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The Life of Katharine Lee Bates

Name: The Life of Katharine Lee Bates
Start: 2019-03-31T14:00:00-04:00
End: 2019-03-31T15:00:00-04:00
Location: Wellesley Free Library, Washington St.

March 31, 2019 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Free

In honor of Women’s History Month, Melinda Ponder, Professor of English at Pine Manor College and a Wellesley College graduate, will discuss the life of Katharine Lee Bates. She will focus, in particular, on Bates’ life and academic career here in the Town of Wellesley including her famous work “America the Beautiful”.

Event is part of the Wellesley Historical Society Lecture Series, in partnership with the Wellesley Main Library.