Beene Pearson Public Library

09/04/2026

*We will reopen Tuesday September 8th*
Have a happy & safe long weekend!

09/02/2026

Join us for our next book club meeting!

09/01/2026

Your local library can give you access to all of these endless resources & possibilities - Come by today and sign-up! ⭐️ 📚

● Access to our collection of books here at Beene Pearson, OR through our Interlibrary Loan program with other libraries throughout the state of TN 🧡

● Unlimited access to a huge collection of E-Books & Audio books through the Libby app from any device!

● Computers & laptops available for in-library use

● Free wireless internet access

● Crafting/"Maker's Space" for anyone needing to work on a project for school or hobby

● Large historical/genealogical resource section

● Copying/Printing/Faxing/Lamination

● Free scheduled use of our conference room area

● Help with finding local & state resources

● Boating exams

● Free family passes for area attractions

● Various programs for children & adults alike 💛 And so much more!

08/26/2026

Due to the passing of our beloved Dolly Parton, I have been asked how to donate to the Marion County Imagination Library in honor of her. 🩷🩷 The website is https://donate.imaginationlibrary.com/
You can choose the amount you’d like to give. You will need to check “I would like to designate this donation to a specific Imagination Library Local
Program Partner”, then choose “United States”, then “TN -Marion County”. Please share this post with anyone you think might want to honor Dolly’s memory with a donation.🦋

Sandra Crabtree

Make a donation and support Dolly Parton's Imagination Library in communities around the world and help put more books into the hands of more children.

08/26/2026

A Mighty Girl Pick of the Day: "Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics" by Dolly Parton. The first song Dolly Parton ever wrote, at the age of six, was an ode to her corncob doll Tasseltop. She was the fourth of twelve children in a two-room cabin in the Great Smoky Mountains of eastern Tennessee, singing before she could read and writing lyrics on scraps of paper her mother saved for her.

In the over seventy years since, she has written more than three thousand songs -- Jolene, 9 to 5, Coat of Many Colors, I Will Always Love You, and hundreds of others that people around the world know by heart -- built a business empire, opened a theme park in the mountains she grew up in, and funded a children's literacy program that has given away more than three hundred million books. "I may look like a show pony," she writes in this book, "but I'm a workhorse."

In "Songteller," Dolly walks her readers through 175 of her own songs, telling the story of where each one came from and what it meant to her. Illustrated throughout with hundreds of previously unpublished photographs from her personal and business archives -- childhood snapshots, sequined stage costumes, handwritten lyric sheets, backstage moments with everyone from Porter Wagoner to Emmylou Harris -- this New York Times bestselling memoir is at once an intimate self-portrait and a working songwriter's master class.

Dolly writes candidly about her painful split from Porter Wagoner, about the years she was underestimated as a woman in country music, and about the private grief and self-doubt that fed some of her most enduring songs. The result is a portrait of one of the most prolific songwriters in American music history, told in the only way that would ever do her justice: song by song, in her own words. Highly recommended for adult readers.

"Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics" is available at https://amzn.to/4xgl9ta (Amazon) and https://bookshop.org/a/8011/9781797224732 (Bookshop)

For an uplifting picture book about her childhood growing up poor in rural Tennessee -- which helped spark her desire to help others -- we highly recommend "Coat of Many Colors" for ages 4 to 8, visit https://www.amightygirl.com/coat-of-many-colors

For more books to introduce kids to the extraordinary Dolly Parton, we recommend the picture books "Dolly Parton: Little People, Big Dreams” for ages 5 to 8 (https://www.amightygirl.com/dolly-parton-little-people) and "Dazzlin' Dolly" for ages 5 to 9 (https://www.amightygirl.com/dazzlin-dolly), and the illustrated biography "Who Is Dolly Parton?" for ages 8 to 12 (https://www.amightygirl.com/who-is-dolly-parton)

There is also a fascinating biography on her life and impact on working women, "She Come By It Natural: Dolly Parton and the Women Who Lived By Her Songs," at https://www.amightygirl.com/she-come-by-it-natural

08/26/2026

We honored our beloved Dolly at StoryTime this morning with a reading of "Coat of Many Colors", and made her some pretty butterflies 🦋 💛

08/26/2026

New at the library, come check it out!

08/26/2026

The AC has been fixed! 💙

08/25/2026

A true titan of children's literacy 🦋📚

Dolly Parton believed every child deserved the chance to fall in love with a book.

Through her Imagination Library, she placed hundreds of millions of books into children’s hands and opened the door to imagination, learning, and a lifetime of reading.

Her voice was unforgettable but so was her generosity.

Today, everyone who believes in books, readers, and libraries mourns her loss. May her memory live on in every child who opens a book and discovers a bigger world.

Thank you, Dolly. We will always love you, too.

📷 Photo courtesy of dollyparton.com featuring Dolly when she launched Imagination Library in 1995