Dolly Parton's Smoky Mountain Roots

Clues in this puzzle

Across

• Deep cultural ties Dolly never abandoned despite global stardom (5)
• Guiding spiritual compass that sustained the Parton family through hard winters (5)
• Hewn timber used to build the two-room home in Locust Ridge (3)
• Southern state whose mountain greenery nurtured Dolly's earliest melodies (9)
• Garment stitched from multi-colored scraps that inspired an iconic ballad (4)
• ___ Forge, the foothills town that became home to Dollywood (6)
• Descriptive of Dolly's childhood isolation far from bustling cities (5)

Down

• Colorful textile scraps transformed into a schoolgirl's prized treasure (4)
• Dolly had eleven of them, as the fourth of twelve Parton children (8)
• Bowed instrument whose lively reels echoed at local hoedowns (6)
• Sacred song Dolly first belted out in her grandfather's rural church (4)
• Driving mountain sound marked by rapid picking and high lonesome tones (9)
• County in East Tennessee where young Dolly was born and raised (6)
• Twangy five-stringed instrument heard picking across mountain front porches (5)

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