Get Your Proton Packs On, The Statue of Liberty’s Head is Opening Back Up!
This Saturday, Lady Liberty’s head will be reopened for the first time since September 11th, 2001. There are a few new stipulations that visitors can look forward to, many of which are to be suspected. Only a relative few, in small groups, specially ticketed, carefully screened and escorted by a park ranger are allowed access to the Green-petinated Copper Beauty standing in New York Harbor. Visitors to the island have dropped some 40% since the closing in 2001, but hopefully the Statue’s reopening will increase the number of visitors and bring a little patriotism back.
The official announcement was May 8th, and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar called it “a new beginning, restoring confidence in the American people, in their government and in our place in the world.” He also said that reopening the Crown “would proclaim to the world — both figuratively and literally — that the path to the light of liberty is open to all.”
My trip to Liberty Island during the summer of 2004 was quite bittersweet; being so close to the Statue, but not being able to take in view. However, in my plans to try and get to the opening of the Tim Burton exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City this fall, (and naturally let you KillerFilm cats know about it) I may finally be able to experience one of those touristy things that everyone plans on being there forever.
You may recall Lady Liberty from classics like Escape from New York, Ghostbusters II, Planet of the Apes, Mel Brooks’ History of the World Part 1, Cloverfield, and Alfred Hitchcock’s Saboteur, in addition to many other film, cartoon, and television appearances.
Source: USA Today
