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• Born in Massachusetts in 1859, Katharine Lee Bates grew up to become a professor of English literature at Wellesley College. She was also a prolific writer, authoring many books, articles, poems, and stories. • In 1893 she traveled to the Rocky Mountains where she spent the summer teaching at Colorado College. One day, she joined a group of people headed for the top of 14,000-foot Pikes Peak. They traveled by wagons, mules, and foot. • Katharine was exhausted by the time she reached the top, but the view was magnificent. Inspired by the sight of the mountains, plains, and skies, she composed a poem celebrating the beauty of America. • Two years later, her poem was published in a magazine called “The Congregationalist” for their Fourth of July edition, and it reached an even wider audience when it was reprinted in “The Boston Evening Transcript” in 1904. • Meanwhile, a New Jersey musician named Samuel Ward had written a hymn called “Materna.” The song’s first line was, ‘O Mother dear, Jerusalem’ and the tune was metrically identical to Katharine’s poem. It was natural for Katharine’s poem and Samuel’s tune to match up, and soon people were singing the new song. • By the time Katharine died in 1929, the song whose lyrics she had penned had become a national favorite. • Many people approached Congress asking for this song to be chosen as America’s national anthem because it is simple, beautiful, and easy to sing. Even though “The Star Spangled Banner” was chosen in 1931, many people still feel that Katharine and Samuel’s song would make a better national anthem. The song is called “America the Beautiful.”
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