Massachusetts poet Katharine Lee Bates wrote 'America the Beautiful' after seeing the landscape from the top of Pike's Peak. Her patriotic anthem is a prayer for national unity.
The two lived together for years in an arrangement referred to during that era as a"Boston marriage."Bates traveled across the country to teach in Colorado Springs in the summer of 1893.
Landing of the Mayflower pilgrims at Plymouth Rock, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, 1620. Illustration by Howard Pyle, 1882, in"Howard Pyle's Book of the American Spirit." Artist Howard Pyle. The Pilgrims first set foot in Plymouth on Dec. 16, 1620. The passage echoes the words of another spiritual patriotic anthem, written by another Massachusetts woman,"The Battle Hymn of the Republic," by Julia Ward Howe.
She's buried in Oak Grove Cemetery in Falmouth. Katharine Lee Bates Road is a prominent thoroughfare in the center of town. Bates is honored with numerous buildings and memorials at Wellesley College, and with elementary schools in both Wellesley and Colorado Springs. CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR OUR LIFESTYLE NEWSLETTER
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