The Mountains Will Keep Singing: Remembering Dolly Parton

On tonight’s porch, Sarah Beth Terry remembers Dolly Parton—the songwriter, mountain woman, philanthropist, businesswoman, and larger-than-life light who never made herself smaller to fit the room.Sarah Beth reflects on Dolly’s East Tennessee beginnings, extraordinary songs, Imagination Library, devotion to home, and the permission she gave generations of women to be country, ambitious, funny, faithful, feminine, and fully themselves.The episode also brings the day’s national, international, West Virginia, and Kentucky headlines; remembers Tim Curry; checks in on late-summer porch life and molting chickens; and serves up trivia, peculiar facts, and an Appalachian vocabulary lesson.It’s an episode about grief, laughter, rhinestones, mountain pride, and carrying the voices we love forward.“We will always love you.”