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.www.arkansasheritagesites.astate.eduhttp://www.yourlotandparcel.org

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