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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Bill Barrow

Jimmy Carter receives accolades from afar, and right at home

Copyright 2016 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

Chad Loshbaugh and his seventh-grade son, Theo, were starting a historical tour for their winter break when they heard that former President Jimmy Carter had begun end-of-life care at home.

So the father-son pair from Albany, New York, changed their itinerary and found themselves Wednesday on the Carter family farm in Plains, where the 39th president grew up and about a mile from the one-story house where the 98-year-old now is receiving hospice care.

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