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Gifted in song and storytelling, Parton got the rainbow
Biographer Martha Ackmann says Parton’s father bartered for her birth and bought shoes that often did not fit.
- In "Ain't Nobody's Fool: The Life and Times of Dolly Parton," author Martha Ackmann details the humble upbringing of Dolly Parton in East Tennessee, exploring her early life and the transactional nature of regional healthcare.
- Dolly Rebecca Parton was born during a time when doctors in the Great Smoky Mountains were paid with goods like cornmeal, to parents who married when her father was 17.
- Ackmann writes that Parton's father would measure his children's feet with sticks once a year to ensure they could buy shoes, though they often did not fit properly.
- Living in East Tennessee, Parton and other children often ran barefoot, leading to frequent injuries; Ackmann notes that calamities were inescapable for country kids in that era.
- While her parents could not have imagined the massive success she would later achieve, these early experiences shaped the ethic of the legendary star, reflecting a life of self-reliance.
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Richmond RegisterWILL: Gifted in song and storytelling, Dolly Parton got the rainbow
The doctor who ushered the infant Dolly Rebecca Parton into the world in 1946 was paid with a sack of cornmeal. Such was the transactional nature of health care for some around the Great Smoky Mountains in East Tennessee. Her…
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Gifted in song and storytelling, Parton got the rainbow
The doctor who ushered the infant Dolly Rebecca Par-ton into the world in 1946 was paid with a sack of cornmeal. Such was the transactional nature of healthcare for some around the Great Smoky Mountains in East Tennessee. Her father…
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