HISTORY & Entertainment
JOHNNY CASH
Johnny Cash, the legendary country music
artist, will forever be remembered as the “Man in
Black,” but here in Port Richey, he shed the dark
duds for shorts, T-shirts and a fishing
pole. Family ties brought Johnny Cash
to Port Richey back in the 1960’s, where
his mother-in-law, country singing
matriarch Maybelle Carter, owned a
riverside house on Sunset Boulevard.
Cash and his wife, June Carter Cash,
inherited the property in 1979, a year
after Maybelle Carter died.
Cash enjoyed helping out his
adopted community here in Port
Richey. On numerous occasions
Cash performed benefit shows to
help out the local law enforcement
agency, as well as others. When
Cash wasn’t out on the road
playing shows, he was enjoying peace and
solitude out on the Gulf of Mexico. He was a
regular at Korman’s Marina (now Sunset Landing
Marina) where he would stop in and pick up bait
to take out to his friend’s Fish Camp right on the
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