The ticket attendant at the Dollywood theme park entrance catches my accent. ‘I hear that Dolly Parton is a big deal in the UK,’ he says, before dropping his voice to a whisper: ‘Then again, I always think people are a bit weird if they don’t love Dolly.’
He’s got a point. A quick glance around Dolly’s amusement park, situated in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in East Tennessee, confirms that regardless of age, wealth, nationality