ATLANTA (AP) - Six of Georgia's first ladies took center stage to regale an audience, including four former governors, with stories about what it was like to live in the governor's mansion.
Monday night's panel included former U.S. first lady Rosalynn Carter and Georgia's current first lady, Sandra Deal, wife of Gov. Nathan Deal.
The event at the Atlanta History Center was held to launch a book Sandra Deal co-wrote about homes Georgia governors have occupied, particularly the Atlanta mansion built in 1968.
Deal gathered information from employees, volunteers and historians. When docents who give tours at the home urged her to write down the stories, she began working with two professors at Kennesaw State University.
Proceeds from the book will go toward repairs on the Atlanta mansion and its grounds.
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