Despite the new hustling, Carter's home town resists change
Novelist Reynolds Price (A Long and Happy Life, The Surface of Earth) went to Plains, Ga., two years ago to report for TIME on President Carter's home town. A native of North Carolina himself, Price returned to Plains recently to see what change the presidency has wrought.
"I first came down here from Macon County more than 30 years ago to nurse my cousin who was having a baby," says the fiftyish waitress who serves me my first cup of coffee on Main Street. "Now I can't...
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