Cash's childhood home opens to public

Country music legend Johnny Cash's childhood home has been opened to the public as part of a drive to revitalise the Arkansas town (USA) where he grew up. The Cash family moved to the house in Dyess in 1935, when Johnny was three, as part of a government drive to help families after the Great Depression.

The five-room wooden home has been refurbished and features the family's piano as well as other period items.

The most meaningful item, his sister Joanne Cash said, was the piano. “We used to gather around that piano at night and sing gospel for an hour. That was our entertainment.” The Cashes were among 500 families who moved to the new settlement under President Franklin D Roosevelt's New Deal.

Cash began his recording career in 1955 later and went on to become one of the giants of American popular music. He died in 2003.

Source: BBC