SHEPHERDSTOWN -- Lady Liberty stood high on the stage, as her designer, Frederic Bartholdi, placed a torch in her left hand. A more contentious moment followed, when Bartholdi elected to remove the broken chains from her right hand and place them inconspicuously beneath her feet.

Portrayed by storytellers Deborah Strahorn and Barry Mann, respectively, the presentation in Shepherdstown Presbyterian Church on Tuesday night highlighted the long path to creating the Statue of Liberty and the even longer path it took, to make her original message of "freedom for all" heard.

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