How Gratitude Defined Dolly Parton

There is a portrait of Dolly Parton sitting on the porch of her childhood home. She has one glitzy cowgirl boot propped on an old log. Her yellow-blonde hair, towering a good six inches over her petite frame, is bright against the gray boards of the one-bedroom cabin where her parents raised 12 children in the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee. She is strumming a guitar that is probably worth more than anything inside the little home, which had neither electricity nor running water. By the time the…