DYESS — If anyone else had grown up there, the small wood-frame house wouldn’t garner a second look. Standing alone off a gravel road among acres of farmland without anything else nearby, the house seems lonesome at 4791 W. County Road 924, about 50 miles southeast of Jonesboro.
But company’s coming. And lots of it, writes Linda Haymes in Tuesday’s Style section.
This 1,120-square-foot white clapboard house with forest green shutters and window boxes, be it ever so humble, is where country music legend Johnny Cash spent his formative years. Those involved in the project say the Historic Dyess Colony restoration and Johnny Cash Boyhood Home museum hope to draw about 50,000 visitors annually, bringing nearly $10 million in tourism-related income to the region.
Read Tuesday's Arkansas Democrat-Gazette for full details.