Remembering Dolly Parton: A look back at her Vancouver concerts

Global icon Dolly Parton died today in her hometown of Nashville. The beloved singer, songwriter, actress, author, playwright and philanthropist was 80 years old.Born on Jan. 19, 1946, in a one-room cabin in Pittman Centre, Tenn., Dolly Rebecca Parton was the fourth of 12 children. She was part of a poor sharecropping family, whose house echoed with songs from her mother’s Welsh ancestors, Smoky Mountain folk songs, and her preacher grandfather’s Pentecostal hymns.All of these eleme