Arkansas Johnny Cash historian to give talk
TEXARKANA, Texas — An expert on singer Johnny Cash will give a lecture on his Arkansas ties Friday.
Dr. Adam Long will focus on Cash’s history in Arkansas, as well as the prison concert he performed at the Arkansas State Penitentiary at Cummins in 1969. Long will also present brief footage from this historic concert that aired on Arkansas TV, according to a news release from the Texarkana Regional Arts and Humanities Council.
The event is in conjunction with TRAHC’s current exhibition, titled “1968: A Folsom Redemption.” The show is a collection of photographs and memories of two journalists lucky enough to be among a handful of eyewitnesses to the historic Cash concerts at Folsom State Prison.
Long is the executive director of Arkansas State University’s Heritage Sites. This program preserves four historic sites of national significance in the Arkansas
Delta region, including the Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum, the Southern Tenant Farmers Museum, the Lakeport Plantation and the Historic Dyess Colony: Johnny Cash Boyhood Home.
He is also the administrator of Crowley’s Ridge Parkway and a member of the Arkansas Delta Byways regional tourism association board.
The exhibition is a Program of Exhibits USA, a national division of Mid-America Arts Alliance, with Texas Commission on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.
(Long’s talk is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 9, 2022, at the Regional Arts Center, 321 W. Fourth St., and admission is free. The RAC is open to the public 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. All of TRAHC’s visual art exhibitions are free of charge to the public. School and civic group tours are available upon request.)
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