Posted on 07/02/2010 9:18:54 PM PDT by JLS
In 1893, a Massachusetts professor called Katharine Lee Bates was giving a series of summer lectures on English literature at Colorado College, in Colorado Springs. “One day,” she recalled, “some of the other teachers and I decided to go on a trip to 14,000-foot Pikes Peak. We hired a prairie wagon. Near the top we had to leave the wagon and go the rest of the way on mules. I was very tired. But when I saw the view, I felt great joy. All the wonder of America seemed displayed there.”
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Happy 4th of July Steyn ping. Steyn tell us of the writing of America the Beautiful.
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For my money, the reference version of “America The Beautiful” was the one sung by the great Ray Charles at the ‘84 GOP convention. An amazing performance.
Happy Independence Day 2010!
Here is the Mormon Tabernacle version: America the Beautiful
Inspiring!
Katherine Lee Bates
great read ping!
Arnold Friberg's 1975 painting “Prayer at Valley Forge,” depicting Pres
George Washington beside his horse, kneeling in praying in a winter’s forest.
Not that Kathy Bates!
Thanks for the ping!
Yet another day where free men and women can still vote and decide how to an extent their government can best serve the community interests.
Circulating around in an e-mail:
These are 5 of the most logical sentences you’ll ever read:
You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity.
What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.
The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.
When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is the beginning of the end of any nation.
You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.
Perhaps the Democrats should read that chain letter. Oh wait. They are not capable of understanding how quickly this nation is fading into the horizon. Either that or they truly are die in the wool true commie/socialist all.
YOU BETCHA.
There is a statue of Katharine Lee Bates on the green in Falmouth Mass.
An independent ping!
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