Dollywood reveals how Dolly Parton’s legacy will live on

Dollywood will forever bask in Dolly Parton’s bright light. A week after losing their Dreamer-in-Chief, Dollywood leaders are planning new ways to forever honor Parton.

The park and nearby Sevierville, Tennessee, will honor Parton's “remarkable legacy” and “extraordinary life” with a new character at the park, an expansion of the Dolly Parton Experience and a new "In Dolly’s Footsteps" walking tour marking locations in Sevierville that Parton and her family frequented.

"The curtain on this first act has fallen. And now time has come to start to talk about the journey forward, the next steps that we need to do because Dolly would be telling us to get back to work," Dollywood President Eugene Naughton said Sept. 2 inside the park's DreamSong Theater.

"She knew what she wanted Dollywood to be. She always wanted this to be a place of fun and togetherness (and) she taught us here at Dollywood how to dream big," Naughton continued.

The centerpiece of the tributes Dollywood will be adding in honor of Parton will be a cascading waterfall near the front steps of Robert F. Thomas Chapel. Naughton previously revealed the idea for the permanent fixture to Knox News on Aug. 26, the day…

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