08/25/2026
We will always, and forever, love you, Mrs. Dolly Parton. 🤍
Today feels especially heavy here at Poppie Ruth. Dolly has been more than just an icon to me, she has been a little piece of the soundtrack to my life.
I grew up listening to her songs, and somewhere along the way, they became the backdrop to some of life’s biggest milestones. I listened to Dolly through college, through falling in love and getting married, and now, as I stand in the little shop that we dreamed of, Poppie Ruth.
Her music has followed me through seasons of growing up, becoming a wife, chasing dreams, and building something of our own. There’s something so special about realizing that the songs you grew up with are still there, holding a little piece of you in every season.
Thank you for being such a beautiful, iconic backwoods Barbie, and for showing little Eastern North Carolina girls like me that we could be feminine, spunky, country, kind, and unapologetically ourselves, while still dreaming BIG.
Thank you for the music, the stories, the rhinestones, the big hair, and most of all, for giving generations of little girls someone to look up to.
Forever a legend. Forever our Dolly. And forever a part of my story. 💕🎀✨
-Catherine Grace Price