That was the sign on the Orick peanut carving – a hulking mass of an old-growth redwood roughly 6 feet tall, 10 feet wide and weighing 9 tons – delivered to the White House in 1978. Orick ...

Thus, Carter, who died at age 100, outlived the Orick peanut. Attitudes in Orick about the president aren’t so black and white today — the Orick Chamber of Commerce actually co-hosted a small ...

Thus, Carter, who died at age 100, outlived the Orick peanut. Attitudes in Orick about the president aren’t so black and white today — the Orick Chamber of Commerce actually co-hosted a small ...

The fate of the town of Orick, nested in a valley along U.S. Highway 101 in Humboldt County, is interwoven with former president Jimmy Carter, who died Sunday. In March 1978, President Jimmy ...

On a brisk November evening, on a drive through the tiny town of Orick some 300 miles north of San Francisco, I scanned the roadside in search of a giant, famous peanut. The 6-foot-tall, 9-foot ...

A 9-ton peanut carved from a redwood tree sits outside the Shoreline Market in Orick, Calif., in 2018. The carving would be mostly destroyed after a vehicle slammed into it in 2023. (Katie Buesch) ...

Former President Jimmy Carter once was offered a gift from Northern California: a 9-ton peanut carved from a redwood tree. His aides said no thanks.

In the spring of 1977, President Jimmy Carter, the former peanut farmer who had just taken office, was offered a big gift — if you can call it that — from the misty Northern California coast. A 9-ton ...