First Lady from Plains memoir by Rosalynn Carter
A readable memoir recounts Rosalynn Carters early life in Plains Georgia and her rise as a political partner to Jimmy Carter. It covers family hardships, meeting Jimmy, Navy life, Plains return, political campaigns, and White House life with the Iran hostage crisis framed in her perspective.
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Wolfsville Picnic and Bazaar at Smith’s Grove
The annual Sunday School Picnic and Bazaar will be held Saturday August 18 at Smith’s Picnic Grove on the Smithsburg Wolfsville Road. Refreshments include home baked cakes pies rolls sandwiches ice cream soft drinks candy and more. Bazaar items quilts fancy work Christmas ornaments dried flowers pine cone wreaths and more. Music by Covenant. Ample parking and picnic tables for family lunches.
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Covenant
Taneytown Lions Crab Feast set for 35th year
The Taneytown Lions Club will hold its 35th annual crab feed on Tuesday August 24 at Memorial Park Taneytown. Serving starts at 515 PM with bushels of steamed crabs fried chicken steamed shrimp potato salad and other treats. Proceeds fund sight and hearing conservation programs ticket sales available at the gate or in advance at a discount. Lion Calvin Amoss chairs the event with Harry Dougherty Truman Hahn Elwood Harner and Delmar Riffle assisting. Donald Lawyer is ticket chairman.
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Truman Hahn
Elwood Harner
Delmar Riffle
Donald Lawyer
Carter Portrait Shows Rosalynn as a Mensh in Crisis
The book portrays the Carters enduring the hostage crisis and campaign trials with candor. It presents Rosalynn Carter as a humane, upright figure whose character shines beyond politics or status, offering a readable portrait of noble decency.
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Carters
Rosalynn Carter
Gibbs graduates reunion for Gibbs secretarial alumni
Local alumnae from 11 Katharine Gibbs secretarial schools plan a Saturday Aug 18 reunion at The Beachhead Colesville estate hosted by Elizabeth Guhring a Washington divorce lawyer and Gibbs NYC graduate. Activities start 1 p.m. with a catered barbecue at 6 p.m. Tickets eight dollars adults four for children 11 and under reservations via Pam Dunton Rockville Gibbs School 891 6000.
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Washington
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New York City
Pam Dunton
Rockville Gibbs School
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