Growing Up in the Country
Jimmy Carter's memoir

Jimmy Carter
The former president talks to Weekend All Things Considered host Lisa Simeone, talks us on a walking tour of his farm, and discusses his latest book, An Hour Before Daylight: Memories of a Rural Boyhood. June 17, 2001.

Jimmy Carter and Lisa Simeone

Jimmy Carter rests in his screened-in porch

June 17, 2001 -- Earlier this month, Weekend All Things Considered visited former President Jimmy Carter at his boyhood family farm in Plains, Georgia. He took us on a tour of the farm, which is being managed by the National Park Service as an historic site. It is the country's only fully preserved Depression-era farm.

The former President recalled what it was like to grow up in the 1930s, in the segregated South, working side by side with his father and black sharecroppers who lived on the property.

On today's program, we hear President Carter's stories of growing up in Georgia, and his memories of the people who influenced his life. Many of these stories are contained in Mr. Carter's new book An Hour Before Daylight .