Heather Cox Richardson
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7,479 appearances
87 recordings
10 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 2d ago
Heather Cox Richardson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Renamed Dollywood, the park became the biggest ticketed attraction in the state, now visited by about four million people a year and employing about four thousand.
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I always thought that if I made it big or got successful at what I had started out to do, that I wanted to come back to my part of the country and do something great, something that would bring a lot of jobs into this area, she told a reporter.
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Two years later, she established the Dollywood Foundation to support education in Sevier County.
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In nineteen ninety, her buddy program decreased the high school dropout rate in classes that participated from thirty five percent to six percent.
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In twenty sixteen, the Dollywood Foundation created the My People Fund, as in These Are My People, providing immediate financial assistance to families who lost their homes in wildfires in Sevier County that November.
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It donated more than twelve million dollars.
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In twenty twenty, Parton donated a million dollars to Vanderbilt University Medical Center to fund the research that allowed researchers to prove that mRNA vaccine technology worked.
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That research led to grants that enabled development of the Moderna mRNA vaccine against COVID nineteen that saved millions of lives.
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She also helped encourage others to get vaccinated, taking her own shot on camera, in a dress she had cut the shoulders out of so the doctor would have easier access.
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Beginning in February 2022, under the Grow You Program, Parton provided 100% free tuition, fees, and books to any of the 11,000 employees at any of the 25 amusement parks and attractions under Herschend Enterprises.
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The president of Dollywood told reporters that one of the key tenets of the Dollywood Foundation is to learn more.
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He said that Parton is very supportive of the employees learning and continuing to grow themselves.
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That drive for growth and opportunity was behind Dolly Parton's Imagination Library, which Parton founded in nineteen ninety five to put books into the hands of every young child in Severe County.
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Her inspiration, she said, was her father, and
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who was the smartest man I have ever known.
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But I know in my heart his inability to read probably kept him from fulfilling all his dreams.
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The program has grown until it now serves children across the United States, Australia, Canada, Ireland, and the United Kingdom.
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In February twenty eighteen, Parton donated the one hundred millionth book from her imagination library to the Library of Congress.
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It was a copy of her book Coat of Many Colors, dedicated to her father.
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By the time Dolly Parton died on Tuesday, august twenty fifth, at the age of eighty, her Imagination Library had delivered more than three hundred and thirty two million books to more than three million children.
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