TV Series Revives Statue of Liberty Gender Question

Debuting tonight at 6 p.m.

The headline of an article this weekend by New York Post deputy TV editor Andrea Morabito reads, “Is Lady Liberty Actually a Dude?” Meanwhile, this morning on Fox & Friends, one of the hosts kicked off a guest segment by similarly asking, “Is Lady Liberty actually a man?”

It all tracks back to journalist Elizabeth Mitchell’s acclaimed book Liberty Torch: The Great Adventure to Build the Statue of Liberty, published exactly two years ago. Tonight, on the debut episode of Discovery Family Channel’s Secrets of America’s Favorite Places, Mitchell revisits one of her most memorable findings involving the statue’s sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi.

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