Local country roots featured in exhibit

(Aegis) If you were around Harford County in the 1960s, the chances are good that you or your parents would have made the short drive up Route 1 some summer weekend to hear country music at its finest played live at one of the area's two music parks, New River Ranch near Rising Sun or Sunset Park near Oxford, Pa.
If you're not old enough to have been part of the scene, you've probably heard stories about the parks from relatives or friends who saw the likes of Johnny Cash, Hank Snow, George Jones, Kitty Wells, Ray Price, Flatt and Scruggs, Bill Monroe and the Bluegrass Boys or the Stanley Brothers perform at either park. Often for just $1 a person — children under 12 admitted free — fans could take in an afternoon and evening of what most of us today call "classic country." Continued