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 🇺🇸
This is a reference to Which Way Western Man, a 1978 book by William Gayley Simpson, one of America's most prominent Nazis.
The book argues Hitler was right, claims there is a Jewish plot against white people and advocates violence against Jewish people
What a twisted thing to believe, that state legislators owe fealty to the President and that failure to render it is disloyal and dishonorable. A complete failure of basic moral and civic education.
The rise of Indiana football under Cignetti is one of the most impressive things I've ever seen.
Just getting to a bowl game has long been the ceiling for that program. Then Cignetti comes in, goes to CFP in Year 1, legit top-5 team in Year 2.
That just doesn't happen in CFB.
My latest: I went inside Turning Point USA's conference for conservative young women
To get a sense of what I saw, watch this video of Charlie Kirk telling a 14-year-old in braces that she should only go to college to get an "MRS degree"
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a 6th grader in tx took her life bc she was getting bullied by kids telling her that they’re going to call ice on her parents + that she would end up alone.
ya’ll are raising hateful children. may you and your child never know peace.
justice for jocelynn rojo carranza
You guys the Vice President of the United States just blew off the Chancellor of Germany to meet with Nazis instead.
Does it need to be more fucking clear to Americans what kind of people are running the country & what they are doing? Time to decide how you want to be remembered