The Billy Carter Gas Station Museum is a popular tourist stopover in Plains, a small Georgia city that became famous as the hometown of former U.S. President Jimmy Carter.
Back in the years of 1996-97, a woman confined to a wheelchair worked as an museum assistant helping with the hundreds of tourists who would visit the museum established in a former gas station owned by Billy Carter, the former president’s younger brother.
The young Carter became a “country boy” celebrity during his brother’s presidency in the 1970s.
That employee, Anne Short, was born with spina bifida and while growing up near Plains, she saw it transform from the unremarkable to a tourist destination.