on Discovery Family channel, experts delve into the national monument’s long-forgotten history.Īlthough the commonly accepted story has it that French sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi’s mother was his inspiration for the great statue’s face, on the show, author and journalist Elizabeth Mitchell reveals an alternative theory, which she uncovered while researching her book “ Liberty’s Torch: The Great Adventure To Build the Statue of Liberty.” In the premiere of “Secrets of America’s Favorite Places,” airing Sunday at 6 p.m. But it still holds a few secrets know-it-all New Yorkers may not know. The iconic statue has been standing in New York Harbor as a symbol of American freedom since 1886. Jean-Charles Bartholdi (below) may have been the model for the Statue of Liberty, which his brother, sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, created.
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