Did you know the Magic School Bus has a holiday special? The season 3 finale episode takes the class to a recycling center, where Ms. Frizzle's first cousin (voiced by @DollyParton) teaches them about recycling.
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 ๐บ๐ธ
I WOULD LIKE TO REMIND EVERYONE IN AMERICA THAT THE MAN WHO'S IN CHARGE OF YOUR HEALTHCARE ACTUALLY TESTIFIED DURING HIS DIVORCE IN 2012 THAT HE COULDN'T AFFORD ALIMONY BECAUSE HE WAS SO BRAIN DAMAGED THAT HE COULDN'T HOLD A JOB ๐
๐จ OH. MY. GOSH!!!!!!!
It has been revealed that the city of Asheville NC will only rebuild 8 HOUSES with the $225 MILLION grant they received from the Trump administration after Hurricane Helene.
Yes, you read that right... EIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!
...OUT OF 11,488 DAMAGED HOMES
The city allocated ONLY $3 MILLION for home repairs.
And $14.9 MILLION for "administration"
FIVE TIMES MORE for PAPERWORK than for the people whose homes got COMPLETELY DESTROYED!!!!!!
Over 100+ approved families are CURRENTLY ON A WAITLIST that will never be funded.
THIS IS CRIMINAL!!!!!!!!!!!
PEOPLE NEED TO GO TO JAIL!!!!!!!!!!!!
Reporter: Was Malcolm X preaching hate and violence?
Denzel Washington: Is the sheep preaching hate and violence when he says I'm not going to let a wolf eat me anymore?