Mom had talked to a neighbor who said we should go to the country singer, Loretta Lynn's ranch in Hurricane Mills, TN so we set out for it. It was about a 2 hour drive from Memphis. Construction was bad around Memphis so I was glad to get out of there.
Loretta Lynn is 84 years old and still performs about 30 shows a year. She was heading to Texas for her next show. She doesn't fly anywhere but has an RV which we could see from the old house kitchen window. She lived in the big mansion until 1988 and then built a smaller home behind it which she currently lives in. Her sister is Crystal Gale who was popular in the 70s and 80s. Crystal had very long hair.
Loretta came from a family of 8 kids and had 6 kids of her own. One of her son's died in a drowning at a lake nearby and 1 of her daughter's has passed away.
The ranch includes some stores and a coal mine. We went in a tour of her first home and the coal mine.
We drove through 6 lanes of traffic in Nashville and were so glad to get to our hotel in Scottsberg, Indiana which was just north of Louisville, Kentucky.
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