...place to stay. In the tiny downtown where Mr. Carter centered his successful campaign for the presidency, the Plains Historic Inn is like taking a trip through the past 10 years at a time. Each of the seven rooms represents a decade of Mr...

...classes at Maranatha Baptist Church. Those classes attract between 200 and 800 people each Sunday. Mr. Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, also were part of a hometown effort to establish the Plains Historic Inn & Antique Mall on Main Street.