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Quote of the Day!

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O beautiful for spacious skies
for amber waves of grain

Katharine Lee Bates

August 12, 1859: Poet Katharine Lee Bates was inspired to write her best known work, America the Beautiful, after a trip to Colorado’s Pikes Peak. The poem became a popular national anthem. She was born in Massachusetts, 154 years ago today.

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