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09/02/2026

"I have never witnessed more inept management of the brave men and women who serve our country."

09/02/2026

The idea of dedicating September 25 to Dolly Parton is gaining attention, and for millions of Americans, it feels like more than a celebration—it would be a lasting tribute to a woman whose music and generosity touched generations.

Dolly’s influence reaches far beyond country music. With timeless songs such as “Jolene,” “Coat of Many Colors,” and “9 to 5,” she built an extraordinary career while staying connected to everyday people. Her songwriting, humor, determination, and unmistakable voice made her an enduring American icon.

Yet Dolly’s legacy is equally powerful because of what she gave back. Through the Dollywood Foundation and Imagination Library, she helped place millions of books into children’s hands. Her support for education, literacy, disaster relief, and countless charitable causes showed that her heart was as remarkable as her talent.

Honoring her with a dedicated day could give people across the country a chance to celebrate her music while remembering the values she represented: kindness, resilience, faith, generosity, and compassion. It could also inspire others to continue the spirit of giving she championed.

Dolly Parton left behind far more than hit records and unforgettable performances. She created a legacy built on music, love, laughter, and service. A day in her honor would be a powerful reminder of just how deeply one extraordinary woman changed the lives of millions.

09/02/2026

08/31/2026

Don Henley called Dolly a national treasure back in 2015, and he had just watched her work.

He was making a country record called Cass County and wanted her on a song called "When I Stop Dreaming." He had only met her once before, briefly. He said she was the only person who could make that song work with him.

She said yes, but told him he would have to come to Nashville. He was already in Nashville.

She showed up dressed to the nines, listened to the track for about a minute, and said she knew the song. Then she cut it and left.

08/31/2026

At 93, Tom Skerritt remains one of our last living links to a remarkable era of American film and television.
He was rarely the loudest man on screen—yet his quiet authority made every scene feel more believable.
He led the crew into darkness as Captain Dallas in *Alien*, guided Maverick as Viper in *Top Gun* and brought warmth to *Steel Magnolias* and *A River Runs Through It*. Television audiences also embraced him as Sheriff Jimmy Brock in *Picket Fences*.
Happy 93rd birthday to Tom Skerritt. Which role best captures the quiet strength he brought to the screen?

08/31/2026

Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood are handing over a whole day of business to Dolly's books.

They are calling September 25 Dolly Day at Friends in Low Places, their bar on Broadway in Nashville. Every dollar that register takes that day goes to the Imagination Library. Trisha put it plain. Whatever the cash register says at the end of the day is going to Dolly's passion.

The date is 9/25, for "9 to 5."

And they are not doing it once. It becomes an annual thing at that bar.

Garth's line was that Dolly is proof if you spend your whole life loving, you will live forever.

08/31/2026

The billionaire joined Olivia Rodrigo onstage. Read more: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/melinda-gates-olivia-rodrigo-donate-20-million-to-women-and-girls-organizations_n_6a947066e4b05bad05884444?ref=bffbhuffpost&ncid_tag=fcbklnkushpmg00000063&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&utm_campaign=us_main&d_id=12327223

08/31/2026

Whitney Houston took a song Dolly Parton had written nearly twenty years earlier and turned it into one of the most famous recordings in music history.

Dolly made millions from it.

What she quietly did with some of that money is the best part of the story.

Dolly wrote "I Will Always Love You" in 1972, the same day she wrote "Jolene," as a farewell to Porter Wagoner after deciding to leave his TV show and go out on her own.

She first recorded it in 1973. It became a country hit.

Then, in 1992, Whitney Houston recorded it for The Bodyguard.

Her towering, soaring version became a worldwide phenomenon, spending 14 weeks at number one in the United States.

Because Dolly had written it, Whitney's success became Dolly's windfall too.

Houston's recording reportedly earned Parton around $10 million in royalties over the following decade.

Years later, Dolly revealed exactly where some of that money went.

In 1997, she used it to buy an office complex in what was then a predominantly Black neighborhood in Nashville, an area now known as 12 South.

"It was mostly just Black families and people that lived around there," she said. "This is the perfect place for me to be," she remembered thinking, "considering it was Whitney."

There was something else about it she loved.

Money made from the phenomenal success of a Black woman's voice was going straight back into a Black Nashville community.

"I'm going to be down here with her people," Dolly said, people she considered her own too.

She had her own name for the place.

"This is the house that Whitney built."

The building, known as Inca Hoots Productions, went on to serve as office space for her businesses and her own personal recording studio for decades.

Days after Dolly's death, fans and musicians began gathering there, at that same building, to remember her.

One song, written on the same day as another of her biggest hits, ended up funding an entire piece of the city she loved, and honoring the woman whose voice had carried it around the world.

08/31/2026

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