Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Lady Liberty, meet Laddy Liberty. A Georgia-based group is suggesting that the Statue of Liberty have a male counterpart.

Rodney Cook of the National Monuments Foundation in Atlanta says guy liberty would be about the same size as the one in New York Harbor. The base would house a museum about South Carolina's role in the Revolution and Civil War.

Cook tells the Post and Courier of Charleston the new liberty statue could cost as much as $150 million. Most of that money would have to come from private sources.