The Rainbow Minute
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Wednesday, May 23
It’s Time For “Who Said That?,” on this episode of “The Rainbow Minute.” read By: Dustin Richardson
She was born in Falmouth, Massachusetts in 1859, the daughter of a Congregational pastor. Once grown, she graduated from Wellesley College and then taught there for many years as a professor of English literature. Her yearly salary was $400, “with board and washing.”
She is remembered as the author of the words to “America the Beautiful,” and for popularizing “Mrs. Santa Claus” through her poem, “Goody Santa Claus on a Sleigh Ride.”
Her intimate partnership with Katharine Coman lasted 25 years, until Coman’s death from breast cancer. She nicknamed Coman “Joy of Life.”
She said, “So much of me died with Katharine Coman that I’m sometimes not quite sure whether I’m alive or not.”
Who said that?
It was Katharine Lee Bates, who was posthumously inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970.
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