Billy Carter Museum shows ‘whole man’

PLAINS (The Albany Herald) — The gas station headquarters of Billy Carter has been restored and opened in a tribute to the former first brother.

“Billy Carter’s the one that put me on the map,” former President Jimmy Carter said Saturday, at the grand opening of the Billy Carter Service Station Museum, to a group that included tourists, numerous Carter family members and the people of Plains.

“Finally we’re going to have a chance to present Billy’s life in such a manner that the public will see every side of him, not just what they’ve read in the newspapers, the whole man,” said Sybil Carter, Billy Carter’s wife until his death in 1988 and mother of their six children.