Rosalynn Carter: ‘The Best Part’ Ended. Then Came the White House.

Rosalynn was born in 1927 to Frances Allethea “Allie” Murray and Wilburn Edgar Smith. She grew up in the small town of Plains, Georgia, where her mother grew flowers like “zinnias, petunias, hollyhocks, [and] crepe myrtle” as well as “fig, pear, pecan and wild cherry [trees], and pomegranate bushes.” Young Rosalynn once tumbled out of the sitting room window into a rosebush. They had a milk cow, pigs and chickens. She learned to sew. There was “no movie theater, no library, no recreation center,” but she read “Heidi and Hans Brinker and Robinson Crusoe.” <a href="https://tuckerlieberman.medium.com/rosalynn-carter-first-lady-0b5762c4e99b">Visit Now</a>