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Dolly Parton, la legendaria cantante y filántropa, falleció a los 80 años, dejando un legado duradero a través de su Imagination Library en Kentucky, un programa que envía libros gratuitos mensuales a niños desde el nacimiento hasta los 5 años. La junta directiva del programa confirmó su compromiso de continuar realizando la visión de Parton para la alfabetización infantil temprana en todo el estado, especialmente después de que en agosto de 2024 celebraron el hito de llegar a los 120 condados de Kentucky. Actualmente, más de 120,000 niños menores de cinco años en Kentucky reciben libros gratuitos cada mes a través de este programa que comenzó en 1995.
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LEXINGTON, Ky. — The board and staff of Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library of Kentucky mourned the passing of their founder and the program’s namesake, saying they remain committed to realizing her vision for early childhood literacy across the commonwealth.
Dolly Parton, the legendary country music icon and philanthropist, died at age 80, her family announced Tuesday. In a statement released by the organization, the board said in a release, “We are deeply saddened by the passing of our founder and inspiration, Dolly Parton.”
The statement paid particular tribute to Parton’s visit to Lexington in August 2024, when she celebrated the milestone of the Imagination Library reaching all 120 Kentucky counties. The program, launched in 1995, mails free age-appropriate books monthly to children from birth to age 5.
“We were so proud to realize her dream of the Imagination Library across the entire Commonwealth, and we will forever be grateful that she came to celebrate with us in 2024,” the board and staff said in a statement. “She leaves a legacy unlike any other in American life, and it will live on every time a Kentucky child receives her gift of reading.”
More than 120,000 Kentucky children under five currently receive free books each month through the program. The Imagination Library sends high-quality, age-appropriate books to children regardless of their family’s income.
At the 2024 celebration event held at the historic Lyric Theatre in downtown Lexington, Parton described the Imagination Library as one of her proudest accomplishments. “It’s good to be in Kentucky. I love Kentucky,” she told the gathered crowd of over 500 program partners, library staff and literacy advocates.
Sources
- CNN coverage of Dolly Parton’s death
- Imagination Library Kentucky program official website
- LEX18 coverage of Parton’s Lexington visit and Kentucky program expansion
- WDRB coverage of Imagination Library reaching all Kentucky counties
- Kentucky Department of Libraries and Archives Imagination Library page
This article was generated by AI (claude-haiku-4-5-20251001) from a press release emailed to [email protected] by Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library of Kentucky, enriched with 2 web searches.
