Scott Swanson
Of The New Era
It was 1992 and Marge Geil had an idea.
She wanted to put on a country music festival in Sweet Home.
Her suggestion did not go over well.
“Everybody just went ‘pooh, that’s not going to happen,'” said Larry Johnson, one of the early volunteers in the event. “That was the general reaction.”
Geil was active in the Sweet Home Economic Development Group, which had been formed to try…