An Hour Before Daylight. by Jimmy Carter: on Principles & Values


Grew up in Archery, GA; no longer exists except for church

Just beyond the town [of Plains, Georgia] there is a place called Archery, where the topography begins to change for the first time since Savannah, from flat plains to rolling hills and poorer soils that extend on to the Chatahoochee River, which divides Georgia from Alabama. Archery is no longer there, except on the old maps, but it's where I grew up and lived from when I was 4 years old in 1928 until the very end of the Great Depression, when I left for college and the US Navy in 1941.

190 miles west of Savannah, Plains is located exactly 120 miles due south of Atlanta. It is surrounded by productive farms, and seems to have citizens who are exceptionally inclined to resist moving away to distant places.

Archery, on the other hand, was never quite a real town. Except for the church, which is still vibrant and active, all the rest is gone.

Source: An Hour Before Daylight, by Jimmy Carter, p. 14-15 Dec 16, 2001

  • The above quotations are from An Hour Before Daylight
    Memories of a Rural Boyhood
    by Jimmy Carter.
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