Johnny Cash’s Boyhood Home and His Music

My guest speaks about when Ray Cash brought his family to Dyess in 1935 after President Franklin Roosevelt's administration carved an agricultural resettlement colony out of snake-infested swampland in Mississippi County. Dyess Colony was an unprecedented government social experiment as part of the New Deal to give 500 down-on-their-luck farmers a chance for a fresh start in life. With no money down, the Cash family was given 20 acres of fertile bottomland and a five-room house in which to live. And Johnny’s boyhood home still stands as it was originally during the depression.

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