Welcome to the history tricks, where any resemblance to a boring old history lesson is purely coincidental.

Hello and welcome to the show. This year, 2021, 135 years after the Statue of Liberty was unveiled.

There's another statue coming. It's actually probably here when you're listening to this.

She's nicknamed Little

Sister. She was created in 2009, coming in it a little over nine feet tall, about a thousand pounds,

and one 16th the size of the Big Sister, the original Statue of Liberty. This replica of the Statue of Liberty was cast from a 3D scan of Frederick Bartoldi's

original plaster prototype.

She has been living in Paris at the National Museum of Arts and Crafts, but from July

1st through the 5th, the two statues will stand face to face with each other,

Little Sister on Ellis Island, Lady Liberty on Liberty Island. And then Little Sister will make her

trip down to Washington, D.C., where she'll be installed at the French Ambassador's residence,

arriving for Bastille Day on July 14th of this year. She's going to be on display

there for 10 years, so I hope we can get to see her. We'll link you up to an article in the show

notes with a really cool time-lapsed video of the packing up of the little sister statue.

But as we're celebrating these two statues,

these two lady liberties,

we're going to travel back a little bit in time this week to our 2018 coverage of the Statue of Liberty.

On with the show.

And here's your 30-second summary.

She was born among silverware, paid for with nickel, dressed in copper, and held up by an iron framework and the hopes and dreams of generations of Americans.

Not the end.

Let's talk about the Statue of Liberty.

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