Photos from the Film
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Bates teaching literature at Wellesley
At the edge of the Rockies
Melinda Ponder, Bates' biographer
PIkes Peak in the distance
Paula Francis, President, Wellesley College
Vida Scudder speaks at Lawrence strike
Leonard Miele, author, VOICE OF THE TIDE
Leah Witherow, Colorado Springs historian
The Wellesley College creed
Katharine Coman in play (center)
Stephen Kinzer, author THE TRUE FLAG
Map of Colorado Springs in the late 1800s
Teddy Roosevelt and grandson Kermit
Katharine Lee Bates grave, Falmouth MA
Woman suffrage demonstration
Bates and her friend Hattie Gifford, Falmouth
boys can be "the greatest bores in existance"
Drama at Lake Waban
a family in the tenements
boarding the ship for England, 1890
A note on the classsroom door
close-up of the note
Bates' trip to Colorado Springs
The Garden of the Gods
"thine alabaster cities gleam," Chicago 1893
Cripple Creek, Colorado, 1893
"May God thy Gold refine..."
The birth of American imperialism, 1898
"Confirm thy soul in self-control"
anti-Spanish propaganda, 1898
The Battle of Manila Bay, 1898
Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders, 1898
The Lawrence Textile Strike, 1912
"How Long?"--Bates' World War I poem
mourning the death of Katharine Coman
Bates' poems honoring Katharine Coman
factory children, early 1900s
Tobacco workers, early 1900s
Katharine Coman
"And crown thy good with Brotherhood"
sorrow over the Philippines war
All four verses of AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL
"Purple mountain majesties..."