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Tour Butcher Holler: Loretta Lynn’s Home Place

See the place where the “coal miner’s daughter” was born, loretta lynn’s butcher hollow.

Tour the cabin that Loretta Lynn and her famous sister Crystal Gayle grew up in. Stand on the porch where they sang songs and honed their skills before becoming some of Country Music’s greatest stars. Inside the cabin you will find authentic Loretta Lynn memorabilia, her mother’s original washboard, porch swing, bed and more.

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From humble beginnings to  country music stardom ..

Tucked into the hills of Eastern Kentucky is Country Music’s hallowed ground, Butcher Holler, the home place of Loretta Lynn. Come and see Loretta Lynn’s humble beginnings, the place that shaped her into the Coal Miner’s Daughter and the sensation that captured America’s heart. A tour of Loretta Lynn’s Butcher Holler is just a short drive North of Pikeville, Kentucky.

Tours are $5/person. No reservation is required. Tour Hours: 10 a.m. – 4 p.m., every day. Hours may change without notice due to weather.

Tours are only available during the warm months of the year. Tours end in late November and resume in April. Contact the tour operators at: (606) 789-3397.

MoonPie, RC Cola, and  Coal Mining Heritage at Webb’s General Store .

After your tour of the cabin, you will visit Webb’s General Store, formerly an old coal mining camp store. Purchase MoonPies, RC Cola, sandwiches, keepsakes such as autograph photos, t-shirts and other collectables. Learn about coal scrip, and take a peek into the life of the Appalachian coal miner of yesteryear. Pike County Tourism CVB can help you make your tour of Butcher Holler a special one.

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Know Before You Go: Visiting Loretta Lynn’s Tennessee Ranch

April 5, 2021 by Jennifer Havener 0 Comments

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My mother has been a huge fan of Loretta Lynn for as long as I can remember. I grew up listening to Ms. Lynn’s music on the turntable stereo system. A few years ago I came up with the idea of visiting Loretta Lynn’s Tennessee Ranch. Life got in the way and it never happened. 

For my mother’s milestone birthday this year, I’m determined to make the road trip a reality. And I thought I’d write about the planning stage for other country music fans interested in making the trip to the Ranch. 

Where is Loretta Lynn’s Ranch?

Graceland and Dollywood are two of the most-talked-about tourist destinations for country music fans. But Tennessee is also home to the grand home that tells Loretta Lynn’s “rags-to-riches” story. 

Loretta Lynn’s Ranch is located in Hurricane Mills, Tennessee. Wide Open Country puts that about an hour from Nashville. Loretta Lynn once lived in the plantation home, but now she lives in another house she built on the property. 

The country music icon famously grew up as a “Coal Miner’s Daughter” in Butcher Hollow, Kentucky. 

Camping Options Available During Certain Months

I love a good road trip. Given the ongoing pandemic, driving is a more comfortable option than flying. It’s a fourteen-hour drive from where I live in Upstate New York. That’s at least two days on the road with an overnight stay at a cheap hotel along the route. 

When looking for accommodations while in Hurricane Mills, Tennessee, I discovered that there are camping options on the Ranch. The three campgrounds are Stagecoach Hill, Boone Hill, and Lower Campground.

However, the Boone Hill and Lower Campgrounds are closed from November until April. 

The campgrounds have RV hookups, as well as tent camping. 

There are also cabins available to rent. My tentative plan is to stay in the cabins for two nights. Depending on which cabin, it will cost between $105 and $205 per night. The $205 option is a bunkhouse that sleeps eight. 

The Ranch has many events throughout the summer, so reserving the cabin early is a must. 

Things to See at Loretta Lynn’s Ranch 

One reason for staying in the cabins or in the area for multiple nights is because there is SO MUCH to see on the Ranch. 

First and foremost is a tour of the home itself. Fans can get glimpses of Loretta Lynn’s long career in the Coal Miner’s Daughter museum, as well as the collection of gifts from fans in the Doll museum. 

Other must-sees on the property include Loretta’s Frontier Homestead, Grist Mill Museum, Native American, and Artifacts Museum. Loretta Lynn grew up almost 400 miles away, but fans won’t have to go far to see her childhood home. 

The Ranch boasts a real-life replica of the Butcher Hollow cabin. 

Many of the attractions are closed on Mondays and Tuesdays, so plan accordingly. 

There are also multiple gift shops on site. 

One thing you might be on the lookout for is ghosts. The Ranch is rumored to be haunted. Even Loretta Lynn herself has experienced strange happenings in the home. Check out this Travel Channel documentary on YouTube about the haunted house. 

Nearby Restaurant Offers Home-Cooked Meals

You’re Cookin’ It Country is the title of Loretta Lynn’s cookbook. A restaurant down the road from the Ranch is inspired by Loretta Lynn’s cooking. Loretta Lynn’s Country Kitchen isn’t owned by the iconic singer. But it has a down-home feel and taste. Check out the menu. 

Taking my mom on a road trip to Loretta Lynn’s Ranch is still in the early planning stages. Have you been to the popular tourist attraction? Share your tips and tricks for visiting Loretta Lynn’s Ranch in the comments below. 

Check back with Country Music Alley for a follow-up review after the summer road trip. 

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Loretta Lynn's Ranch, Campground and Mansion

Spend a Weekend at Loretta Lynn’s Ranch

If you are a fan of Loretta Lynn or classic country music, then there is no doubt that you will LOVE a trip to Loretta Lynn’s Ranch. But if you aren’t a fan, don’t mark this off your list. There is a lot to do at this family fun attraction. Take a look at the offerings before you decide.

Things to Do at the Ranch

Located in Hurricane Mills, TN, Loretta Lynn’s Ranch is about an hour west of Nashville.The ranch covers LOTS of territory and has many special events throughout the year.

Camping and Cabins

There is a campground located on the ranch that is open all year round. If you aren’t into the idea of ‘roughing it’, there are also cabins available to rent .

We stayed in one of the cabins during our trip. They are small but they have two queen beds, a nice bathroom and a small fridge and microwave. They also feature a nice deck on the back.

Of course you can always visit the ranch just for the day and pick and choose which activities will fit into your time frame.

The Western Town

The Western Town area is where you will find the majority of the tours available. You will need to drive to this area even if you are staying on the property. There is plenty of parking.  

Start in the shop right out front to purchase your tour. There are two different tours available.  Tour #1 includes the plantation home and museum. Tour #2 includes the plantation home, museum, coal mine, and the Butcher Holler home. I would suggest you go with #2.  

It’s not much more expensive and, to me, going from the small Butcher Holler house to the large plantation home really gives you a glimpse into the life that Loretta Lynn has lived.

Touring the Museums

We began our tour in the main museum. No photography is allowed in this museum.  As you enter there is a large room to the left. This space is filled with scenes from Loretta’s life.

There are several cars on display and you can go on her old tour bus. Each of these displays is accompanied by a large sign handwritten by Loretta with her description of what you are seeing.

On the other side of the museum is a large collection of memorabilia. There are tons of dresses and costumes worn by Loretta and her sister, Crystal Gayle. There is also a huge collection of family photos.

You will also be able to see a display of the wedding gowns worn by many of her children and grandchildren. And there are many promotional items from their varied careers in country music .

As you continue through the museum, you will see many displays of awards and gold records. The number of trophies and awards is massive.

The museum also has a complete replica exhibit of the Butcher Holler school room.  

If you happen to be a fan of Conway Twitty (and if you aren’t, you should be) the next part of the museum will thrill you. There is an entire room dedicated to an exhibit of Loretta’s late duet partner.

This exhibit also features a huge video screen that plays classic footage of Loretta and Conway together. This is a great place to rest for a while. There are several benches in front of the video screen.

Don’t Miss the Gift Shops!

At the end of your tour of the museum, you will get to visit the first of many gift shops at the Loretta Lynn Ranch. These gift shops are all unique and, to be honest, I’ve never experienced anything quite like them before.

Many of the shops feature items that have been autographed by Loretta herself. The clerks told us that she comes in often and picks up her pen and just starts signing the merchandise.

That brings to mind another important thing to mention about the ranch. The employees at the ranch are utterly devoted to Loretta. They speak of her as if she is their family. It’s really cute.  🙂

The Official Guided Tour

The official tour begins on the steps of the Grist Mill.  The tour group assembles here and then walks across the street to the replica of the Butcher Holler home.  

There is a large set of steps in order to access the home so keep that in mind.  The home is very small and has only four rooms.  It’s very hard to imagine the large Lynn family all living in this home but they did.  

The tour won’t take very long and once you are done the next stop is the coal mine.

The coal mine is a re-creation of the mine where Loretta’s father worked. There are lots of authentic mining tools on display here also. It is quite small so keep that in mind if you have issues being in tight spaces.

After the coal mine, you will board a tour bus to travel to the plantation house. It’s a quick trip. The guide will tell you lots of stories about the house. There are even ghost stories.

No photography is allowed inside the house.  You will get to tour the main level of the home. You will even get to see the kitchen where Loretta filmed those famous Crisco commercials!

Once the plantation house tour is over, the tour bus will take you back to the grist mill. This is a really beautiful natural area. Carve out some time to just sit and relax here while you take in the beautiful scenery.

In this same area, you will find the Fan and Doll Museum . Basically Loretta’s fans love to make and send her stuff…especially dolls. She had so many that she collected them all into this large room. Take your time touring this deal. You won’t believe all the stuff!

There are additional gift shops located throughout this area. There is also a playground, a snack bar, public restrooms and a large picnic area.

During the summer months you can canoe, kayak or tube. There is also a large swimming pool on the ranch. Trail rides on horseback , hiking and 4 wheeling are some of the other outdoor fun options available.

Consider a trip to the Loretta Lynn Ranch. There are so many things to do and see. And if you aren’t a fan before your trip, chances are good you might be by the time it’s over!

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Hours: Tours available on the hour 9AM – 4PM  Daily

Cost:  $20 -25 for tours Kids age 10 and under are free

Cost for camping, cabins and other activities vary.  See website for details.

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May God Always Bless You, Loretta. Thank you for so many musical and film memories. My best friend from High School and I hope to visit “The Ranch” this summer. It’s on my bucket list. I’m 59 and she’s 56. We were cheerleaders together, but most of the all, family. God Bless You Always. Terry Yes, I’m female. My parents wanted a boy. Lol

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Loretta Lynn's Ranch

No visit to Humphreys County, Tennessee, can be considered truly complete without a stop at Loretta Lynn’s Ranch, a 3,000-acre ranch, campground, event venue, and tourist destination in Hurricane Mills. Located just 65 miles west of Nashville, the historic community of Hurricane Mills has been home to Loretta Lynn and her family since the late 1960s. In fact, Loretta owns all of the historic district, with the exception of the public cemetery. Hurricane Mills has long been a popular outdoor recreation site, but Loretta Lynn’s Ranch, officially founded in 1974, has become one of the most popular tourist destinations in Tennessee.

At Loretta Lynn’s Ranch and Family Campground, you’ll find a multitude of activities for the family, as well as tours, shops, museums, and special events sure to please visitors from all generations. You don’t have to be a diehard Loretta fan to enjoy the ranch, but we’re willing to bet you will be after your visit! Snag a spot for RV camping or tent camping or rent a cabin that can sleep four to eight people. Tour museums that house collections of Loretta Lynn memorabilia, Native American artifacts, and relics and replicas that showcase life and hard work during a simpler time. Attend a special event like the Tennessee Motorcycles & Music Revival or the Annual Halloween Championship Chuckwagon Races. No matter what tickles your fancy, you’re sure to find it at Loretta Lynn’s Ranch. Read on for more specific information about the ranch and everything it has to offer.

Lodging and Camping

Stagecoach Hill:  Featuring 55 full-service, 50-amp pull through spots, four A-frame log cabins, seven cozy cabins, and a large bunkhouse for bigger families, Stagecoach Hill is a beautiful campground fit for any family. With a fire pit, camp store, horseshoes, cornhole, live music, games during peak season, and beautiful hiking trails, this is the perfect spot for your trip to the ranch.

Boone Hill:  If you want easy access to the main highway and seclusion from the rest of the ranch’s attractions, try staying in the Boone Hill section. Six cabins sit in a horseshoe cul-de-sac with a gazebo and charcoal grills in the middle. Sounds like a great way to get away from it all and concentrate on family time! When you’re not grilling out or hanging in the cabin, try the walking trails behind the cabins that lead down to the lower campground.

Lower Campground:  The lower campground is the place to be if you want to be smack-dab in the middle of all the fun! Here you’ll find 30-amp water/electric camping spots for hooking up your camper or RV. There’s tons of fun to be had at the lower campground, including an in-ground pool, a playground, a bath house, a 10,000-square-foot pavilion, and Hurricane Creek, where you can rent tubes and kayaks and play to your heart’s content. 

Please note that Loretta Lynn’s Ranch is pet-friendly with a pet fee and a signed waiver. Pets must be leashed at all times. 

The ranch also hosts concerts, weddings, and festivals and features recreational activities like horseback riding, canoe and kayak rentals, and hiking on over one hundred miles of beautiful rural trails. Other activities available at the ranch include the creek, pool, tubing, fishing, trail rides, playgrounds, volleyball, horseshoes, cornhole, game room, campfire shows, cookouts, picnics, biking, camping, and special and seasonal events. Additional fees may apply for some activities and equipment rentals.

chuck wagon races, motocross races, festivals, a spring fling, and more. Check the website or  social media  to view the events calendar, or call (931) 296-7700.

There is certainly no shortage of things to do, see, and learn at Loretta Lynn’s Ranch. No matter what tickles your fancy—touring a museum, having fun in the water, playing outdoor games, picnicking, fishing, hiking, or biking—there’s something fun for everyone. Bring the young’uns, the elders, and the in-betweeners, and get ready for some good, old-fashioned family fun that you’ll all be sure to remember for years to come.

Itinerary Points of Interest

Stagecoach Hill

Featuring 55 full-service, 50-amp pull through spots, four A-frame log cabins, seven cozy cabins, and a large bunkhouse for bigger families, Stagecoach Hill is fit for any family. With a fire pit, camp store, horseshoes, cornhole, live music, games during peak season, and hiking trails, this is the perfect spot for your extended trip to the ranch.

If you want easy access to the main highway and seclusion from the rest of the ranch’s attractions, try staying in the Boone Hill section. Six cabins sit in a horseshoe cul-de-sac with a gazebo and charcoal grills in the middle.

Lower Campground

The lower campground is you’ll find 30-amp water/electric camping spots for hooking up your camper or RV, an in-ground pool, a playground, a bath house, a 10,000-square-foot pavilion, and Hurricane Creek, where you can rent tubes and kayaks and play to your heart’s content.

Coal Miner’s Daughter Museum

This 18,000 square foot museum is dedicated to Loretta Lynn’s fans and filled with memorabilia, awards, and mementos from her famous friends.

Doll Museum

The Doll Museum is filled with dolls and gifts that have been sent to Loretta Lynn from her fans throughout her career.

Loretta’s Frontier Homestead

This museum features original, furnished log cabins with more than four hundred artifacts like tools, saws, saddles, cookware, utensils, crocks, churns, clothing, horse-drawn equipment, and wagons.

Grist Mill Museum

Here, you’ll see the original generator and control panel used to power the Mill and Loretta’s Historic Home as well as the equipment used in the production of cornmeal in the late 1800s.

Native American Artifact Museum

This museum on Loretta Lynn’s Ranch is an homage to her proud Cherokee heritage.

Western Town

Overlooking Hurricane Creek and a scenic waterfall at the Grist Mill, Western Town is where you’ll find museums, gift shops, and guided tours. It is also home to the Butcher Holler Home Replica, Simulated Coal Mine #5, Western Store, Mill Shop, and Loretta’s Shop.

Grist Mill Gift Shop 

At the heart of Hurricane Mills, the Grist Mill Gift Shop offers country-themed selections like jams, jellies, sauces, locally made and sourced crafts, and Kentucky Coal souvenirs.

Loretta’s Shop 

This shop features Loretta Lynn souvenirs including replica guitars, t-shirts, “Coal Miner’s Daughter” glassware, and more.

Western Store

This is the main gift shop for The Ranch and where you will find hats, boots, shirts, accessories, kids clothing, and toys. This is also where you’ll purchase tickets for guided tours.

Located on Stagecoach Hill, The Camp Store is where you’ll find your morning coffee or cappuccino, soft drinks, beer, ice, firewood, and any other convenience store items you might need.

Lady Loretta Boutique

This boutique offers personalized Loretta Lynn items like pictures, books, jewelry, and additional memorabilia.

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If you've got about five minutes, let's take a trip back in time to Butcher Hollar, Kentucky, near the little town of Van Lear, and visit the childhood home of Loretta Lynn. A couple of Yankee friends of mine with their camera rolling made the short drive out of my Johnson County home town of Paintsville, a few miles down to Hagar Hill, through West Van Lear and Van Lear, and along the beautiful Miller's Creek Drive (an awesome drive through the Appalachian foothills) to Butcher Hollar.

If you saw the movie "Coal Miner's Daughter" or heard the song by Loretta Lynn, you already know that's where Loretta, Crystal Gayle and all the rest of the Webb clan spent their childhood.

Over the years most of Loretta's family made their way out of Butcher Hollar, like so many other folks in that area do. However, one fellow that stayed was Loretta's younger brother Herman Webb. For many years he ran the old coal camp company store down at the mouth of Butcher Hollar; and for $5.00 he would meet you a short distance up the hollar and give you a guided tour of the old original country home where he and Loretta grew up. Herman was 83 when he died a couple of years ago; but let's go back to when he was still giving tours. Herman was such a laid back fellow, it's hard to believe he had such world famous siblings.

The four minute video starts with the turn off on Miller Creek Road...

COVID 19 has kept the family from giving tours but when the pandemic is over, you may want to take a drive to Johnson County and visit Van Lear and Butcher Hollar. Except for strip mines, not too much coal comes out of the Van Lear coal camp anymore. But you can still visit the old company store and grab a sandwich, a moon pie and RC. Someone will be available to take you up to the family home and show you around.

If you saw the 1980  Emmy award winning movie "Coal Miner's Daughter" you saw scenes portrayed in the house but those scenes were not filmed in Butcher Hollar. If you watched the video above, you will see why. The road up Miller's Creek to the house is very narrow making it difficult to get the trucks carrying movie equipment to the Webb home. The movie producers also wanted to cut a road up the hill that the house is located on so their cameras and other equipment could be moved close. The Webb family didn't like that idea so all of the scenes involving Loretta's home were filmed at a replica house the movie company constructed near Whitesburg. That replica of Lynn’s Butcher Hollow homeplace, built at Bottom Fork, has since been burned by arsonists. Except for a Van Lear train scene, the rest of the film was made in the Whitesburg-Wise Virginia area.

The admission to Loretta's homeplace is still just $5.00 and you can take all the photos you want.

You might also want to visit the wonderful coal museum in Van Lear. It's well worth your time.

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1 VIRGINIA / PIKEVILLE

Our Journey begins by traveling through rural Southwest Virginia on our way to Pikeville, Kentucky for the next 2 nights. Once we arrive in Pikeville, we will visit the Pikeville Cut – Through Project which is the second largest earth removal project in the Nation. We will check into our hotel and enjoy a catered Dinner. After dinner we will walk down to Pikeville’s “Main Street Live” where we will enjoy live music.

2 PAINTSVILLE / BUTCHER HOLLER

This morning we will depart the hotel and head toward Paintsville, Kentucky where we will visit the US 23 Country Music Museum, Webb’s General Store and Loretta Lynn’s homeplace, “Butcher Holler”! This afternoon you will have time at Pikeville’s Farmers Market where you can enjoy live music, reenactors, local arts & crafts, meet actual dependants from both the Hatfield & McCoy families and a Pig Roast! We will visit the Big Sandy Heritage Museum which has tons of Hatfield & McCoy Artifacts. Tonight we will take part in the Annual Hatfield & McCoy Reunion Dinner.

3 FEUD SITES / HOMEWARD BOUND

Today we will visit some the Historic Hatfield & McCoy Feud Sites. These will include the Hog trail site where reenactors will be doing a presentation as well as the McCoy Well site where descendants from both families will be conducting a worship service. We will enjoy lunch at the South Williamson Steak House before traveling home with all the knowledge we have learned of the Feud and the wonderful memories we have of beautiful Pikeville, Kentucky.

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Loretta Lynn recently passed away at the age of 90. She will forever be remembered for her iconic and charged songs, like “Fist City”, “You Ain’t Woman Enough (To Take My Man)”, and “Don’t Come Home a’ Drinkin’ (With Lovin’ on Your Mind)”. But, one of her most famous songs, which was also a book and a movie, was “Coal Miner’s Daughter”. This song tells of her humble upbringing in a cabin during the Great Depression, with her father’s meager wages from coal mining barely seeing the family through.

Instead of being paid an hourly wage or a yearly salary, he was only paid 25 cents for each ton of coal he shoveled by hand. Like other miners in the area he was paid in scrip instead of money, which could only be used to buy things from stores the coal company owned and operated. But, she said they had lots of love to go around and that her mother was understanding and didn’t complain about the hardships they went through as a family.

The house where she grew up in Butcher Hollow near Van Lear, Kentucky is still standing and the inside has been made into a museum called the Loretta Lynn Homeplace that you can wander through.

She was born in 1932 to Clara (“Clary”) and Theodore (“Ted”) Webb. The house where the family settled is built into a hill on a peaceful plot of land that’s both wooded and secluded. The only way up to the house in those days was a footpath as no one in the immediate area even had an automobile. In the book Coal Miner’s Daughter Lynn wrote that their first home had been very small and shoddy. She wrote that when the new home “had four rooms instead of one…we really thought we’d arrived.”

Some of the tours are given by one of Loretta Lynn’s nieces which means that there’s lot of family lore and little details sprinkled throughout the tour.

When Lynn used to come back to visit the cabin she would often sit and look out over the countryside from the front porch swing.

Inside the house much of the furniture pieces are ones that Lynn and her siblings grew up using. The big radio is where they listened to particular radio programs. But, they had to be selective since it ran on battery power as the area didn’t yet have electricity. So, they only listened to their very favorite shows.

The bed is covered in mementos and artifacts, including a family guitar that many of the 8 Webb children learned to play on. There are two beds on display downstairs and two bedrooms in the tiny upstairs area, the latter of which are not on display to the public.

In the kitchen are some moonshining items on display. There’s also a metal lunch bucket and miner’s hat with light very much like the ones Ted Webb would have taken with him to work each day. The original hat he wore is in the collection at the Loretta Lynn Ranch museum in Hurricane Mills, Tennessee.

Near the kitchen in this small house the family’s original pie safe and Hoosier cabinet still stand. It wasn’t until around the time that Lynn was herself married in the late 1940s that the holler got electricity and life became a little easier for the family.

You can see much more of the house, including some of the family’s photos, in the video tour below from the YouTube channel, Yankee in the South.

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Loretta Lynn's Granddaughter Emmy Russell Says 'Out of Control' Eating Disorder Inspired Her Song 'Skinny' (Exclusive)

"I kind of grew up in the spotlight and so I was always very image-conscious," says Emmy Russell, who made Top 24 of this season's 'American Idol'

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Emmy Russell , granddaughter of the late country music legend Loretta Lynn, auditioned for this season of American Idol with a deeply personal original song called "Skinny" — and now she's made the Top 24.

The rising star opened up to PEOPLE about her struggle with disordered eating and how she was inspired to take that difficult experience and transform it into something beautiful with "Skinny."

While Russell's eating disorder began in high school, she was able to get it under control until several years later. It was on a mission trip to Brazil when she was 22 that Russell noticed something was going wrong again with her health.

"All of a sudden I started getting a little bit sick and I was like, 'Why am I not keeping any of my food down?' And I think a part of it was the eating disorder in high school, but then the damage that happens to your body and it just happened again," Russell, now 25, tells PEOPLE. "Then I started seeing results from me getting sick, and then it just spun out of control."

"I felt a lot of shame. I was like, 'I'm serving God. I'm in Brazil. Why is this coming back?'"

She realized she needed to return home to Nashville and, with the help of her mom, seek recovery.

"I struggled a lot with physical beauty image pressures and social media. I kind of grew up in the spotlight and so I was always very image-conscious," Russell recalls.

But she realized she was not alone. "When I saw 80 or 70 million people struggle with eating, I was like, 'What? I'm not the only one. I need to sing about it.'"

With "Skinny," Russell learned that "you can only really succeed when you're truly yourself." The song helped her turn pain into beauty,

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"I showed up, no makeup, my red hair, my natural color. And just got on the piano and I was like, 'Oh, Emmy works. My true self is OK. People relate to that,'" she says.

She adds, "When I wrote 'Skinny,' I felt a weight of responsibility [and thought], 'I don't need to go back to this. I know it's bad for me.' And so the more that I sing it, it's almost like the more that I'm delivering myself and I'm like, 'Oh, OK. Now I got that feeling out. Now I am above it.' And so finding a creative outlet for all your pain and beauty. Beauty from ashes, that's music for me. It's like the ashes are the pain and I make something out of it."

Russell wrote the song when she was in recovery and decided to release it on Song House. It was there that the song went viral and she was contacted by someone who worked in casting for American Idol .

"I was scared a lot, so I think American Idol pushed me to be like, 'Oh, I can do this and people actually like me and they relate to my story,'" she says.

For anyone going through something similar, Russell says the best thing to do is "take a break for a second and talk about it." She also recommends "unplugging and unwinding" from your phone.

"I feel like talking about it is the best thing, tell your family, talk to a therapist. I feel like just talking about it is the first step," she says. "And realize that your beauty is deeper than skin. That's kind of my mantra is beauty's deeper than skin. It's who you are inside. What are you passionate about? Who are you? Who are you? You're not just this. This just carries your human experience."

If you or someone you know is struggling with an eating disorder, please go to  NationalEatingDisorders.org .

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Tour Loretta Lynn’s Childhood Home

It was rustic to say the least.

Loretta Lynn recently passed away at the age of 90. She will forever be remembered for her iconic and charged songs, like “Fist City”, “You Ain’t Woman Enough (To Take My Man)”, and “Don’t Come Home a’ Drinkin’ (With Lovin’ on Your Mind)”. But, one of her most famous songs, which was also a book and a movie, was “Coal Miner’s Daughter”. This song tells of her humble upbringing in a cabin during the Great Depression, with her father’s meager wages from coal mining barely seeing the family through.

Instead of being paid an hourly wage or a yearly salary, he was only paid 25 cents for each ton of coal he shoveled by hand. Like other miners in the area he was paid in scrip instead of money, which could only be used to buy things from stores the coal company owned and operated. But, she said they had lots of love to go around and that her mother was understanding and didn’t complain about the hardships they went through as a family.

The house where she grew up in Butcher Hollow near Van Lear, Kentucky is still standing and the inside has been made into a museum called the Loretta Lynn Homeplace that you can wander through.

She was born in 1932 to Clara (“Clary”) and Theodore (“Ted”) Webb. The house where the family settled is built into a hill on a peaceful plot of land that’s both wooded and secluded. The only way up to the house in those days was a footpath as no one in the immediate area even had an automobile. In the book Coal Miner’s Daughter Lynn wrote that their first home had been very small and shoddy. She wrote that when the new home “had four rooms instead of one…we really thought we’d arrived.”

Some of the tours are given by one of Loretta Lynn’s nieces which means that there’s lot of family lore and little details sprinkled throughout the tour.

When Lynn used to come back to visit the cabin she would often sit and look out over the countryside from the front porch swing.

Inside the house much of the furniture pieces are ones that Lynn and her siblings grew up using. The big radio is where they listened to particular radio programs. But, they had to be selective since it ran on battery power as the area didn’t yet have electricity. So, they only listened to their very favorite shows.

The bed is covered in mementos and artifacts, including a family guitar that many of the 8 Webb children learned to play on. There are two beds on display downstairs and two bedrooms in the tiny upstairs area, the latter of which are not on display to the public.

In the kitchen are some moonshining items on display. There’s also a metal lunch bucket and miner’s hat with light very much like the ones Ted Webb would have taken with him to work each day. The original hat he wore is in the collection at the Loretta Lynn Ranch museum in Hurricane Mills, Tennessee.

Near the kitchen in this small house the family’s original pie safe and Hoosier cabinet still stand. It wasn’t until around the time that Lynn was herself married in the late 1940s that the holler got electricity and life became a little easier for the family.

You can see much more of the house, including some of the family’s photos, in the video tour below from the YouTube channel, Yankee in the South.

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The Moscow Metro Tour is included in most guided tours’ itineraries. Opened in 1935, under Stalin’s regime, the metro was not only meant to solve transport problems, but also was hailed as “a people’s palace”. Every station you will see during your Moscow metro tour looks like a palace room. There are bright paintings, mosaics, stained glass, bronze statues… Our Moscow metro tour includes the most impressive stations best architects and designers worked at - Ploshchad Revolutsii, Mayakovskaya, Komsomolskaya, Kievskaya, Novoslobodskaya and some others.

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The guide will not only help you navigate the metro, but will also provide you with fascinating background tales for the images you see and a history of each station.

And there some stories to be told during the Moscow metro tour! The deepest station - Park Pobedy - is 84 metres under the ground with the world longest escalator of 140 meters. Parts of the so-called Metro-2, a secret strategic system of underground tunnels, was used for its construction.

During the Second World War the metro itself became a strategic asset: it was turned into the city's biggest bomb-shelter and one of the stations even became a library. 217 children were born here in 1941-1942! The metro is the most effective means of transport in the capital.

There are almost 200 stations 196 at the moment and trains run every 90 seconds! The guide of your Moscow metro tour can explain to you how to buy tickets and find your way if you plan to get around by yourself.

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Moscow metro private tours.

• 2-hour tour $87:  10 Must-See Moscow Metro stations with hotel pick-up and drop-off
• 3-hour tour $137:  20 Must-See Moscow Metro stations with Russian lunch in beautifully-decorated Metro Diner + hotel pick-up and drop off. 
• Metro pass is included in the price of both tours.

Highlight of Metro Tour

• Visit 10 must-see stations of Moscow metro on 2-hr tour and 20 Metro stations on 3-hr tour, including grand Komsomolskaya station with its distinctive Baroque décor, aristocratic Mayakovskaya station with Soviet mosaics, legendary Revolution Square station with 72 bronze sculptures and more!
• Explore Museum of Moscow Metro and learn a ton of technical and historical facts;
• Listen to the secrets about the Metro-2, a secret line supposedly used by the government and KGB;
• Experience a selection of most striking features of Moscow Metro hidden from most tourists and even locals;
• Discover the underground treasure of Russian Soviet past – from mosaics to bronzes, paintings, marble arches, stained glass and even paleontological elements;
• Learn fun stories and myths about Coffee Ring, Zodiac signs of Moscow Metro and more;
• Admire Soviet-era architecture of pre- and post- World War II perious;
• Enjoy panoramic views of Sparrow Hills from Luzhniki Metro Bridge – MetroMost, the only station of Moscow Metro located over water and the highest station above ground level;
• If lucky, catch a unique «Aquarelle Train» – a wheeled picture gallery, brightly painted with images of peony, chrysanthemums, daisies, sunflowers and each car unit is unique;
• Become an expert at navigating the legendary Moscow Metro system;
• Have fun time with a very friendly local;
• + Atmospheric Metro lunch in Moscow’s the only Metro Diner (included in a 3-hr tour)

Hotel Pick-up

Metro stations:.

Komsomolskaya

Novoslobodskaya

Prospekt Mira

Belorusskaya

Mayakovskaya

Novokuznetskaya

Revolution Square

Sparrow Hills

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Victory Park

Slavic Boulevard

Vystavochnaya

Dostoevskaya

Elektrozavodskaya

Partizanskaya

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• Drop-off  at your hotel, Novodevichy Convent, Sparrow Hills or any place you wish
• + Russian lunch  in Metro Diner with artistic metro-style interior for 3-hour tour

Fun facts from our Moscow Metro Tours:

From the very first days of its existence, the Moscow Metro was the object of civil defense, used as a bomb shelter, and designed as a defense for a possible attack on the Soviet Union.

At a depth of 50 to 120 meters lies the second, the coded system of Metro-2 of Moscow subway, which is equipped with everything you need, from food storage to the nuclear button.

According to some sources, the total length of Metro-2 reaches over 150 kilometers.

The Museum was opened on Sportivnaya metro station on November 6, 1967. It features the most interesting models of trains and stations.

Coffee Ring

The first scheme of Moscow Metro looked like a bunch of separate lines. Listen to a myth about Joseph Stalin and the main brown line of Moscow Metro.

Zodiac Metro

According to some astrologers, each of the 12 stops of the Moscow Ring Line corresponds to a particular sign of the zodiac and divides the city into astrological sector.

Astrologers believe that being in a particular zadiac sector of Moscow for a long time, you attract certain energy and events into your life.

Paleontological finds 

Red marble walls of some of the Metro stations hide in themselves petrified inhabitants of ancient seas. Try and find some!

• Every day each car in  Moscow metro passes  more than 600 km, which is the distance from Moscow to St. Petersburg.
• Moscow subway system is the  5th in the intensity  of use (after the subways of Beijing, Tokyo, Seoul and Shanghai).
• The interval in the movement of trains in rush hour is  90 seconds .

What you get:

• + A friend in Moscow.
• + Private & customized Moscow tour.
• + An exciting pastime, not just boring history lessons.
• + An authentic experience of local life.
• + Flexibility during the walking tour: changes can be made at any time to suit individual preferences.
• + Amazing deals for breakfast, lunch, and dinner in the very best cafes & restaurants. Discounts on weekdays (Mon-Fri).
• + A photo session amongst spectacular Moscow scenery that can be treasured for a lifetime.
• + Good value for souvenirs, taxis, and hotels.
• + Expert advice on what to do, where to go, and how to make the most of your time in Moscow.

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Moscow metro tour: architectural styles of the subway.

Duration: 2 hours

Categories: Culture & History, Sightseeing

This metro tour of Russia’s capital and most populous city, Moscow, is your chance to get a unique insight into the beautiful and impressive architecture of the city's underground stations. Admire their marble walls and high ceilings representing Stalin's desire for glory after World War 2, and see first-hand how the interiors change with the rise of new political eras. Your guide will lead you through the complex network, which is one of the most heavily used rapid transit systems worldwide, with over two billion travelers in 2011.

Opened in 1935, Moscow’s underground system, now 190 miles (305 km) long with 185 stations, is today one the largest and most heavily used rapid transit systems in the world. On this Moscow metro tour, discover the impressive architecture of Moscow’s underground stations and learn how they reflect the Soviet era.

Getting around by metro, your local guide will take you through parts of Moscow’s infamous history. Stop at stations built during the time of the USSR (Soviet Union) that are praised as one of the most extravagant architectural projects from Stalin’s time. After World War 2, he was keen on establishing Stalinist architecture to represent his rising regime and a recognized empire. Learn how when his successor started the de-Stalinization of the former Soviet Union in 1953, the extravagancy of the architecture was toned down.

Discover how the unique character of each station reflected several different eras. While stations like Kievskaya and Slavyansky Bulvar have pompous halls and high stucco ceilings brimming with extravagant decorations, those built later, like Volzhskaya, are lightly adorned with sparse furnishings. Architect Alexey Dushkin and painter Alexander Deyneka were just two of the many artists who made these magnificent landmarks possible.

Revel in Moscow's glory days, as well as the years of scarcity, on this fascinating Moscow metro experience. Conclude your tour at one of the central stations in Moscow. If you're lucky, you may even find the secret entrance to the unconfirmed Metro-2, a parallel underground system used by the government -- a mystery which has neither been denied nor confirmed today.

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