Former President Jimmy Carter is being remembered in six days of state funeral events that began Saturday​ with a service at his boyhood home in Plains, Georgia.

While his home was always in the small Georgia town, Atlanta gave him the opportunities to cement a political and humanitarian legacy.

Former President Jimmy Carter may have only served one term as governor, but he left his mark in many ways before leaving for Washington, even literally. With a pencil, Carter signed the desk in the governor’s ceremonial office,