So, in the same year, she invited the fifth and sixth graders to her amusement park, Dollywood. She gathered the pupils and asked them to pair up with a friend as part of a motivating buddy system. If both children went on to graduate, she said she would offer them both a $500 ...
on the other side of Wears Valley—is Pigeon Forge, home of attractions including Dollywood, the Pigeon Forge Gem Mine, the Hatfield McCoy Dinner Show, and the Biblical Times Dinner Theater, which bills itself as “The #1 Christian Dinner Show in Pigeon Forge.” If...