Honor The Fallen with Katharine Lee Bates, “America The Beautiful”
Posted in Patriotic on Aug 11th, 2007
Honor The Fallen
The words are by Katharine Lee Bates, an English professor at Wellesley College. In 1893, Bates had taken a train trip to Colorado Springs, Colorado, to teach a short summer school session at Colorado College, and several of the sights on her trip found their way into her poem:
The World’s Columbian Exposition in […]