Miss Dolores Has Read To Three Generations Of Kids
For 47 years, Miss Dolores has volunteered at the Westside library's story hour. Some of the kids she reads to today are grandchildren of the kids she read to in 1978.
You won't find Miss Dolores Washington on the news. But you'll find her every Saturday morning at 10:00 AM, in the children's wing of the Westside Public Library, perched on a tiny chair, reading aloud.
She started in 1978 when her own daughter was three. Her daughter is now 50, with grandchildren of her own — and some of those great-grandchildren now sit on the rug at story hour, listening to the same voice their great-grandmothers heard.
"Reading to a child is the most patriotic thing I know how to do," Miss Dolores says. "Every kid who learns to love a book grows into a person who can imagine a better world."
In 47 years, she has missed exactly four Saturdays. Two for her own surgeries, one for a hurricane, one for her husband's funeral. She was back the following week.
Heroes don't always wear uniforms. Sometimes they wear reading glasses and a cardigan, and they show up.
