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'Dyess Colony'

Tennessee hearts Arkansas: Here's the Arkansas programming at Nashville's Americana Fest

At Americanafest's Arkansas contingent this year: Greg Spradlin, Bonnie Montgomery, Willi Carlisle, Dylan Earl, Erin Enderlin, Larry McCray, Jason Weinheimer, Stephen Koch, David Starr, Shannon Wurst and more.
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Restored Johnny Cash Boyhood Home opens to visitors tomorrow

The Dyess Colony Museum and Johnny Cash's restored boyhood home will be open for visitors tomorrow after a restoration project that began in early 2012.
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Hello, I'm Johnny Cash. And I used to live here.

Friend Kat Robinson has a big post on her Arkansas Department of Parks and Tourism blog about an outing to the Historic Dyess Colony, a heritage site and future tourist attraction that is to open to the public in August. She has lots of pictures and background on the work Arkansas State University has done to preserve the boyhood home of Johnny Cash as well as other historic places in the region.
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