The Statue of Liberty has become an American icon. It’s a colossal beacon of freedom welcoming the poor, the tired, the huddled masses, the homeless and the tempest-tost, as the inscription says, to American shores where it stands in the New York Harbor.
More than 2,000 miles away in the Beehive State, there may soon be a companion statue looming 305 feet high as well, known as the Statue of Responsibility.
Steve Cohen, president and CEO of the Statue of Responsibility Foundation, sat down with the Deseret News at the Little America Hotel to share how the foundation is inching closer to securing a location at the Point of the Mountain in Draper.
Read more about what the statue means and what it would take to construct it.