A poignant video released after Dolly Parton’s death shows the country icon inviting fans to explore a new exhibition devoted to her extraordinary life and career.

The Life of Many Colors Museum officially opened Tuesday inside SongTeller, Parton’s Nashville hotel, which welcomed its first guests on the same day.

Parton narrowly missed the opening. She died on August 25 at age 80 following a brief, private battle with an undisclosed form of cancer.

Despite her illness, the Queen of Country recorded a message in which she said she was “so proud to invite you to my Life of Many Colors Museum, opening right here in the heart of Nashville at my SongTeller Hotel.”

She added: “This museum will be the largest exhibit of my life and career, filled with the stories, songs and memories that I’ve carried.”

Released amid a bitter dispute over Parton’s estate, the promotional video shows her enthusiastically explaining that the exhibition “includes all of the things that have helped this little girl’s dreams come true,” before adding, “I can’t wait to share it with you.”

The museum takes its name from Parton’s beloved 1971 song Coat of Many Colors, which recalls the jacket her mother made from scraps of fabric when Parton was a child.

SongTeller stands on Commerce Street in downtown Nashville, just steps from South Broadway and its famous concentration of bars, venues and live-music destinations.

Nightly rates start at $428 for a standard room with a king-sized bed. Rooms overlooking the city cost $448, while those with river views are priced at $478.

The museum occupies the hotel’s third floor and features personal treasures, including the wedding dress Parton wore when she married Carl Dean in 1966.

Dean died in March 2025 at the age of 82 from causes that were not made public, two months before the couple would have celebrated their 59th wedding anniversary.

Parton was later buried beside Dean at Woodlawn Memorial Park and Mausoleum in Nashville, laid to rest three days after her death wearing high heels.

Her bridal gown is displayed inside a case modeled on the couple’s wedding venue, Ringgold First Baptist Church in Georgia.

“Theirs is one of the great American love stories, so it’s an absolute honor to be able to share it with everybody,” Parton’s niece Rebecca Seaver told Vogue.

Rebecca, who was in charge of putting Parton’s museum together, explained that the exhibition begins with ‘an immersive walkthrough of her life,’ including her birth in a log cabin in the Great Smoky Mountains of Tennessee and her first meeting with Dean at the Wishy Washy laundromat in Nashville.

Guests will be guided through the experience by audio clips of Parton called ‘Dolly-grams,’ enabling the songstress to be ‘the conductor for the symphony.’

Rebecca shared: ‘We’re so fortunate that we were able to have that time with her to not just record those moments, but also with the archive, to be able to sit down with her and ask: “What do you want to show people?”‘

The museum also contains the dress Parton wore in the cover art for her plaintive 1973 song Jolene, in which she begs the title character: ‘Please don’t take my man.’

That dress has now been restored, Rebecca explained, sharing that ‘we’ve never shown the outfit that she wore on the cover of Jolene because it needed some love. But we’ve given it that love, and Dolly was really excited about that.’

Rebecca’s brother Bryan Seaver served as their aunt’s head of security and was entrusted by Parton to announce the news of her death on video last month.

At the heart of the scandal over her estate is the explosive falling out that Bryan had with Parton’s manager of more than two decades, Danny Nozell.

Nozell fired Bryan this month and obtained a temporary restraining order against him under Parton’s company She’s Alive LLC.

In his legal documents, Nozell claimed Seaver demanded money from him and began ‘invoking his self-proclaimed military-contractor experience, access to weapons, and capacity for violence’ in the process. 

Bryan was claimed to have called himself a ‘killer’ and to have told Nozell: ‘All I do is warfare…everyone needs to be worried about what I might do.’ 

A defiant Bryan responded by pouring scorn on the ‘spurious’ restraining order, which he dismissed as ‘simply a publicity stunt,’ in a statement to People.

‘Dolly called me her killer,’ Bryan insisted. ‘It was a joke we used around her camp. I was her “baby boy ninja” and Danny Nozell took that text out of context to somehow imagine that I was threatening him. He’s always called me The Killer.’

Before Parton’s death, an exhibition about her life had already opened at Nashville’s Country Music Hall of Fame, with items including the tape recorder she used while writing her classic songs Jolene, I Will Always Love You and The Seeker.

Her passing came after months of health woes that saw her pull out of a string of public appearances, fueling fan fears for her wellbeing. 

In an interview published just four days before her death, Parton had declared she still had ‘so many things I want to achieve’ and vowed to continue ‘working as long as I can to see everything come to life,’ via People.

She explained that she had been grappling with ‘some health issues that I just didn’t pay attention to when I was watching over Carl.’

In the days after her death, it emerged her legacy in Nashville was being further immortalized in the form of the airport being renamed after her.

Tennessee Governor Bill Lee and the Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority issued a press release saying Parton’s representatives were open to the move, via Page Six.

‘Dolly Parton’s extraordinary life is forever woven into the fabric of our state. From her rural mountain home in East Tennessee to global stages, Dolly carried the Volunteer Spirit with her,’ Lee said in his statement.

‘At a place where Tennessee welcomes the world, it is fitting that Nashville International Airport would bear the name of our state’s favorite daughter and greet travelers with the enduring legacy of Dolly’s music, generosity, faith, and kindness.’

Hurricane Polo is moving toward the United States after striking Mexico’s Pacific coast with powerful winds, torrential rain and dangerous surf. Officials are warning that the storm could bring life-threatening flash flooding.

Polo made landfall late Monday along the western coast of Baja California Sur, just south of the small community of Las Barrancas, the National Hurricane Center said.

The hurricane was likely a Category 2 storm when it reached the coast, with maximum sustained winds estimated at 105 to 110 mph.

By early Tuesday, Polo had weakened as it moved over land but continued to generate hurricane-force conditions. Sustained winds were measured at 75 mph, with stronger gusts, according to the NHC.

The storm has already lashed Mexico’s Pacific coastline with intense rain, destructive surf and powerful winds, flooding streets and damaging property.

Forecasters now say Polo’s moisture could fuel life-threatening flash floods and mudslides, especially in mountainous terrain.

As Polo tracks across Mexico, as much as “34 trillion gallons of rainfall headed toward the Southwest and Central U.S,” could follow, Crisis Response International said in a social media post.

The National Weather Service issued a bulletin for parts of western Texas and New Mexico, warning of “potentially life-threatening flash flooding” through early Wednesday.

Flooding has already been reported in parts of New Mexico, where the Rio Grande is rising beyond its banks.

The flood threat is expected to move eastward, with officials warning of possible flash flooding from central Texas to central Oklahoma through Thursday.

“Several inches of rain are possible, with 5–6+ inches possible across parts of Texas,” one meteorologist wrote on social media.

“Repeated rounds of storms could cause rainfall to pile up quickly, leading to life-threatening flash flooding.”

Although Polo’s most severe impacts may be pulling away from Southern California, coastal areas of Los Angeles and Orange counties could still experience effects from the storm.

The National Weather Service on Tuesday canceled an earlier high-surf and coastal-flooding warning, while cautioning that hazardous ocean conditions could persist.

“The surf from Hurricane Polo has peaked and will lower rather quickly through Wednesday, but strong rip currents may linger,” the bulletin said.

“While the high tide will be lower on Wednesday compared to today, it will lower only a little and will likely still be above 7.0 feet.”

Polo may also not be the final storm to affect the Southern California coastline.

Officials said Tropical Storm Rachel is expected to generate “larger” swells than Polo along Southern California from early to mid-next week.

Rachel was nearing hurricane strength Tuesday as it moved along Mexico’s southwestern coast, with maximum sustained winds of 70 mph, according to the NHC.

“Large waves could produce life-threatening surf and rip current conditions along portions of the southwestern coast of Mexico during the next several days.”

In a rare interview, Charlie Kirk’s mother also rejected speculation that she and Erika are estranged. She said her son’s death brought them closer and that Charlie would be deeply upset by the harsh treatment his widow has received online.

“We were 100% behind her,” Kathryn Kirk told Vanity Fair for a profile of Erika. She dismissed claims that Charlie’s parents hold his widow responsible for his death or are feuding with her over his estate and the future of Turning Point USA.

“Erika and I have, through the trauma, grown closer,” Kathryn said. “We knew Charlie in a way that no one else did. We can look at each other’s eyes and we know the depth of our despair.”

According to Vanity Fair, Kathryn had avoided speaking publicly with journalists before this interview and would prefer to remain a private citizen. She said, however, that her silence helped fuel conspiracy theories about her relationship with Erika.

She pushed back on those rumors, the outlet reported, becoming emotional as she described how distressed her son would be by the online attacks directed at his wife.

Kathryn also remembered how quickly media requests began arriving after the shooting.

“A TMZ reporter called me even before I talked to my daughter. Before I was running the car,” she told Vanity Fair.

The magazine’s profile also outlined the steps Charlie and Erika had been taking to protect their family’s future as reported death threats continued to mount.

Doug DeGroote, a Turning Point board member who oversees the couple’s personal finances, said they had been preparing their will. They were scheduled to visit his office to sign the documents on the Monday after Charlie was killed.

The evening before his death, Charlie reportedly spoke with Erika and their pastor about security measures, including bulletproof glass shields and protective vests.

Erika, members of Turning Point’s board and several close associates told Vanity Fair that Charlie had made his wishes clear: If something happened to him, he wanted his wife to lead the organization.

Kathryn said Charlie deliberately kept his parents out of those discussions “because it would just go right into our fears.”

“She knew him more than anyone,” a former Turning Point employee told the outlet, explaining why Erika was chosen to take over the organization.

Erika also described the unbearable experience of watching surveillance footage of the shooting during a preliminary hearing in September.

As she watched the man on the screen, she silently pleaded, “Don’t do it. Don’t you dare do it. It’s not too late,” according to Vanity Fair’s account. She clutched Kathryn’s arm and cried out when the footage showed Robinson taking position before the fatal shot.

Erika also recalled insisting on seeing her husband’s body at the Utah hospital after a doctor advised against it.

“I looked back at him and said, ‘With all due respect, I want to see what they did to my husband. I didn’t get a kiss goodbye this morning. I just want to kiss my husband,’” she told Vanity Fair.

Hospital staff removed tubes from Charlie’s mouth, wrapped his neck and cleared away blood before she saw him, the outlet reported.

“I’ll never be able to put it into words,” Erika said. “But Charlie had a smirk. It wasn’t sad.”

A prominent Democrat has suffered a public setback over his documented ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

The University of Maine System’s board of trustees voted 9-5 Monday, with one member abstaining, to remove former US Sen. George J. Mitchell’s name from several university programs. Mitchell is a Maine Democrat.

Mitchell, now 93, represented Maine in the Senate from 1980 through 1995. He concluded his congressional career after serving for years as Senate majority leader.

Mitchell’s name appeared more than 300 times, including duplicate entries, in files released by the Department of Justice concerning Epstein, according to the Irish Times.

In emails from August 2009, Epstein identified Mitchell as an attendee at a gathering he said he planned to “fully fund.” The event was scheduled roughly a month after Epstein left prison following his guilty plea to charges that included soliciting a minor for prostitution.

Another exchange, from October 2014, showed Epstein’s former assistant, Lesley Groff, asking whether he wanted her to send a redacted individual “the number we have for George Mitchell.”

Among the University of Maine programs slated for new names are the Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions and the George J. Mitchell Peace Scholarship.

Mitchell has said he was unaware of Epstein’s sexual crimes. He has not been charged with any offense connected to Epstein, whose death in a New York City jail in 2019 was ruled a suicide.

Epstein referred to Mitchell soon after his 2009 release from a Florida prison, where he had served time for sex offenses.

On July 28 of that year, he sent a message to a redacted recipient asking that Mitchell—whose name he misspelled—be contacted by email.

“Tell them that i am free and home.. they can call the home number,” Epstein wrote.

A spokesperson for Mitchell said in February that the former senator turned down Epstein’s invitations after learning about his criminal behavior, the BBC reported.

Even years later, Epstein continued to describe Mitchell warmly. In 2018, he called the former senator a “very close friend.”

The New York Times also reported that Mitchell wrote a handwritten note for a book marking Epstein’s 50th birthday in 2003, according to The New York Times.

“The beginning of a new year is an appropriate time to count our blessings,” Mitchell wrote, according to the newspaper.

The Mitchell Center will temporarily operate under the name University of Maine Center for Sustainability Solutions, according to CentralMaine.com.

Meanwhile, the scholarship named after Mitchell will be temporarily called the University of Maine Peace Scholarship.

The university task force found that using Mitchell’s name ‘would compromise the public trust and reflect adversely upon the university and its reputation.’ However, it had not found any ‘findings of wrongdoing’ by Mitchell.

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A spokesperson for the University of Maine System told the outlet that updating institutional websites, signage and other materials may take several months.

One of the board’s student members, Matthew Webber, said that students at the university felt that Mitchell getting ‘put on a pedestal’ was ‘an injustice of what they feel is almost entirely a wrong.’

‘Almost all the students of the university are in agreement of that, so to rename, I believe, is in the best interest of us as well,’ Webber said, according to the outlet.

The chair of the board, Roger Katz, called the scenario a ‘huge tragedy’ and insisted that the university needed to ‘listen to students who said there was ‘reputational damage.’

‘Whether that’s fair or not, we could talk all day about that,’ Katz said, the outlet added.

A trustee who voted against the renaming, Donna Loring, said Mitchell was ‘exemplary as far as what he’s done internationally.’

‘I think by removing his name, that also sends a message,’ Loring said, according to the outlet. ‘I think that all of his good work, and he’s done lots of good work, should not be diminished, should not be disappeared, because of unproven accusations.’

Loring added that she believed there was ‘no due process here, there’s no trial, and it goes against everything that I believe in.’

Emily Cain, a trustee who voted in favor, said she would ‘never stop being a fan’ of Mitchell’s work, particularly when it came to Northern Ireland.

‘But I also think the reality of right now is we’re not able to just talk about the work,’ Cain added, per the outlet.

As of Tuesday afternoon, a University of Maine website for the Mitchell Center still featured a photo of the former senator, but did not make any further mentions of Mitchell in its mission statement.

The website touted that the center was created to address sustainability challenges and address people’s well–being.

Mitchell had already resigned from his role as honorary chair of his scholarship funding program in February.

Program leaders said in a statement published on February 5 that ‘this is an appropriate time to initiate a thoughtful, responsible process to consider a potential name change.’

In addition to being a senator, Mitchell was also known for leading negotiations in Northern Ireland and the Middle East, having been appointed as a US Special Envoy by Bill Clinton and Barack Obama. 

The Daily Mail has reached out to Mitchell, as well as the University of Maine, its board of trustees and its Mitchell Center for comment.

The weekend’s deadly nor’easter stripped away huge sections of the Rockaway shoreline, leaving the Queens beach looking startlingly like the steep cliffs of Ireland.

At Jacob Riis Park, the storm ravaged parts of the city beach, carving out dangerous drop-offs and twisting trails of black sand that showed how fiercely the tides surged—reaching heights near the city streets.

“The beach is pretty much gone,” a Parks Department worker told The Post on Tuesday, speaking anonymously as crews began bringing in sand to replace the tons swept away by the storm.

“All the sand here was taken away and ended up down there by Breezy Point. So they’re all really happy in Breezy Point—they just got a lot of sand delivered,” he said.

The worker gestured toward wooden jetties along the shoreline, explaining that they had been buried beneath the sand until powerful waves scoured the beach clean.

At the federal park, the lone stone jetty helped prevent the beach from being completely washed away, the employee said.

Waves spilled over the Beach 149th jetty and surged up the shoreline, transforming a mound of dunes into a 14-foot sand cliff, according to measurements taken by The Post.

Sand residue along the railings near the local bathhouse suggested that the waves pushed sand as high as 26 inches onto the boardwalk.

John Thuilot, 18, of Belle Harbor, said he experienced the water’s force firsthand after joining a group of daredevil surfers who took on the storm Saturday.

“I was standing on a sandbar a ways out, and I felt the entire sandbar get pulled out from under my feet and just disappear,” Thuilot said.

By Tuesday, Riis Park resembled a construction site—a stark contrast to the calm shoreline that had attracted thousands of beachgoers only weeks earlier.

“It definitely looks different! You used to be able to walk through there by the jetty,” said Hazzard Ho, 32, who was stunned to discover that he could no longer cross the beach with his Labrador mix, Chef.

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“Now it just stops where that cliff is.”

The extent of the erosion differed along the shoreline. One resident said nearly 30 feet of beach had been torn away about four miles east of Riis Park.

“If it wasn’t for the new stone jetty, [the storm] would have taken most of the beach,” said Steve Closs, a retired FDNY lieutenant who lives near Beach 80th Street.

“The beach is almost totally gone,” said Closs, a former member of the Bravest, as he questioned how long repairs to the devastated shoreline might take.

The National Park Service oversees Riis Park, while the beaches near residential neighborhoods are managed by the city and the US Army Corps of Engineers. That divided responsibility has frustrated residents for years as they have pushed to remove the dangerous, ineffective wooden jetties.

City Councilwoman Joann Ariola described the erosion as a “tremendous cause for concern.”

“We can’t put this off and have work impact the summer season, nor can we leave residents unnecessarily vulnerable throughout the rest of storm season,” said Ariola, a Republican who urged the city’s Emergency Management Department and the US Army Corps of Engineers to inspect the damage immediately.

“Work needs to be done now, with clear timelines in place so that residents can be safe for any storms that follow this one, and Summer 2027 isn’t impacted next year.”

It’s not yet clear just how much sand was lost or how much it will cost to replenish the shores.

A 2013 project allocated a jaw-dropping $26.4 million to restore roughly 3.5 million cubic yards of sand lost during Sandy.

The Corps of Engineers told The Post it is currently assessing the situation to “put together a plan.

“It’s important to note that this project did suffer sand loss, but that also means it performed as intended by mitigating impacts from coastal flooding to the communities, reducing damage to infrastructure and property,” a rep said.