Madison, Georgia 2005

I have heard a long time that Madison, Georgia, was the place to look at fine homes.  On the main streets are some very nice homes indeed. 

But Marietta just as nice homes.

The above two pictures is a run-down house that was the stage coach stop "back then".  The West was not the only part of the U.S. that had transportation via stage coach.

Savannah, Ga, about 2005

City Hall

Clary's Restaurant - The above two pictures are where all he eccentrics seemed to hangout the movie "MIDNIGHT IN THE GARDEN OF GOOD AND EVEN"

Juliette Lowe (Girl Scouts founder) birthplace

Paula Dean's Lady And Sons Restaurant

Mercer and Jim William's House (MIDNIGHT IN THE GARDEN OF GOOD AND EVIL)

The Ole' Pink House.  James Habersham's house.

Years ago I went with Anna on a annual conference business trip to Savannah.  One evening her immediate group had dinner The Ole’ Pink House.  We sat at a table, which above us on the wall was a portrait of James Habersham, one of the leaders of Colonel Georgia.

We had a lite polite conversation, mostly talking about their co-workers who were not present.  One loud mouth aggressive there, who I think was a quality control engineer, started talking about one of his co-workers not present.  Apparently the person he was talking critical about is challenged physically, because the aggressive guy started physically imitating him. 

Then, with no warning, a WHAM!  Hit our table.  A normal size hand was lying on the table.  It was an artificial hand.  One of the people there had an artificial hand, which no one thought about until then.

Then the aggressive guy was speechless.

I looked up at the portrait of James Habershm.  He was speechless too.  His expression seemed to changed to shocked.

Sherman's Headquarters

Plains, Georgia, November 1976

Plains Depot

In November 1976 Jimmy Carter won the presidential election.  Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter's home is Plains, Georgia, where he ran his family business, a peanut warehouse.

We wanted to see some current history.   Also in November 1976, the weekend after the election we drove to Plains.  This is what we saw:

Some of these pictures were selected for the Arcadia Book JIMMY CARTER IN PLAINS, THE PRESIDENTIAL HOMETOWN by Robert Bucellato.

Loading ramp at Train Depot

Main shopping strip, downtown Plains

Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter's Church

Jimmy Carter's mother, "Miss Lillian"

Miss Lillian appeared to be paranoid over the being touched by other humans.  She would be very congenial until someone reached out to shake hands or hug her, then she would quickly tell them to "not!"  She was a nurse and the way germs traveled probably "rubbed" off on her.

Carter Peanut Warehouse

Billy Carter 

Is Billy Carter glaring at the Paparazzi?  No, just me.

Billy Carter's Service Station

Beyond this gate was probably Jimmy Rosalynn Carter's home