The Statue of Immigration

Ed Reif with the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor

Emigrants or Immigrants · Huddled Masses

The Statue of Immigration

The skyline was steel, concrete and glass. The meaning was something else: liberty becoming personal.

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The Call

Arrival Through Liberty

I came to America last week as an expat.

You know, on a Disney cruise ship, through the Statue of Liberty. And I saw that skyline, not just as a representation of steel and concrete and glass, but as really the bedrock of the American Dream.

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Threshold

The Statue of Personal Liberty

It has become the statue of my personal liberty. We don't call it the statue of immigration, we call it the statue of liberty.

Lady Liberty is stepping forward. She is meant to be carrying the torch of liberty from the USA to the rest of the world.

New York City field photograph from June 2012 See Image
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Foreign Land

Empire State of Mind

Steve Mars and Ed Reif in New York City See Image
With Steve Mars in NYC today.

Jay Z expresses his personal feelings about everyday life in NYC.

“Statue of Liberty, long live the World Trade”

“Long live the Kingdome, I'm from the Empire St. that's New York”

The black and white opening slide show captures the upper-crust landmarks that make Manhattan famous, a far cry from the Marcy Projects that he once rapped about, but more or less expected from the self-described new Sinatra.

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The Elixir

Liberty Is a Direction

The Statue of Liberty is not only something you arrive at. It is something you carry forward.

Closing Transmission

We call it the Statue of Liberty because the journey is larger than arrival.