COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KKTV) - “America the beautiful.” Not everyone knows that those words and that famous song were inspired by the mountain right in our backyard! When Katherine Lee Bates ...

America the Beautiful: Quotation by Katharine Lee Bates at the Veterans Memorial in Memorial Park, Provo, Utah. Credit: Wikimedia Commons One mild October evening in 2001, my ABC News pals Kayce ...

“America the Beautiful” by Katharine Lee Bates is as much critique as celebration, writes documentary filmmaker John de Graaf. While Bates’ first verse celebrates America’s beauty, the ...