October 11, 2007

We are on our way to Memphis and we are spending one night in Pickwick state park. We stopped to see the home of country singer, Loretta Lynn. She lives in the town of Hurricane Mills and she owns the town, (the post office pays her rent every month) Her original home she built is now a museum,(picture) so she has a new one behind the old one they call Plantation Home. She has a replica of her folks home on Butcher Holler that is exactly the same size and has the exact same furniture and decor that the original had.(picture) Her brother has the original home where it was built and he does a tour business with the original house also. She has a small duplicate coal mine like the one she wrote her song about (Coal Miner's Daughter.) in her town. All the business's in the town are hers.
She was at home and her sister Crystal Gayle was there. They didn't come outside where we could see them. She has a house full of Avon Products and still buys more. The dealer is her original Avon lady, but with sales like that she only needs one customer. We got quite a chuckle out of all the cabinets and dressers full of those collectors bottles.