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Back on his feet, Vernon seemed a bit lost. He would drift in and out of conversations. He would go out into the garden and then find himself in the nearby woods without a clue about how he had gotten there. When asked he admitted to hearing a ringing in his ears. He would slur his speech, but only sometimes. His family worried about Vernon as the days passed.

Making music could cure Vernon suggested Uncle Milt, who played fiddle with a bluegrass group. The man actually believed making music would cure anything but Vernon’s wife’s family quickly warmed to the suggestion. Just happened Milt knew the location of a “fine guitar,” one of his acquaintances had for sale.

After a little haggling Vernon’s wife and sister-in-law bought the guitar from a skinny man who lived in a rooming house in Johnson City. The man kept talking about Nashville. The guitar cost $10. The two women had never seen a guitar like the one they had just purchased.

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