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What Matters to You in the South?

What Matters to You in the South?

After covering Congress for four years in Washington, D.C., I moved to Nashville to cover the American South.…

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Dolly Parton's Fans Were Worried. She Came to a Truck Stop to See Them.

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| Breaking One
CORNERSVILLE, Tenn. -- It honestly didn't matter whether or not Dolly Parton was going to show up for the opening of her new truck stop in rural Tennessee. Debbe Lamey Welch would not have missed it. She pulled together an outfit -- glittering silver-fringed cape and boots, rhinestone-studded cowboy hat, blond hair extensions -- and left her job at a senior living center just before the bingo game started to make the nearly two-hour drive.
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Dolly Parton’s Fans Were Worried. She Came to a Truck Stop to See Them. Original

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Dolly Parton’s Fans Were Worried. She Came to a Truck Stop to See Them. Fans have been concerned about the singer’s health since she postponed shows last year. So some were thrilled to catch a glimpse of her on Wednesday. Dolly Parton at the grand opening of Dolly’s Tennessean Travel Stop in Cornersville, Tenn., on Wednesday.Credit...Nicole Hester/The Tennessean, via Imagn Images Reporting from the parking lot of Dolly’s Tennessean Travel Stop in Cornersville, Tenn.
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