| Old Barn wood | | Someone I know is tearing down an old barn. I paint windows so he rescued some of the four pane ones for me to paint and sell on my crafts sales. Yesterday he brought me some old barn wood...siding with just touches of red paint on them. I was thinking of having him do some frames and I could put one of my poems in them. He builds bird houses out of them. Do any of you have any ideas for what I could do with the wood beside picture frames? | |
| | Johnny Cash's Home Ruined in Fire | | By KRISTIN M. HALL, Associated Press Writer
HENDERSONVILLE, Tenn. - Johnny Cash's longtime lakeside home, a showcase where he wrote much of his famous music and entertained U.S. presidents, music royalty and visiting fans, was destroyed by fire on Tuesday. Cash and his wife, June Carter Cash, lived in the 13,880-square-foot home from the late 1960s until their deaths in 2003."So many prominent things and prominent people in American history took place in that house — everyone from Billy Graham to Bob Dylan went into that house," said singer Marty Stuart, who lives next door and was married to Cash's daughter, Cindy, in the 1980s.Stuart said the man who designed the house, Nashville builder Braxton Dixon, was "the closest thing this part of the country had to Frank Lloyd Wright."When Cash moved there, the road was a quiet country lane that skirts Old Hickory Lake. Kris Kristofferson, then an aspiring songwriter, once landed a helicopter on Cash's lawn to pitch him a song.The landmark video for Cash's song "Hurt" was shot inside the house."It was a sanctuary and a fortress for him," Stuart said. "There was a lot of writing that took place... | |
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