Rodney Pearson played bass fiddle in a bluegrass band with a group of other 15-year-olds when he took a summer job at an amusement ... to the park’s Dreamer-in-Chief, Dolly Parton.

A dose of Southern hospitality is bound for the West Coast as a co-owner of the Dollywood theme park scoops up four amusement parks ... based parent company of Dolly Parton’s Tennessee theme ...