Dollywood After Dolly
Monday, November 9, 2026
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November 9, 2026 |
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It’s been two and a half months since Dolly Parton shuffled off this mortal coil—but the country legend lives on via her Imagination Library book charity, the COVID vaccines she helped fund, the musical bearing her name that opens on Broadway in December, and, of course, Dollywood, the down-home amusement park named for Parton that opened in 1986. Marisa Meltzer recently took a trip down south to observe the mood at Dollywood after the death of its patron saint, only to find that the guests there were mostly intent on enjoying their vacations. “I ask fellow parkgoers if they have come to pay respects. Every single one replies that their trip had been planned long before,” she writes. “Families in seasonal T-shirts seem shy and uninterested in chatting with me, a strangely inquisitive middle-aged woman who wants to ask them if they had heard the rumor that Dolly Parton was secretly covered in tattoos. (They haven’t.)”
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HILLARY BUSISFEATURES EDITOR |
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