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.
Decir que el feminismo "destruyó" la familia es admitir que la "familia tradicional" dependía de que las mujeres obedecieran, callaran y sacrificaran su libertad por sostenerla.
Time for me to speak my next cancelable truth: I like Hayden. I will always have a soft spot for a golden retriever extrovert who adopts an introvert friend. I know he’s an idiot, but he’s Shane’s idiot.
Columbia had students who said this was true arrested, expelled, and stripped of their degrees. They were falsely accused of antisemitism by the international press and government for speaking out. What will the consequence be for the perpetrators admitting it? Probably nothing.
i hope somebody goes and kicks over that stupid fucking Dobby memorial, like wdym they rerouted construction to now run closer to a Bronze Age burial site instead?? fuck all the way offfffffffff. I'm so tired of this demon woman and her fans
READ OTHER BOOKS
Elle se sert de l'argent d'Harry Potter pour essayer de faire pression sur le système de santé national afin qu'ils banissent les personnes trans, quitte a mettre en péril la santé de milliers de gens
Mais continuez de stream des produits dérivés et d'aller au ciné hein 😮💨
Notice how Andrew Garfield isn't on social media and still manages to speak up for trans people and Palestinians in Gaza?
There's really no excuse for actors who made their whole shtick between 2016 and 2021 being uber-liberal anti-Trump now being quiet in the face of it.
Je suis anéanti dans les commentaires ya des gens qui se plaignent parce que c’est l’argent de NOS IMPÔTS qui va aux enfants
Mais qd ce même argent est détourné par le RN ou qu’il va dans la poche des politiques et leurs avantages bah ça va ya pas de pb
Le pays est tellement MORT