Dolly Parton is coolness

OK, sure Dolly Parton is fun to make fun of. But she's a danged good songwriter. **And**, she apparently does some pretty good charity work.

One that Slag might appreciate:

''Her literacy program, Dolly Parton's "Imagination Library", which mails one book per month to children from the time of their birth until they enter kindergarten, began in Sevier County, Tennessee, but has now been replicated in 566 counties across thirty-six U.S. states [...]. The program distributes more than 2.5 million free books to children annually.''

(source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolly_Parton#Philanthropic_efforts )

Hmm -- so, if you enter kindergarten at five years old, that's 60 months -- which would be 60 books.

Not bad.


--GG