Miss Lillian Visits Montpelier, St. Helena Parish, Louisiana
File submitted by Mrs. Inez Bridges Tate and prepared by D.N. Pardue
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From publication "Old Montpelier, 1804, New Montpelier, 1904" 
compiled by Inez B. Tate and published by St. Helena Historical
Association, 1993.  Reprinted with permission.

     Approximately 500 people gathered at Bear Creek on Sept. 24,

1980 when Mrs. Lillian Carter, mother of President Jimmy Carter,

visited.  She was "stumping" for her son who was campaigning for 

re-election.  She was presented with a key to the city by Mayor

Bryan Dykes.  The affair was a bar-be-que fund raiser.

     Miss Lillian "dedicated" the mechanical bull and was pre-

sented a cowboy hat.
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