Across Tennessee, bells toll and music plays on for Dolly Parton

From her Smoky Mountain hometown to Dollywood, the state that shaped the “Queen of Country” is mourning an icon who never stopped giving back.

PIGEON FORGE, Tenn. — Courthouse bells tolled across the Tennessee county that Dolly Parton called home Wednesday, followed by a moment of quiet reflection for an American icon who devoted her life to filling the silence with song.

Just a moment.

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