City Girl Goes Country

You can go home, again, I reckon.

It looks like something from a Hallmark movie,” my friend says as we drive down Main Street.

“It” is Rison, a small south Arkansas town in Cleveland County where my parents’ families landed in the 1800s. My roots run six generations deep in this county–the same place that gave the world Johnny Cash. He was born the same year my dad was: 1932.

My parents r…