According to Graves County DPIL, Lowes Elementary School principal Ryan Marchetti recently worked to bring Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library to Mayfield and Graves County, to develop early literacy throughout the county.
The DPIL international web site says show business icon Parton initiated the program in 1995. She did so, based on memories of how her own father’s illiteracy contributed to the family’s inability to escape poverty.
The project now mails more than one million free books monthly to children throughout the United States and three other English-speaking countries.
“When I was growing up in the hills of east Tennessee, I knew my dreams would come true,” Parton said on the website. “I know there are children in your community with their own dreams… The seeds of these dreams are often found in books and the seeds you help plant in your community can grow across the world.”
To register a child at the Graves County program’s internet address, the child must be a resident of Mayfield or Graves County. Log on to bit.ly/gravesdpil, or visit one of the nine local donation partners. The site has links to all the partners which are: the Annie Gardner Foundation, the City of Mayfield, First Kentucky Bank, FNB Bank, Independence Bank of Mayfield, the Jackson Purchase Medical Center, the Graves County Public Library, Mayfield Independent Schools, and Graves County Schools.
On the Net:
Graves County DPIL Website
