The Sources of Country Music

Jessie Benton says her father approved of the Lyman Family. I am the Keeper of the Benton History, also.

When Rena took me into the museum, she was transformed into Mnemosyne. She showed me the secret of art and memories of past lives. I am a master genealogist. I have been with the boatman on a journey to the hall of names.

Above is Rossetti’s painting of Mnemosyne.

Jon

“Her father approved of the family, Mrs. Benton Lyman says — indeed, some family members served as models for figures in the mural “The Sources of Country Music,” on display at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville, Tenn. Family members also helped Mr. Benton build a stone wall on the Chilmark property.
“My father thought it was great, but my father, you know, was an extraordinary person,” she says. “He liked new ideas. He thought it was…