Former First Lady Rosalynn Carter poses for a portrait in New York City in 2011. Photo by Nikki Kahn/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Ceremonies honoring the life of former first lady Rosalyn Carter have been announced for next week, following her death yesterday.

Carter is being remembered as an outspoken first lady, global humanitarian and, in her hometown of Plains, a humble neighbor.

Plan for Macon’s Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park to become Georgia’s first National Park have hit another obstacle.