The Writer's Almanac - Sunday, August 12, 2018 - a podcast by Prairie Home Productions

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Today is the birthday of the person who wrote the lines: "O beautiful for spacious skies, / For amber waves of grain, / For purple mountain majesties / Above the fruited plain!" That's Katharine Lee Bates, born in Falmouth, Massachusetts on Cape Cod in 1859.