Flowers: During patriotic season, searching for the right America

America the Beautiful - The American Scholar

On the Fourth of July in 1895, a church weekly in Boston, The Congregationalist, published Katharine Lee Bates’s poem “America.” The paper described it as having “the true patriotic ring.” Bates was 35, the daughter and granddaughter of Massachusetts Congregational ministers, and an English professor at Wellesley College, outside Boston. A couple of years before, on her first travels out west, she had spent a few weeks teaching at a summer schoo…

Flowers: During patriotic season, searching for the right America

There are four holidays that occur in quick succession and symbolize our love of country: Memorial Day, D-Day, Flag Day and July Fourth.