Ms Liberty

Very2 short and lazy entry this is... well, I vowed to myself to at least write once a week to keep me sane.




I copied this from one of the casted info on Liberty Island –

Why is the Statue Green?
The answer is in the air... The statue’s skin is made of copper, and when copper is exposed to oxygen in the air, it undergoes a chemical reaction called oxidization. The reaction causes a fine crust or film to develop that is usually green in color. This layer protects the original metal underneath. In copper & bronze, this natural protective process is called patination. It took nearly 30 years for the statue to turn from her original copper color to the green you see today. The patination process can also be observed on buildings where copper and bronze are used for roofing and ornamentation such as the ferry dock on Liberty Island and on the roof and domes of the Immigration Station at Ellis Island...


And I can’t resist adding this up by myself haha – so what’s the big deal of visiting the statue & Ellis Island beside it being the main landmarks huh? This question goes to people like me who most of the times are history blind huhu... well, from what Juri’s learned from Hitch the movie & confirmed by the liberty cruise narrator, Ellis Island was the point of entry for immigrants from around the world to enter America. They went through health screening, and that was it. Not healthy? You’re out! That easy huh? I wish it were that easy today hehe... but considering sailing for weeks / months with thousands of people around just to get there, it must have been hard for them to maintain good health no?


Anyway, most Americans nowadays go to Ellis Island to check on their ancestors’ names and hence would figure out their roots, something like that..

OOUuu, so much for a short one huh? I better stop now!