In this photo taken Friday, Aug. 8, 2014, rain clouds gather over the childhood home, dating to the mid 1930s, of singer Johnny Cash in Dyess, Ark. Photo: Danny Johnston, AP |
The Colony was a 1930s Works Progress Administration experiment. The federal government brought in 487 families and gave them land and a mule.
"This was a practice in socialism," said Roscoe Phillips, who was born at Dyess 77 years ago. "They took people who had nothing and gave us something. It wouldn't happen today."
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