Maxcident

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

The doctor who delivered Dolly Parton in a one-room Tennessee cabin in 1946 was paid with a sack of cornmeal. Her father farmed other people's land and could not read or write. Eighty years later, the reading program she built in his name has mailed more than 300 million books.

She wrote "I Will Always Love You" on the same afternoon she wrote "Jolene," as a goodbye to Porter Wagoner, and released it in 1974. Elvis wanted it. The night before the session, Colonel Tom Parker called and said Presley would only record it if they got half the publishing, meaning half of everything the song ever earned. She had been in Nashville ten years by then. She said no, and cried all night. Whitney Houston cut her version in 1992, held number one for fourteen weeks, and Forbes later put Parton's royalties from it near $10 million. She put some of that money into an office complex in Nashville and called the place the house that Whitney built.

Dollywood opened in Pigeon Forge in 1986 because she wanted paychecks in the county she came from. Around 4,000 people work there now. Three million visitors come every year. The University of Tennessee put its economic impact at $1.8 billion, and it is the largest employer in Sevier County. Since 2022 the company has paid tuition, fees, and books in full for every worker from their first day, seasonal hires included.

Wildfires tore through those mountains in November 2016, killing fourteen people and destroying more than 2,400 buildings. Her foundation was handing out money within 48 hours. Every family that lost a home got $1,000 a month for six months, regardless of income. The final check was $5,000. Total delivered: $8.9 million.

In April 2020 she sent $1 million to Vanderbilt for coronavirus research. When Moderna's vaccine results ran in the New England Journal of Medicine that November, her fund appeared in the footnotes.

Carl Dean, her husband of nearly sixty years, died in March 2025. The note she wrote to fans afterward ended with the same five words she wrote for Porter Wagoner back in 1974. She died in Nashville today. Her family asked that instead of flowers, people give to the Imagination Library, which still mails 3.4 million books a month to children who will never get to meet her.

[Maxcident @_grainline]

First line of Coat of Many Colors and I’m crying like a baby 😭

[Maxcident @_grainline]

Just got head hunted by one of my dream companies to work for but we bought a house and I don’t want to move again 😩

[New Jersey @NJGov]

shoutout to all the jersey girls

[Maxcident @_grainline]

My fiancé looked at this picture for ~8 seconds and accurately guessed the opposing beam based off uniforms alone….

[Nice Bison @Nice_Bison]

My view on August 31, 2024. The first game of the Indiana Curt Cignetti era

[New Jersey @NJGov]

best day of the year!!

[Maxcident @_grainline]

trisha paytas tiktok edit made me cry :(

[Outlander Magazine @StreetFashion01]

Ralph Lauren just doesn’t miss

[Maxcident @_grainline]

Hey twitter I got a job offer for a role I thought I was totally unqualified for! I was up against someone with 10x the experience as me!! Just try!!!

[Maxcident @_grainline]

Been working on a development of 30 (!!!) pairs of jeans for the past 6 months with my team and just found out that all of it was scrapped because of a singular sales rep……

[Maxcident @_grainline]

He asked for the Conrad Fisher cut

[Olivia Ray @OliviaRayTV]

Joe? You good?

[Ari Meirov @MySportsUpdate]

Jaxson Dart saw the ref with his hand up in the air, so he gave him a high-five. 😂😂

[manuel @manwelllb_]

I have to do the job I applied and got hired for

[Maxcident @_grainline]

2. Sherwin Williams (“who’s Sharon Williams?”)

Bonus points: he was wearing a pair of Sherwin Williams painter shorts

[Maxcident @_grainline]

Starting a list of all the things our intern doesn’t know.

1. The Vatican. (He thought it was something from Harry Potter)

[Maxcident @_grainline]

Intern just came in with a fresh face dermal 🤕

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

"I even gave my life to Christ in a Cracker Barrel parking lot" is an Action Bronson line

[Maxcident @_grainline]

@snotgurldaily 📝

[Maxcident @_grainline]

When the teens in love show uses the song you wanted to use for your wedding 😒😒