The Jimmy Carter Peanut State is a monument in Jimmy Carter's hometown of Plains, Georgia, and was a tribute to the late president - who has died aged 100 - and his small-town roots. The quirky ...

In the spring of 1977, President Jimmy Carter, the former peanut farmer who had just taken office, was offered a big gift — if you can call it that — from the misty Northern California coast.

A statue of a smiling peanut honoring former US President Jimmy Carter stands in the statesman’s hometown of Plains, Georgia. The second-tallest statue of a peanut in the world, the 13-foot monument ...

Lillian was a widow — Carter’s father, “Mr. Earl,” died in 1953 — who had turned over management of the family farm and peanut warehouse to Jimmy and Rosalynn. In her late 60s ...

Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter’s romance and 75-year marriage is an enduring part of the former president’s and first lady’s legacies. Peanut butter pie was part of that. Rosalynn Carter shared ...