The house nearest Jimmy Carter's childhood home, between the barn and the main road, belonged to Jack and Rachel Clark. Jack Clark oversaw the barn, the mules and horses, the equipment and harness, and seldom worked in the fields, seeming to Carter and the other boys to be in charge of everything. Rachel Clark stood out for her character and demeanor and was renowned for her skill as a field worker, whether hoeing, picking cotton, or shaking peanuts. She took Carter fishing and taught him the names of trees and wildflowers, the habits of animals, and how to avoid getting lost in the woods and swamps. When both of Carter's parents were away, he stayed with Jack and Rachel, and because of this he felt at ease in the homes of other black families in the neighborhood; his childhood world, he recalled in 1999, was really theirs. The Clark home originally stood in the curve of the highway to the right, but road work in the 1960s moved it to its present site. Up the road was the whistle-stop community of Archery, populated mostly by African-American families, some of whom worked for Earl Carter on his farm.