PLAINS, Ga. — Lisa Powell Humphries lives just a little more than an hour south of Jimmy Carter’s hometown of Plains, but she’d never been.
Then, on Feb. 18, came the announcement that Carter was entering home hospice care. A few days later, the 57-year-old Georgian and her husband bought tickets on the SAM Shortline excursion train to Plains.
“My dad thought Jimmy Carter was better than peanut butter,” Powell Humphries said. “I just wanted to come before something happened to him, and bring them,” she added, indicating two teenage granddaughters.