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🗓️ 30 May 2025
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0:00.0 | In the smoky mountain town of Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, there is an amusement park. |
0:09.3 | In many ways, it's like any other amusement park you could visit. |
0:12.8 | It's got roller coasters, it's got water rides, it's got a food court where you can stuff yourself with as much cinnamon bread as you can handle. |
0:21.0 | But there's something about this amusement park that makes it really different. |
0:25.8 | The more you know about Dolly, the more you realize everything in the park is about Dolly. |
0:32.0 | Dolly. |
0:32.8 | As in Dolly Parton, the larger-than-life country music star. |
0:37.4 | This is no ordinary amusement park. This is Dolly Parton, the larger-than-life country music star. This is no ordinary amusement park. |
0:39.9 | This is Dollywood. |
0:42.5 | She has a museum there with memorabilia, letters, costumes from many, many, many of her movies, |
0:51.5 | a lot of the gowns that she's worn for award shows or concert performances. |
0:57.3 | You can check out one of Dolly's tour buses. |
1:00.0 | And you could go in and take a look around and see the little bathtub and where she kept her wigs |
1:05.3 | and the bedroom where she slept and everything. |
1:08.8 | You can even wander around her childhood home. |
1:12.1 | Well, a replica of it anyway. |
1:14.4 | I noticed also there's a calendar on the wall from January of 1946 |
1:19.3 | with January 19th circled, which is, of course, Dolly's birthday. |
1:25.0 | At Dollywood, Dolly Parton's life is on full display. |
1:29.0 | That is, until you get to one unassuming little artifact, tucked away on the wider ground |
1:35.4 | of the Dollywood Park. |
1:37.3 | Behind a glass display case, inside a little wooden box, is something that will be locked away until Dolly's 100th birthday in |
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