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Will a Dolly Parton statue grace the Tennessee State Capitol grounds?

State Representative John Mark Windle has proposed building a statue of "9 to 5" singer Dolly Parton on the state's Capitol grounds.

795 shares She founded the Imagination Library, which mails books to children under the age of five across the world to improve child literacy, and her million-dollar donation to Vanderbilt University helped develop the highly effective Moderna coronavirus vaccine. Her advocacy for racial justice was recently celebrated in a mural in Nashville. She deserves it: Democratic Rep. John Mark Windle introduced a bill Tuesday that aims to honor Parton 'for all that she has contributed to this state,' news outlets reported. Seen in 2019  Windle said the state capitol commission would solicit input ...

A Dolly Parton statue may be erected at the Tennessee Capitol CNN 1/14/2021 By Scottie Andrew, CNN © Shahar Azran/Shutterstock Dolly Parton at We Are Family Foundation Celebration Gala, Inside, Hammerstein Ballroom, New York, USA - 05 Nov 2019 Dolly Parton may be the quintessential Tennessean. Born and raised in the Smoky Mountains, she's waxed poetic about her "Tennessee mountain home" in her recordings. She donated $1 million to Vanderbilt University Medical Center that helped develop a coronavirus vaccine. It's fitting, then, that she be honored with a statue in front...

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