumes, very good for the soil. Once harvested, they lay on the ground for a couple of days for the dirty to fall off.  then picked up and put in red wagons and hooked up to fans to dry out.  Similar to wheat- stored until purchased for processing.   Fom this stage, folks make boiled peanuts.

Cotton is grown in alternate years - stalky bushes with few leaves about 3' high.  When the pods pop, it's time to harvest.  Hand picking can be hazardous as the pods have such sharp points.  This is what the slaves would harvest before combines.  A lot is left on the plant.

The boll weevil  cut the cotton  but the visitor center said it wasn't an issue in this county of lifetime farmers who cared for their farmland,

The Plains High School is now a museum for the Carters.  Both went to school there graduating in 1940 and 1944.  Now run by NPS, free admission.

Mike looking presidential behind the Resolute desk (replica).

Jimmy Carter still teaches Sunday School at the Baptist Church when in town.

We drove by their home, right along hiway 280 at the edge of Plains.  Gated with secredt service building at the endry.  A sign says "No Stopping".

They are very active internationally with foundations to improve drinking water in poor nations in Africa.