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 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 🇺🇸
@odoraron@kailanichols07@RobertStillwell camera comes to tell them how good a job they’re doing and people like you argue that there’s not anything wrong with it, i’m just putting myself in the family’s shoes wich for some reason a lot of people are lacking the ablity to do it seems.
@odoraron@kailanichols07@RobertStillwell i’m assuming you or your family is still in africa with all the african post on your page, now imagine your mom or sister dies and a bunch of strangers who you don’t know start showing up with cameras trampling your sacred grounds and destroying your huts, then someone with a….
@odoraron@kailanichols07@RobertStillwell the people who are acting specifically like the individual in this video are only showing up out of a self centered reason this isn’t about “ paying respects” when you treat someone’s place of death like a pop up circus show and to reward that behavior is asinine to me
Remembering the late, great Dolly, who brought joy, comfort and inspiration to so many - including the millions of children given free books through her Imagination Library. We will always ❤️ you.
@DeVegte@RobertStillwell Cause retards like you wanna go there and cause chaos instead of letting a family mourn it sucks they have to use police resources to stop grown infants that can’t fathom to not be the center of attention for two seconds just stay in the fucking kitchen bro your BoH for a reason
@RockyD41765@RobertStillwell fucking thank you were surrounded by completely helpless retards here especially in Brentwood/Nashville it’s unfortunate the cops have to be there but if they weren’t it would be total hell at her house rn and i bet unfortunately there will be a break in or atleast an attempt
@kailanichols07@RobertStillwell …It’s always a new low for yall let me guess the head line “Breaking Dolly’s dead who gets all her shit now more at 6” yall annoy the fuck outta me you can never hate journalists enough