"Should you ever take a New York helicopter cruise and pass over the majestic Statue of Liberty, pay special attention.
"Lady
Liberty's steel-frame-supported copper body stands 305 feet above sea
level. As your helicopter circles closer, look down at the top of
Liberty's head and see how every strand of hair has been painstakingly
formed in careful and minute detail, just as is every area of the
statue's gown and body. That delicate metallic coiffure on the top of
her head undoubtedly required many hours of extra weeks at Auguste
Bartholdi's shop in Paris, weeks that the great sculptor could have
saved, because so far as he knew, no one would ever see the top of Lady
Liberty's head!
"The Statue of Liberty was dedicated on October
28, 1886 by President Grover Cleveland. There were no airplanes in 1886!
The Wright brothers wouldn't fly until seventeen years later. Bartholdi
was well aware that only a few brave sea gulls would probably ever look
down on the statue from above, and certainly no one would ever know if
the strands of hair had not been meticulously shaped and polished. And
yet, the master craftsman took no shortcuts. Every strand of hair, every
curl, is in place." - Anonymous
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