Dolly Parton wants everyone to get a little more exercise in the pandemic. In the new Apple Fitness+ Time to Walk experience, which debuts today, she shares stories, photos and songs that users can walk along to. While many of us feel confined during this time, she says, I m hopeful that people will take a walk down memory lane with me and we can all feel a little more freedom taking the time to walk together.
One story the nine-time Grammy winner shares is an intimate look at how her father and his sense of humor helped keep her humble. I always feel like I got my work ethic from my dad, she says in the episode. Her dad was a sharecropper who later grew tobacco on his own land to support the family. (Parton was the fourth of 12 kids born to her mother, Avie, and father, Robert). Daddy used to go down to the courthouse where they had erected a statue of me, she says. I remember myself being so proud of that statue. … I thought, A statue of me in the courthouse yard? Th