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welcome to the good news ride home for Wednesday, June 17th, 2020.

I'm Jackson Bird.

The Statue of Liberty arrived in the U.S. on this day in 1885, a look at its original

intended meaning.

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ago. Here is your daily dose of good news. On this day in history, June 17th in 1885, the Statue of Liberty arrived in New York

Harbor in 350 individual pieces that then had to be assembled over the following year

before being finished and dedicated in 1886 by President Grover Cleveland.

Now a long-standing symbol of immigration, the Statue of Liberty was originally intended to

celebrate the abolition of slavery. In fact, Ellis Island, where many immigrants passed through

around the turn of the century, didn't open until 1892, a full six years after the Statue of Liberty's

dedication ceremony. And that famous Emma Lazarus poem, Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor,

your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the plaque of that poem wasn't added until

1903, though the poem itself was actually written 20 years prior to that to help raise money for the

construction of the statue. But what's the original story here? Quoting the Washington Post,

the monument which draws four and a half million visitors a year, was first imagined by a man

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