Tucked into a nondescript archway astatine Dollywood's DreamMore Resort is an unreleased Dolly Parton opus written to beryllium her last.
Located successful the lower-level lobby, a chestnut "Dream Box" displayed successful a solid lawsuit contains a signaling of "My Place In History," a opus Parton wrote to beryllium released connected her 100th day successful 2046.
"I don't cognize if I want to unrecorded to beryllium 100 aliases not. But you ne'er know," Parton wrote successful her 2020 book, "Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life successful Lyrics." "I might, and if I do, I'm going to beryllium astatine that opening."
Parton died Tuesday astatine the property of 80.
Parton wrote "My Place In History" successful 2015, the twelvemonth that she opened the DreamMore Resort successful Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. She recorded the opus connected a CD and included a CD subordinate successful the chestnut container arsenic well.
"There's nary telling what euphony is going to beryllium by then," Parton wrote successful her book. "Hopefully, it will play and the full point ain't rotted."
The solid lawsuit besides features a portion of wood from the beforehand structure of Parton's puerility home successful Sevierville, Tennessee, wherever she grew up singing pinch her 11 siblings.
The show is 1 of galore tributes to Parton passim the DreamMore Resort, including a hallway lined pinch images of her medium covers and her bedazzled instruments hanging successful the lobby.
Parton's euphony career spanned 7 decades, having released her first No. 1 state medium successful 1977. She holds the Guinness World Record arsenic the female pinch the longest span of No. 1 hits connected the US Top Country Albums chart, astatine 46 years and 197 days. In September 2025, she announced the postponement of her Las Vegas residency scheduled for that December owed to "health challenges."
Editor's note: This communicative was primitively published successful July 2022 and updated successful August 2026.
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