Former first lady Rosalynn Carter has dedicated a sculpture of monarch butterflies in a garden named for her in Plains, Georgia — part of Carter’s continuing advocacy for butterflies and their habitat.
Former President Jimmy Carter also attended the dedication ceremony Saturday. The statue is in the Rosalynn Smith-Carter Childhood Garden, next to her childhood home. It is meant to honor Carter days before her 95th birthday on Thursday.
Plains resident Tim Buchannan told WRBL-TV that the sculpture by artist Peter Hazel is to raise awareness of “what the monarch needs to survive, because it was added to the endangered species list just recently.”
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