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What does the grand green gulled lady with the oh-so-fine patina famously proclaim?
"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she with silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses, your herring gulls, your black-backed gulls and, yes, your Bonaparte's too (after all, she is French) all yearning to breathe free"
The great copper statue dedicated to liberty (La Liberté éclairant le monde, or Liberty Enlightening the World) greets all to America since 1886, and as my friend Wayne discovered on a recent visit to the "City that never sleeps," sometimes she has a gull helping her welcome the huddled masses.
The female figure, cloaked in green robes, represents Libertas the Roman goddess of freedom.
What a view! What a country. Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, oh my!
To that end: Happy Memorial Day weekend.
Thanks, Wayne.
"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she with silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses, your herring gulls, your black-backed gulls and, yes, your Bonaparte's too (after all, she is French) all yearning to breathe free"
The great copper statue dedicated to liberty (La Liberté éclairant le monde, or Liberty Enlightening the World) greets all to America since 1886, and as my friend Wayne discovered on a recent visit to the "City that never sleeps," sometimes she has a gull helping her welcome the huddled masses.
The female figure, cloaked in green robes, represents Libertas the Roman goddess of freedom.
What a view! What a country. Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, oh my!
To that end: Happy Memorial Day weekend.
Thanks, Wayne.
- Photos by Wayne Mallinger.
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