Former AJC, Athens journalist Steve Short pens book 'Nearly 59'
The Billy Carter Gas Station Museum is a popular tourist stopover in Plains, a small Georgia city that became famous as the hometown of former U.S. President Jimmy Carter. Back in the years of 1996-97, a woman confined to a wheelchair worked as an museum assistant helping with the hundreds of tourists who would visit the museum established in a former gas station owned by Billy Carter, the former president’s younger brother. The young Carter became a “country boy” celebrity during his brother’s presidency in the 1970s. That employee, Anne Short, was born with spina bifida and while gr...
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