His first job was at a print shop, and he was fired after his hat fell into the printing press. So his mother found him a job with a candy maker, and he fell in love with sugar. At eighteen, he opened his own candy shop in Philadelphia, worked day and night for six years and went broke. He tried again in Chicago and failed, then in New York and fai
Dolly Parton didn't spend her dollars on space travel or a trip to the Titanic because she was writing checks to put 264 million books in the hands of children.
book arriving in an ordinary mailbox with a child's name printed on the label. That may be the truest memorial of all. The best way to remember Dolly is not to freeze her in amber as the last person kind enough to do these things. It is to refuse the idea that kindness like hers was a limited edition. Be the person who makes the call. Send the book
East Tennessee Children's Hospital announced a generational partnership and took the name Dolly Parton Children's Hospital. Her name had moved from a television credit to a book label to the front of a place where children go to heal. Think about the distance between those two images. A little girl in a small one-bedroom home composing songs before
A thread running through every course, a laugh in the room and a tear held back. You showed us that shining and serving can share one road, and love is the finest thing a person can pass. Dolly, your kindness keeps traveling on, like a family hymn when the daylight is gone. You gave us a voice for the weary and brave, and planted bright books in th
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