Loretta Lynn's Ranch l Tennessee Crossroads l 3512.1

[Music] we had originally planned to air our first story spotlighting loretta lynn's ranch a few weeks ago then tragedy struck catastrophic rains west of nashville took a terrible toll in lives lost and homes destroyed well our hearts go out to all those who were impacted by the storms we received word from loretta's ranch saying they've been working tirelessly to reopen and running the story now would greatly help them get back on their feet so how could we say no laura faber takes us to the home of the one and only coal miner's daughter [Music] she is one of the original queens of country music 24 number one hits 11 number one albums loretta lynn is a music icon she also owns a town which has become one of the top tourist attractions in tennessee it's a three-part business kind of all mashed in together to make one unique giant business here in rural middle tennessee we're a campground an event center and a tourist attraction all based around loretta lynn anthony bruto is the general manager of the loretta lynn ranch which spans more than 3 000 acres in humphreys county i've always viewed the ranch as this event venue this this unique place that we can do all sorts of different things we are at the 40th year for the amateur national motocross championship we are at the 38th year of our horseback week-long trail rides we're at the 20th year of the mtdr motorcycle off-road rides the jeep event that just happened 1200 jeeps and thirty five hundred people you know they come out and they get to enjoy the property like i did like our family did and and exactly how meemaw wants it to happen yep anthony called loretta lynn meemaw he is her grandson for me loretta lynn there are two different versions of loretta lynn they're the same but they're also different i have loretta lynn as a grandmother she is just like everybody else's grandmother when i got in trouble i would get spanked with a wooden spoon fly swat or whatever was in within arm's reach but when it comes to loretta lynn as a stage performer she is one of the most awarded ladies in country music she is i mean she's won pretty much every award that you can been nominated for every award that there is she has everything from grammys to the presidential medal of freedom she still to this day is is rocking out she's got six decades of music under her belt she's got 60 studio albums the 18 000 square foot museum is full of clues about loretta's life family photos her many awards her gorgeous dresses some weigh 30 pounds you can even walk through her tour bus all right so this was the original bus of my grandmother of loretta lynn they say that there's about three million miles on this bus tayla lynn is also one of loretta lynn's grandchildren an entertainer and ranch ambassador she tours with conway twiddy's grandson performing many of the duo songs i think that one of the most important things for me in my life is to preserve the legacy of loretta lynn of my grandmother we have the museum here that you know she was a hoarder for a really long time and tim kopp who is her her right hand has done such a beautiful job with putting this museum together and and preserving that um you know she talks about how the whole reason they have the ranch is for the fans is for the people is is so that her music can live on and not just her music but but what she's done as a woman as an entertainer as you know in women's rights in just a moment as a truth-teller so absolutely it's it's one of my most important journeys as the story goes loretta and her husband mooney were looking for a place to settle in the country and got lost they stumbled across the waterfall by an old gristmill and up on the hill a beautiful white house when they bought the 19th century plantation in 1966 almost the entire town of hurricane mills came with it the town's working post office still resides on her ranch when people found out that loretta lynn lived out here though they started coming to see where loretta lynn lived you know and and it started off as people would come and you know take pictures and you could you could meet loretta she was out gardening she was out doing stuff i mean this was her home so what she decided to do was give people a place to stay and it started off a very small campground with very few cabins and it's kind of just grown it's grown to be one of the largest campgrounds in middle tennessee one of the newest additions to the ranch is this mural that spans 40 feet showcasing loretta's legacy from the start to present day also on the property includes an exact replica of the home that loretta grew up in in butcher holler kentucky ten people lived in this home and it's exact down to the pages from catalogs and magazines that they use to seal up the walls and ceiling the property itself is of historic note with many landmarks from the 1800s the grist mill is one of three buildings on site that sit on the historic register you could buy everything from baby formula to your coffin here and it was one of the first hydroelectric plants in tennessee they say that people used to come from miles in horse and buggy to come and see the lights lit up at night for a short period of time it powered the town of waverly loretta has since moved out of the grand plantation home into a smaller house still on the property but it's changed very little from when she did live there now with mooney's outfit you see the wranglers the work shirt and the cowboy hat that's what you'd have seen that man in any given day from the avocado green bathroom to the kitchen where her old crisco commercials were filmed to her extensive collections i'm gonna tell you real quick y'all she loved her avon lady but not near as much as her avon lady loved her the boots on the floor in her bedroom were actually worn by mooney when they visited the white house loretta lynn's ranch is a special destination created for all of us combining the outdoor beauty and history of small town tennessee and a snapshot of a superstar's well-lived life my job is to preserve the legacy of loretta lynn ranch it's really a blessing and an honor i feel so blessed to be able to to be the face of of sort of of me malls to be able to step onto her social media to step on the ranch's social media to say hi i'm the host welcome to our ranch like that is not something that i take for granted or that i don't thank god for every day that i get to be out here and stand up and say god this is my family's ranch and we welcome you and we love you and isn't mimo awesome [Music] you

Channel: Tennessee Crossroads

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Keywords: Tennessee, Tennessee Crossroads, Southern Food, npt, wnpt, nashville public television, tennessee crossroads, People of Tennessee, destinations, nashville pbs, tennessee pbs, tn, ranch, music, country, star, singer

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Length: 7min 35sec (455 seconds)

Published: Thu Oct 07 2021