The recent passing of Nashville Country Music Star Loretta Lynn naturally reminded me of the day I met her and we chatted briefly.
It was some time during the 1990-93 first three years after my divorce and I had graduated from a student in the Divorce Recovery Class to the teacher of the new recovery group that included the bass player for Loretta’s Band. He asked me if I would like to watch the taping of a TV show from backstage and of course I said, “Yes!”
First he took me on one of their tour buses and I met band members and 3 of Loretta’s spoiled kids (as young adults at the time), then when we got backstage Loretta showed up and I was introduced to her and we had a very brief chat. It was like meeting family and she was so quiet yet very friendly and courteous to me. I later told my friend that she reminded me of my Mother (even though Mom did not sing). And if someone reminds me of my Mom, that is a compliment! 
I have met several other “famous” people in my lifetime, but this brief encounter was one of the more special ones because she reminded me of my mother!
I had no camera with me at the time (before cellphones), so no photos of the encounter, but several years later in 2007 I visited Hurricane Mills where she and her family lived, so here’s three photos from Hurricane Mills, Tennessee:
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More photos of Hurricane Mills in that trip GALLERY.
¡Pura Vida!
And for anyone wanting to know more about my many years in Tennessee and Nashville specifically, I of course have photo galleries of both My Nashville Years and of my Tennessee Travels (nature travel of course!)
Charlie! I loved your story about Loretta Lynn. My daughgter lived in Germantown for several years and loved it! It was a charming town.
xoxo
Thanks Gordona. Was your daughter in the town of Germantown, a suburb of Memphis, or the Germantown neighborhood of Nashville? Two different worlds and each with something to like. I lived in the latter two times.
She was in Germantown by Nashville. Really neat area.
Xo
Yes – a neat historic neighborhood with German immigrant roots and African-American. I bought a townhouse there that was to be my retirement home, living there 1998-99 before I got “downsized” out of LifeWay and moved to The Gambia, West Africa for a three years job, selling that house I loved. See it in my gallery: https://charliedoggett.smugmug.com/Pre-Costa-Rica-Nashville-Photos/Germantown-Neighborhood
Then when I returned at the end of 2002 I bought a Rowhouse that was created as part of an affordable living condominium where I lived for 10 years across the street from Germantown in Hope Gardens neighborhood which was also across the street from Bicentennial Capital Mall State Park. I also really loved that house within walking and biking distance of downtown Nashville and connectors to all of the wonderful Nashville Greenways. See that house gallery at: https://charliedoggett.smugmug.com/Pre-Costa-Rica-Nashville-Photos/Hope-Gardens-North-Nashville
So your daughter experienced one of the communities that was one of my favorite ever! I still keep up with a next door neighbor in the rowhouses through Facebook. Those were my “biking the greenways” years along with camping and backpacking in TN State Parks, having visited all 50!
Only Costa Rica is better! 
Charlie you are certainly an adventurer!
Loved your Nashville albums!
Thank you!!!
xo
Thanks Gordona! And yes I am sort of an adventurer (though the kind who avoids danger!)
Glad you liked my Nashville Albums! I had fun while there but glad to be here now. There are lots of things to like about Nashville.