It seems like a Smoky Mountain dream to get to experience Dollywood with the Queen of Tennessee by your side, but Dolly Parton’s late husband Carl Dean had a different approach to the mountain theme park in Pigeon Forge.

Dolly Parton said she’s “doing better than I thought I would,” weeks after losing her husband of nearly 60 years, Carl Dean. But “that don’t keep me from missing him and loving him.” Parton, 79, spoke about her late husband in an interview with the Knoxville News Sentinel when she appeared at a recent event for season pass holders at Dollywood,