In 2012 photographer and friend Wayne Morgan wanted to produce a children’s book to encourage better stewardship of Georgia’s rivers, especially the Little Satilla near his home in Brantley County. I volunteered to write the story in the voice of his grandson Kase. Knowing that Jimmy Carter, as a boy, loved fishing in the Little Satilla with his father, I asked the 39th president to endorse our book. Here is what’s on the back cover of Kase for the Environment (left): “The Satilla Rivers were one of my favo
Jimmy Carter leaves 100-year legacy of making world better
Dink NeSmith
*Editor’s note: A version of this column was first published on Oct. 3, 2024, commemorating President Carter’s 100th birthday.
In 2017 three black SUVs streaked by our older son’s truck on South Georgia’s Corridor Z. His wife, Heather, turned and said, “Alan, there goes President and Mrs.
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