He’s not Elvis, but Garth Brooks is part of history now

[img_assist|nid=6197|title=Click on photo to enlarge or download|desc=Garth Brooks explains how he wrecked a guitar to Brent Glass, right, director of the National Museum of American History, and Dwight Blocker Bowers, a museum curator. – Photo by Brenda Keino.|link=popup|align=left|width=250|height=188]WASHINGTON - As he shook hands and mingled, he could have been anyone.

But his trademark black cowboy hat soon gave him away, and an excited throng stood in line for autographs and pictures with him.