A celebration of Johnny Cash starts tomorrow with the announcement of the publication of a book. Johnny Cash's youngest daughter, Tara Cash Schwoebel, will announce the publication of her book, "Recollections". The event starts tomorrow at 2 p.m. in the Cooper Alumni Center at Arkansas State University. This is the first of three days of events celebrating Cash. Friday night's Johnny Cash Music Festival is sold out. The event takes place at the Convocation Center in Jonesboro and features Country Music Hall of Fame members Reba McEntire, Loretta Lynn and Bobby Bare. On Saturday, the Johnny Cash Boyhood Home in Dyess opens to the public. A ceremony starts at 10 a.m. Saturday morning, and then tours of the home start after the ceremony. The music festival is the major annual fundraiser for the Johnny Cash Boyhood Home.
Johnathan Reaves is the News Director for KASU Public Radio. As part of an Air Force Family, he moved to Arkansas from Minot, North Dakota in 1986. He was first bitten by the radio bug after he graduated from Gosnell High School in 1992. While working on his undergraduate degree, he worked at KOSE, a small 1,000 watt AM commercial station in Osceola, Arkansas. Upon graduation from Arkansas State University in 1996 with a degree in Radio-Television Broadcast News, he decided that he wanted to stay in radio news. He moved to Stuttgart, Arkansas and worked for East Arkansas Broadcasters as news director and was there for 16 years.