Dolly Parton met Carl Dean outside a Nashville laundromat in 1964. For decades, she was as protective of her marriage as he was fiercely private.
Dolly Parton and her husband Carl Dean died less than two years apart.
Dolly Parton, the 80-year-old country music icon, has spent months largely out of public view, holed up at her 63-acre Tennessee compound while battling kidney stones, immune system problems, digestive issues, and bouts of dizziness that forced her to cancel a high-profile Las Vegas residency. New photographs of the estate, known as Willow Lake Plantation, […] The post Dolly Parton retreats to her $10 million Nashville estate amid ongoing health struggles appeared first on American Almanac .
Dolly Parton, the 80-year-old country music icon, has spent months largely out of public view, holed up at her 63-acre Tennessee compound while battling kidney stones, immune system problems, digestive issues, and bouts of dizziness that forced her to cancel a high-profile Las Vegas residency. New photographs of the estate, known as Willow Lake Plantation, offer a rare look at the sprawling property where Parton has been convalescing. The images show renovated guest houses, outbuildings converted into recording studios, a private chapel, a swimming pool, a tennis court, and a small graveyard plot with three visible plaques, as detailed by The Sun , possibly marking the resting places of beloved pets, including her late Boston Terrier,…Open