How a college prank turned into a public art tradition
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The inflatable replica that rests on the lake’s solid surface isn’t a political statement, nor a throwback to the ending of 1969’s “Planet of the Apes,” but a decades-long tradition founded on a good laugh.
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Original Title: TIL in 1979 the campaign promise of two guys running for student government included bringing the Statue of Liberty Wisconsin. When they won, they spent $4,000 of University funds creating a replica of Lady Liberty buried up to her eyes in frozen Lake Menota