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I had the pleasure of taking part in the
Pulpwood Queens' Girlfriend Weekend, Jan 13-16 in Jefferson, TX. To say I had fun is a gross understatement. I had a BALL, especially at the Great Big Ball of Hair Ball! (You'd have to be there)
Not only does founder,
Kathy Louise Patrick of
Beauty and the Book - a beauty salon/bookstore - support literacy and authors, she is hugely involved in the
Dolly Parton Imagination Library. There's nothing this dynamo won't do when it comes to reading!
And, a shout-out goes to my home county,
Harrison/Corydon, Indiana!
The
Harrison County Community Foundation is again offering a 2:1 match during the 2011 calendar year; this time to support Dolly Parton's Imagination Library program through the Early Readers Fund.
"The program will cost about $50,000 a year", reports executive director Steve Gilliland. "This double-match incentive is to recruit donor partners from the community to help us build an endowment that will perpetually fund the Imagination Library."
Joan and Pete Schickel quickly took advantage of the Foundation's offer. They provided nearly $25,000 in stock to become the lead private donor.
"Everyone knows how much we love children and our schools," says Joan. "Pete and I believe this program will help provide an appreciation for reading and give children a head start for kindergarten."
Please support the Dolly Parton Imagination Library in your area. If your county doesn't have one, look into starting one!
Here's how:A community must make the program accessible to all preschool children in their area. The community pays for the books and mailing, promotes the program, registers the children, and enters the information into the database.
From there The Dollywood Foundation takes over and manages the system to deliver the books to the home. You can find out more of the operational details on other pages in this website – so what are you waiting for! Hundreds of communities are providing books to hundreds of thousands of children.Check out the
Pulpwood Queens, Beauty & the Book and the Dolly Parton Imagination Library! Click Here Mary Cunningham Books for 'Tweens
Our Should Authors Dance? feature attracted a ton of enthusiasm. Next week, we will launch a Facebook campaign to get one literary luminary to appear on Dancing with the Stars.
Our readers suggested 10 different authors last week, and the votes have poured in on Facebook. Here are the vote counts for the lead contenders:
Claire Cook = 47
Kathy L. Patrick = 17
David Sedaris = 2
Claire Cook has already posted about the contest on her blog. She wrote: “Would I do it? Absolutely! Not just for me, but for all the other non-celebrity midlife women out there – because we’ve got a lot of living left to do!”
Voting closes on Friday, and we will publish the winning author’s Facebook petition next week. Please submit your votes in either the comments section or on our Facebook wall. Tell your friends, family, neighbors, acquaintances, and verifiable-friendly strangers to participate–we’ll need all your enthusiasm to land a spot on the show.
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Looking at the comments section for our Should Authors Dance? post, it seemed like plenty of GalleyCat readers want to see their favorite writer appear on Dancing with the Stars. Now it’s time to do something about it.
Reader Michelle Gilstrap suggested Lotus Eaters author Tatjana Soli and proposed: “[Soli] is coming to Los Angeles for a special event on October 16th, I will ask her if she would like to do it. We should start a Facebook page for her, if she says yes. This is how they got Betty White on [Saturday Night Live].”
It’s a great idea. We’ll start by letting our readers pick the best writer to appear on Dancing with the Stars–we’ve collected ten suggestions from GalleyCat readers below. Go to this Facebook link to vote for your favorite author. We’ll count the votes and build a special Facebook page to advocate for the winning author. The ten suggestions follow below…
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