Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts has grown from humble beginnings, as Michael Eavis’s Worthy Farm Pop Festival in 1970 headlined by T-Rex and attended by around 1,500 people, to an… Read more »

Country singer, philanthropist, and actual living legend Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library, a charity dedicated to giving free books to children, announced this week that she will be expanding the program to… Read more »

The United States—its actual topography notwithstanding—is full of book deserts. That term refers to areas (skewing heavily toward lower-income communities) underserved by both libraries and bookstores, places where books have a… Read more »

Dolly Parton — singer, songwriter, actress, legend, icon, humanitarian — started the Imagination Library in 1995, a literacy program that mails children a free book every month from the time… Read more »

Television is a pretty big deal in America. Lots of people watch it. Lots of people get paid too much money to write about it. Some people imagine political figures… Read more »

Way way back in 2012 we wrote about the international impact of Dolly Parton’s child literacy initiative, Imagination Library. We offered this bit of background on the project: Launched by singer/actress… Read more »

The founder of Delaware-based brewing company Dogfish Head, Sam Calagione, has a habit of describing his product as “analog beer for the digital age.” Now, according to the company’s website, the former English major… Read more »

The BBC reported this week that the town of Bradford, England, will start an Imagination Library, following the lead of Rotherham and other towns in England and Scotland. Launched by… Read more »