In 1988 Dolly Parton pulled every 7th and 8th grader in Sevier County into a room and told them to pick a buddy.
She made them sign a contract.. if BOTH graduate, she hands you both $500. One fails, nobody gets paid.
The county dropout rate went from 35% to 6%.
She handed out the checks herself.
In 1989 she offered $500 to every kid in the county who wanted to go to the local college.
When Gatlinburg burned in 2016, she sent 900 families $1,000 a month for six months.
You've probably heard that part.
Here's the part you haven't:
The fund raised more than expected, so she showed up in May and handed every one of those families another $5,000 on top.
Then she quietly put $3 million into the recovery group that handles the years after the news trucks leave.
She built her county an entire hospital.
She played a benefit concert in 2007, Dollywood and the Stampede matched it, and LeConte Medical Center opened in 2010 with a birthing unit and a women's center in it.
In 2022 she started covering 100% of tuition, books, and fees for Dollywood employees.
Full-time, part-time, AND seasonal.
In 1991 she paid for a bald eagle sanctuary because the birds couldn't be released back into the wild, no press release.
And when Hurricane Helene came through here in Western North Carolina, she wrote a personal check for $1 million and her companies matched it.
She didn't owe North Carolina anything, but she helped us anyway.
She started the Imagination Library because her daddy couldn't read or write. Before he passed, he told her it was the most important thing she ever did.
Rest in Peace, Dolly 🇺🇸
🚨 It’s a political earthquake 🚨
Two of the most powerful medical institutions in the United States just blew up one of the Left’s most protected sacred cows.
Decades from now, people will ask how doctors were allowed to mutilate & butcher healthy children in the name of "care".
HHS stepping in to block sex-rejecting procedures on kids is a major win for child protection. Thank you, @HHSGov & @SecKennedy
This high school student just called the Democrats in her state's leadership "ABSOLUTE COWARDS" for failing to protect girls' sports.
She calls them "GUTLESS MEN trying to stifle the voices of young female athletes."
Never happens.
Andrea Thompson just had her title stolen by a man, Jammie Booker, who won 1st at the World’s Strongest Woman competition in Arlington, Texas.
“This is bulls&@$. Can we go?”
I will never not be amazed and confused by an ideology that transformed the culture from:
2018 “me too” - when a man looking at a woman *funny* was equivalent to sexual violence …
to 2022 - when a man with a penis (as men have) who says he’s a woman because he likes lipstick can ogle a woman in the shower and claim to be oppressed and have the world champion his fetish as a necessary and noble civil rights battle.
What a world.
XX day is coming! 10/10/25.
It’s our day! I saw someone in real life wearing this shirt the other day. Woohoo!!!! She knew. I knew. We instantly found each other.