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How a librarian became Jimmy Carter's pen pal for two decades

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How a librarian became Jimmy Carter's pen pal for two decades

• Nancy McLaughlin
• Jan 8, 2025
• Jan 8, 2025
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Jim Lutzweiler has 73 letters and memos Jimmy Carter wrote him. Their friendship started with an essay he wrote that he sent to Carter about Carter's talk of leaving the Southern Baptist Convention.

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Jim Lutzweiler had traveled to Plains, Ga., to find the grave of Jimmy Carter’s colorful brother, Billy, whose shenanigans he had followed, and came across the epitaph for the former president’s sister, Gloria. It read: “She rides in Harley Heaven.”

Jim Lutzweiler with his letters he received from President Jimmy Carter at his home in Jamestown, on March 13, 2023.

WOODY MARSHALL, NEWS & RECORD

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Jim Lutzweiler keeps his letters he received from President Jimmy Carter in a three-ring binder at his home in Jamestown.

WOODY MARSHALL, NEWS & RECORD

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Their first correspondences date back to October 2000.

WOODY MARSHALL, NEWS & RECORD

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WOODY MARSHALL, NEWS & RECORD

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WOODY MARSHALL, NEWS & RECORD

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Their first correspondences date back to October 2000.

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