Dolly Parton Is an Actual Angel

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Dolly Parton Is an Actual Angel

By Elizabeth Chiles Shelburne  |  October 15, 2019  |  3:38pm

Photo by Douglas Mason / GettyBOOKS FEATURES DOLLY PARTON

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Growing up in East Tennessee, it’s nearly impossible to escape Dolly Parton’s influence. She’s everywhere—her music, her image, her hair. And there is, as sometimes happens with celebrities, a sense of ownership over her.

Dolly grew up just 65 miles down the road from where I did, and while Tennessee is often associated with Nashville, where we grew up was most certainly not. Dolly isn’t just country, she’s mountain. She got out and made something of herself, but she never forgot her people. Where I grew up, there’s no greater sin than forgetting where you came from.

As a child, worshiping at the altar of Dolly was going to Dollywood, Dolly’s theme park. Amazingly, my second-grade class won a trip there by virtue of reading the most books (of our school or the state? I don’t remember). Going to Dollywood was the first time, even at that young age, I thought that Dolly Parton might be an angel.

We had packed lunches but brought enough money for lemonade and funnel cakes. To this day, I don’t think there is a better funnel cake in the world that the one at Dollywood. After the cakes, I rode the log flume so many times my shorts didn’t dry, and I waddled through my last hour at the park, my legs chafed. Still, it was worth every minute; I discovered a love for roller coasters (and the aforementioned funnel cakes) thanks to Dolly.

For a girl like me, growing up where I did, that theme park was an oasis. From that time on, I knew Dolly Parton was an angel.

But she’s least known for her most angelic work. Dolly, whose father was illiterate, started a once-a-month giving library in 1995 for children ages zero to five in her corner of East Tennessee. Dolly realized that having books in a house led the children who read those books to dream, and in turn, those dreams led the children to stay in school. Starting with 1,760 books given out in Sevier County, Tennessee 24 years ago, Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library now mails more than one million books per month across the U.S., Australia, Britain, Canada and Ireland.

 

[TBoneTX 45,469]

Not really a current event or hot social topic.

Nevertheless, true that D.P. seems to have a genuinely good heart.

[Nature Boy 2.0 8,376]

5 hours ago, 90DayFinancier said:

https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2019/10/dolly-parton-is-an-actual-angel.html

 

 

 

 

Dolly Parton Is an Actual Angel

By Elizabeth Chiles Shelburne  |  October 15, 2019  |  3:38pm

Photo by Douglas Mason / GettyBOOKS FEATURES DOLLY PARTON

ShareTweetPinText

Growing up in East Tennessee, it’s nearly impossible to escape Dolly Parton’s influence. She’s everywhere—her music, her image, her hair. And there is, as sometimes happens with celebrities, a sense of ownership over her.

Dolly grew up just 65 miles down the road from where I did, and while Tennessee is often associated with Nashville, where we grew up was most certainly not. Dolly isn’t just country, she’s mountain. She got out and made something of herself, but she never forgot her people. Where I grew up, there’s no greater sin than forgetting where you came from.

As a child, worshiping at the altar of Dolly was going to Dollywood, Dolly’s theme park. Amazingly, my second-grade class won a trip there by virtue of reading the most books (of our school or the state? I don’t remember). Going to Dollywood was the first time, even at that young age, I thought that Dolly Parton might be an angel.

We had packed lunches but brought enough money for lemonade and funnel cakes. To this day, I don’t think there is a better funnel cake in the world that the one at Dollywood. After the cakes, I rode the log flume so many times my shorts didn’t dry, and I waddled through my last hour at the park, my legs chafed. Still, it was worth every minute; I discovered a love for roller coasters (and the aforementioned funnel cakes) thanks to Dolly.

For a girl like me, growing up where I did, that theme park was an oasis. From that time on, I knew Dolly Parton was an angel.

But she’s least known for her most angelic work. Dolly, whose father was illiterate, started a once-a-month giving library in 1995 for children ages zero to five in her corner of East Tennessee. Dolly realized that having books in a house led the children who read those books to dream, and in turn, those dreams led the children to stay in school. Starting with 1,760 books given out in Sevier County, Tennessee 24 years ago, Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library now mails more than one million books per month across the U.S., Australia, Britain, Canada and Ireland.

 

She is good people 

[90DayFinancier 910]

6 hours ago, TBoneTX said:

Not really a current event or hot social topic.

Nevertheless, true that D.P. seems to have a genuinely good heart.

Hmm, the commentary was from Oct 15 and literacy should be a hot topic as evidenced by some posts in this forum.

 

 

[Nature Boy 2.0 8,376]

6 minutes ago, 90DayFinancier said:

Hmm, the commentary was from Oct 15 and literacy should be a hot topic as evidenced by some posts in this forum.

 

 

didn't you just misspell two words dudette 

[90DayFinancier 910]

3 hours ago, Nature Boy 2.0 said:

didn't you just misspell two words dudette 

Underscoring my point, literacy matters

[TBoneTX 45,469]

Litrisy maters

[90DayFinancier 910]

1 hour ago, TBoneTX said:

Litrisy maters

I am starting to acquire a taste for your humor, time to adjust my medication.

[laylalex 7,293]

10 minutes ago, 90DayFinancier said:

I am starting to acquire a taste for your humor, time to adjust my medication.

I always liked Klonopin.💊

[90DayFinancier 910]

1 minute ago, laylalex said:

I always liked Klonopin.💊

Ohh let me look that up.

 

Edit: nope, strong interaction with alcohol. I will just need to I power through.

Edited November 8, 2019 by 90DayFinancier

[Nature Boy 2.0 8,376]

5 minutes ago, laylalex said:

I always liked Klonopin.💊

Gambapentin and Narco 10mg. When my neck is acting up. Makes Tbones jokes less painful 

[90DayFinancier 910]

6 minutes ago, Nature Boy 2.0 said:

Gambapentin and Narco 10mg. When my neck is acting up. Makes Tbones jokes less painful 

Using thanks ' cuz we don't have a laugh till it hurts emoticon. ( See what I did with 'cuz?)

[Nature Boy 2.0 8,376]

12 minutes ago, 90DayFinancier said:

Using thanks ' cuz we don't have a laugh till it hurts emoticon. ( See what I did with 'cuz?)

And if he pots late a 10mg aimbien and shot of tequila 

[laylalex 7,293]

15 minutes ago, Nature Boy 2.0 said:

And if he pots late a 10mg aimbien and shot of tequila 

Is this a new drinking game? 

[Boketto 211]

Y’all need Jesus.