![]() And to her, that was an important way to reflect back on Mrs. She was one of three women charged with cleaning up the classrooms and hallways - you know, vacuuming and dusting and just getting the place ready for all those visitors. And that's also where I met Lisa Cobb of Butler, Ga. And, of course, next week it will see people from all over the world who will gather to honor Mrs. ![]() And you can still buy a Plains Buffalo T-shirt in the gift shop in the school, which today is the National Park Service's Jimmy Carter Historic Site. What can you tell us about their lives when they grew up there?īLANKENSHIP: Well, you know, they both attended Plains High School, where the mascot was the buffalo. Now, I know both Carters were born and raised there in Plains. Annette Wise says today there are official Rosalynn Carter Butterfly Trail gardens in Europe and Japan. But that one garden has led to over 3,000 gardens scattered all around the United States.īLANKENSHIP: Yeah, and not just the United States. We wanted to have milkweed in it and native plants and plants that would attract butterflies and serve as a habitat for them. So that one garden - that started in her front yard. Carter first learned of worldwide decline of insects and asked Annette Wise if she'd help create what, today, you might know as your pollinator garden.ĪNNETTE WISE: And I said, yes, ma'am, I'll be glad to. She says the gardens started over a decade ago, when Mrs. I met Annette Wise working in one right by the city welcome sign. The most obvious examples of that are the butterfly gardens bearing her name that are scattered across town. How do people there in her hometown of Plains remember her?īLANKENSHIP: Well, you know, they remember her as a visionary in other ways, too. Nationally, Rosalynn Carter was well-known for a number of things, but particularly her work on mental health issues, her advocacy for caregivers. ![]() Grant Blankenship with Georgia Public Broadcasting is in Plains. The wife of former President Jimmy Carter died yesterday at her home there. The small town of Plains, Ga., is remembering former first lady Rosalynn Carter.
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