RE: Definitive Answer

["Larry A. Lovering" <lloverin@genuity.net>]

On top of Pikes Peak in Colorado is a plaque commemorating the authoring of
"America The Beautiful" by Katherine Lee Bates.  She was inspired to write
it after a trip in a prairie wagon to the top of the mountain in 1893.

The City of Colorado Springs has alternatively labeled Pikes Peak as
"America's Mountain."

-Larry

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> Subject: Definitive Answer
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>
> "God Bless America" was written in 1918 by Irving Berlin, who, by
> the way, was born in Russia.  HIs family moved to New York when
> he was young.  He's known for "Easter Parade," "White Christmas"
> and other famous songs, but nobody really knew "God Bless
> America" for about 20 years until Kate Smith sang it on the radio
> on Armistice Day in 1938.
>
> "America The Beautiful" was written in Wellesley in 1892 by
> Katherine Lee Bates.  Bates was born in Falmouth.  She moved to
> Wellesley in her teens where she went to college and lived her
> adult life.  She was the English Department Head at Wellesley College.
>
> The Katherine Lee Bates elementary school is on Elmwood Road in
> Wellesley.  In the lobby is the framed original lyric of "America
> The Beautiful" hand-written by Bates.  So what did she actually write?
>
> "Purple Mountain Majesties"
>
> Your witness.
>