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usatoday.com | Devarrick Turner
• Several employees have worked at Dollywood in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, for all 40 seasons. • Dollywood is consistently ranked a top workplace by Forbes, Newsweek and USA TODAY. • Dolly Parton credits the park’s success to its employees, who she said make guests feel welcome. Rodney Pearson played bass fiddle in a bluegrass band with a group of other 15-year-olds when he took a summer job at an amusement park in Sevier County. The year was 1976.
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knoxnews.com | Devarrick Turner
Several employees have worked at Dollywood in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, for all 40 seasons. Dollywood is consistently ranked a top workplace by Forbes, Newsweek and USA TODAY. Dolly Parton credits the park’s success to its employees, who she said make guests feel welcome. Rodney Pearson played bass fiddle in a bluegrass band with a group of other 15-year-olds when he took a summer job at an amusement park in Sevier County. The year was 1976.
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knoxnews.com | Devarrick Turner
Kelsea Ballerini set out to give her fans a good show during her concert in Tulsa, Oklahoma. But what she probably didn’t expect was one of those fans giving her an awesome bedazzled gift mid-concert!The country singer was performing on April 5 at the BOK Center when a diehard fan caught her attention with a pair of customized boots and a poster. “You made these boots?” Ballerini asked. “Yes! I bedazzled them with your name,” the fan responded. “Can you please take them? I made them for you.
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2 weeks ago |
knoxnews.com | Devarrick Turner
Rodney Pearson played bass fiddle in a bluegrass band with a group of other 15-year-olds when he took a summer job at an amusement park in Sevier County. The year was 1976. Nearly 50 years later – and reaching retirement next year – Pearson is still working at that same park. Only now he is a construction supervisor, and the Goldrush Junction amusement park has evolved into Dollywood. “I’ve seen a lot,” Pearson told Knox News.
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2 weeks ago |
yahoo.com | Devarrick Turner
Rodney Pearson played bass fiddle in a bluegrass band with a group of other 15-year-olds when he took a summer job at an amusement park in Sevier County. The year was 1976. Nearly 50 years later – and reaching retirement next year – Pearson is still working at that same park. Only now he is a construction supervisor, and the Goldrush Junction amusement park has evolved into Dollywood. “I’ve seen a lot,” Pearson told Knox News.
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