Dolly Parton was truly an American original

We lost an icon last week. Dolly Parton is dead. I heard about it in Faneuil Hall in Boston. A clerk in a shop remarked on it, and at first I thought I had misheard. But when we got back to the hotel, it was all over the news. It was as if the whole world mourned together. Dolly was the American success story. She was raised in a one-room cabin with 11 siblings, the fourth of 12 children. Her father could neither read nor write. She grew up with very little, a childhood she memorialized in her hit song “Coat... Article Link