Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island

[Seattlecarnut]

Fascinating history. I would like to visit Ellis Island one day to find out where my where my great-great grandparents were from.

[kensington25]

@Seattlecarnut You must visit. It is a fascinating place :)

[Seattlecarnut]

@kensington25 As soon as I've saved up enough money to do so, I will do that. I'd especially like to visit the south end of the Island, the hospital.

[kensington25]

@Seattlecarnut I would love to go back there :)

[Seattlecarnut]

@kensington25 I'd definitely like to visit there. Where are you from?

[kensington25]

@Seattlecarnut I am from England but have been living in Australia for the past four and a half years.

[Seattlecarnut]

@kensington25 Those are other places I'd like to visit. Whereabouts in England are you from, and where in Australia do you currently live?

[kensington25]

@Seattlecarnut I am from London and live in Sydney. Where are you from?

[Seattlecarnut]

@kensington25 I'm from Seattle, Washington USA. I got to visit London a few years ago, while I was visiting England with my stepdad.

[kensington25]

@Seattlecarnut I hear Seattle is a great city. I hope you enjoyed London :)

[Seattlecarnut]

@kensington25 I was born in Seattle, and I lived for most of my life in Kirkland, a suburb just outside Seattle. Seattle is a fun city. London was one of my favourite places to visit whilst in England. We also visited Plymouth, Stratford-upon-Avon (another favourite). We visited Edinburgh, and Cardiff.

[kensington25]

@Seattlecarnut There are many things I miss about the UK. I love visiting the USA and would love to go to Canada one day. My brother in law is from Vancouver.

[Seattlecarnut]

@kensington25 Hopefully, you'll get to return to England for a visit. If you get to visit the USA, there are so many places to visit, you won't be able to visit all of them in one visit. I got to visit Vancouver, Canada a few years ago. I enjoyed it alot. I also visited Victoria, Canada a couple years ago.

[kensington25]

@Seattlecarnut I have been to the USA a few times but there are many more places in America I want to see. My favourites so far are New York City and Washington DC. I definitely hope to visit England this year :)

[Seattlecarnut]

@kensington25 I'd love to visit New York City. I'd also love to visit Washington D.C.

[kensington25]

@Seattlecarnut They aew amazing cities. I also loved New England.

[Seattlecarnut]

@kensington25 I'd also love to visit New England. There are so many places I'd like to visit here in this country.

[kensington25]

@Seattlecarnut So much to see and do in your beautiful country :)

[Seattlecarnut]

@kensington25 I so agree. So far, I've only visited the western states, Oregon, Idaho, California, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wyoming.

[kensington25]

@Seattlecarnut I would also love to visit the deep south. Places like Alabama and New Orleans.

[Seattlecarnut]

@kensington25 So would I. There are so many places I'd like to visit, here in the USA and Canada. I'd eventually like to visit the whole world.

[kensington25]

@Seattlecarnut Me too :)

[Seattlecarnut]

@kensington25 I'm not from England, and I only visited England just once (and hopefully, I'll get to visit again soon), but you may have noticed how I spelled "favourite". I spelt favourite (among other spelling) long before I visited England. Some people I've emailed have asked me why I would spell like that. I usually tell them because I like doing that. I like doing things differently from what is "normal", you know?

[soymiguelalejandro23]

thanks for this very moving video! :O)

[kensington25]

@soymiguelalejandro23 Thank you so much for watching :)

[GeorgeChar95]

Thank you king cause I am a Greek but I am a us visitor and been there yesterday lol

[kensington25]

@kingzxcvbnm1 Thank you for the information which is much appreciated :)

[pumasporvida]

I always imagined the statue a bit bigger , but all the same great video....I am taking my daughter and son in June to New York and the statue is in our agenda..=)

[kensington25]

@pumasporvida Have a great trip :)

[pumasporvida]

@kensington25 Thanx I know it is going to be a trip of a lifetime for my kids! Thanx for the insight on the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island..=)

[kensington25]

@pumasporvida You're very welcome. Have a great trip :)

[Electivecp]

LOL in april i had a field trip to ellis island and we passed really really really reallly close to the statue of liberty!

[kensington25]

@Electivecp Great place :)

[Seattlecarnut]

I've never visited the Statue of Liberty, nor Ellis Island. I'm glad to see some people have camcorders to shoot their tour of the two places.

[kensington25]

@Seattlecarnut Thanks so much :)

[Stonehenge1492]

Than you for this nice video. I visited Ellis Island long before it was restored, and seeing this makes me want to go back. My Irish aunt and uncles came through there so I'd love to view the interactive systems to look them up like you did with William.

[kensington25]

Thank you so much for watching. It really is a fascinating and inspiring place :)

[ATribeCalledJerk1]

where goin to ellis island on monday so thanks for giving me an idea of how it looks

[kensington25]

It is an amazing place. Have a good time :)

[kensington25]

They are awesome :)

[MrFlorian126]

how come when i went on the ferry they dident let me go inside Elis island thats just rude and i dident and plus theres a sunken boat next to elis island ive seen it but anyways nice vid

[kensington25]

Thanks so much and hopefully you will go there next time :)

[maplebanks]

there is a song on my site called isle of hope, sang by the mulkerin brothers,it is about ellis island

[kensington25]

Awesome and thanks for the link :)

[kewlboy567]

Give me your tired, your poor,

Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,

The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.

Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,

I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

Quote near the Statue

[kensington25]

A beautiful quote :)

[badturkali]

i would want to see it

i like new york from home alone movie

[kensington25]

Great movi and great city :)

[johntravoltaaaaa]

I went there last year It's fun

[kensington25]

I love it :)

[natexd45]

cool video

[kensington25]

Thank you my friend :)

[TolsmaLMC]

Kensington25, thank you for posting this. The quote from the Polish immigrant in 1913 made me think of my great-grandmother. She was from Poland and did not want to come to the United States. She didn't want to leave everything behind. Her husband had already come here, but she stayed. Her priest told her that she must stay with her husband so she came to America in Aug 1913. Soon after that World War 1 began. Then later World War 2. Thank God she came here. She lived until the early 1960s

[kensington25]

Thank you so much for watching and for sharing your grandmother's experience. I really appreciate it :)

[JexPAuk]

The statue offered by France was made by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi(french sculptor).There are 5 smaller replicas in France,2 in Paris,1 in Colmar,1 in Roybon,and 1 in Saint-Cyr sur mer(french riviera)./U r welcome,thk U Will.

[JexPAuk]

Nice video William!The metallic skeleton/structure of Statue of Liberty was another masterpiece by Gustave Eiffel,the father of the Tour Eiffel(of course)/Hope to go& visit NY next year.Cheers mate!

[kensington25]

Thanks you so much. Have an amazing time :)

[Cheekydogextreme1]

I have gone there before but not when the crown was open, i went in 2006 or maybe 2005, i doubt 2007 but maybe that too, anyways i love this!!!

[kensington25]

Hi there, thanks so much. It is an awesome place with an awesome history :)

[Cheekydogextreme1]

I am going there in August when the crown is open, i can't wait to go up in the crown!!! I am still upset because the torch will still be closed forever :( Anyways i love this video!!!

[petrolitis]

Very symphatic Guy. I've been there at Mai 2004. I was deeply impressed. Thank you Kensington. Greetings from Switzerland:o)

[kensington25]

Thank you so much. It is an amazing place. By the way I studies in Switzerland as a boy in Glion near Montreux.

[therenyboys]

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[ActiveAtlantic]

Nice video man!

[kensington25]

Thank you so much. I really appreciate it :)

[Cta2006]

The copper that the statue is made of came from a mine in Norway and the structual framework ( that makes the statue stand in any wind ) was engineered by a Norwegian immigrant

[LOVEVMK4life]

is it fun??? because im going there for a feild trip on may 14th

[kensington25]

Definitely. Have a brilliant trip :)

[JohnF30Music]

im goin there in June!

[kensington25]

Have a great trip :)

[FinickyFiend]

My friend told me that the statue of liberty used to be the same color as a penny...Does anyone know if this is true?????

[piquant37]

It may be true because it's made of copper that turns green with oxidation.

[shadowkitty56]

-This was written for the statue and for (especially) Jews fleeing pogroms in Russia: the Czar basically was systematically murdering them, and at the time nobody gave a damn about them: then, as now, they still have a home in America and are doing just fine (sometimes even better than their Israeli counterparts.)

[shadowkitty56]

"Give me your tired, your poor,

Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,

The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.

Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,

I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

[zenbrenzz]

shadow..they might as well remove that quote from the statue...the US sure doesn't want to help any poor or huddled masses or wretched refuse in 2009. It should now read: "We've got ours, F you"

[poodlepink]

that's what I'm saying. I'm American and I wonder why America doesn't seem to stand for this anymore. Also, does it not say 'tempest-tossed' ? As an American I talk to others who say the illegal immigrants need to be kicked out. They say illegals should go through the due process. I don't even know what the process is, so I wonder if they don't either.

The terrorists of 9-11 didn't cross the border. There's a lot of fear about the borders now because 9-11. If we're all humble, there's room.

[zenbrenzz]

Thanks, poodle...I wonder how all these 'good' people feel about knowing most Latinos are here to avoid starvation in their native land?? To feed my kids, I would have done anything..if that meant entering the US illegally...sorry.

Trade agreements have a lot to do with the deplorable conditions now prevalent in Mexico..slave labor, farmers not able to make a living, etc.

Demand these NAFTA CAFTA plans be destroyed, if you don't like sharing the US.

[poodlepink]

I want to invite people to see a movie I saw recently called,'Maria Full of Grace'. I want America to be a country with open borders where everyone can find refuge and their own dreams. I can't imagine people would want to destroy it. But if they have their family's unjust death in their mind. Still, Americans mostly haven't realized. I guess we are to blame. These days people are becoming aware and taking sides. Our government has become so powerful as to arrest us! Some military say no we wont

[shadowkitty56]

Don't count on it....something tells me that position cannot be maintained indefinitely.

[shadowkitty56]

7) I know my country is far from perfect. I don't want it to be. (What does an American become when he can't laugh at himself?) I am proud of many things that it has done, but I know it still has things to fix. (That's sort of the point of democracy.) However, what I am proudest of is written in a poem on the Statue:

[shadowkitty56]

6) I can become president one day my self. I believe a woman becoming the head of state is likely: the rules for the presidency state I must be 35 or older, I must be a natural born citizen, and that I've lived here for fourteen years or more. In other words, it doesn't matter that I am a girl..and in practice, it won't matter to the other half of the population (the men) that I am a lady. We're not first to get to that point, but we're real close: women are present at most levels of society!

[shadowkitty56]

Without those three amendments, Barack Obama would have had no prayer of taking the oath of office next Tuesday.

A written Constitution also enables me to point to a document and say to the govt. "You can't do that!!" There is less chance of an obscure and forgotten law overruling me in court if the government has broken its promises to me. They cannot, for example, hold me in jail for long periods without charging me with a crime (this is why Gitmo is making most Americans very angry.)

[shadowkitty56]

The Constitution is also able to be changed, or amended: when it was first written long ago, it was written by men smart enough to realize something all men in power should know: they don't know everything and that mistakes are easy to make. However, they DID leave a way to correct this. (For example, the 13th Amendment freed all blacks, the 14th established civil rights, and the 15th denied government the authority to deny former slaves rights.

[shadowkitty56]

5) I am thankful for a written Constitution. This document amounts to a contract between government and people and is freely distributed to anyone who wants to read it, even to children. My country was founded on a simple principle: the power of rulers comes from the just consent of the governed. If this is violated, then the governed have the right to rebel as a last resort. We have the right to petition the gov't when we are otherwise unhappy with it: we don't need permission for this.

[shadowkitty56]

The stories of my great-grandparents have taught me NEVER to take the freedom to worship for granted. No government official can legally interfere with a priest preaching: they can't force a priest to testify in court if a man tells him something in the Confession booth because it violates the right of the accused. They also taught me that there is value in forcing a government to listen to you, even if, as a last resort, at gunpoint.

[applesweeter]

I have a question:

What is the defination of freedom and liberty for American???

What is the values behind???

Why is it important for the success of U.S.?

(I live in Hong Kong which is a very freedom region. However, I would hope to know what the American think about them)

[kensington25]

Good question. I am English and live in Australia so I do not know the answer. Maybe some Americans know. Hong Kong is a lovely place and I have some videos from there :)

[shadowkitty56]

I might be able to answer: I was born and raised here in the U.S., my great-grandparents were immigrants themselves (some branches of the family didn't come until the 1950's I might add.) I cannot speak for all of us, but I can try to speak for myself...

[shadowkitty56]

You ask a broad question, but here are certain freedoms I treasure:

1) Freedom to have as many children as I want with the government having no say in the matter AT ALL.

2) I am a woman. My great grandmother was born in a time when women could not run for office, could not own their own property, and if they got a divorce, risked never seeing their children again (father was the head of the house, women were expected to obey their husbands.) The history of the world has not been kind to girls.

[shadowkitty56]

I am, thus, thankful that I can vote and have a say in my government. I am also thankful that American society has tried to right a historical wrong so that if my husband beats me, he risks going to jail, and if I divorce him, he cannot withold money or resources from me or the children and I will not be thought of as a failure it takes TWO for a marriage to end. I am not expected to obey my husband or his family, but I can desire mutual respect.

[kensington25]

Thank you so much for the info shadowkitty. I really do appreciate it.

[gtsexylilmama]

hello i got a question i really want to know what does the STATUE Of Liberty Mean?

[kensington25]

It commemorates the centennial of the signing of the United States Declaration of Independence and was given to the United States to represent the friendship established during the American Revolution.

[shadowkitty56]

3) I am able, if I want, to tell the President of the U.S. to shut up to his face. I risk no penalty for making fun of him (which I do often) and the press cannot legally censor me. A lot has been written about the Iraqi man with the shoe: I have heard and seen much worse screamed at President Bush at home. No matter how inflammatory the words, no matter who it targets, I am able to speak my mind.

[shadowkitty56]

4) I can practice my religion without fear. I am a Catholic. My great-grandparents were born in Ireland, and they lived long enough to hand down some chilling stories to me: they told what it was like to be a Catholic worshipping under the grace of His Majesty for their parents and they told tales of black and tan soldiers stealing food from their tables when they had little money to replace it and couldn't throw them out (a gun was the only way they could have told them to get off the land.)

[coolman123erd]

your welcome

[coolman123erd]

thanks for telling me how much you have to pay!

[shadowkitty56]

Oh, and if anyone is interested: Immigration to the U.S. today is approaching totals not known since the 1920's. Who knows-another Ellis Island may need to be opened up along the border with Mexico (so many from Latin America) and another in Calfornia/New York (big numbers from Asia.)

[kensington25]

Thanks so much for the info. Immigration has always fascinated me.

[shadowkitty56]

And weather, right now fascinates me-Alas, it is winter on the East Coast of the U.S., and we are due for another snowstorm...(sigh). My kingdom for Bondi Beach!!

[coolman123erd]

nice presentation and do you have to pay to go there? and if you do how much?

[shadowkitty56]

To get into the statue itself, yes, you do. (Also note: this is an activity best reserved for warm weather!! DON'T GO when it is April and raining!!)

[shadowkitty56]

oops, I should say I meant to get on the ferry it is $12.00 for the day; the whole thing is a National Monument. To get there, you need to leave from Battery Park at the southern end of Manhattan Island. WATCH THE SIGNS: DON'T GET ON THE STATEN ISLAND FERRY!!

[kensington25]

Thanks so much and Shadowkitty is right with the details. You can do both islands as part of a package which I would recommend but if you have only time for one then I would choose Ellis Island which is fascinating.

[cumbas]

nice video and good presentation and true historical informations

5***** for me ^^

[kensington25]

Thanks buddy. I really appreciate that :)

[llBrandxNewll]

Was just there on a field trip for my school on monday =D

Amazing place.

[kensington25]

I am so glad you had a good time :) A lot of history there.

[cannisterkid]

Has the statue been reopened again or something? >_> The last time I climbed it was when I was four. My brother was never there and we're both New Yorkers. It's kind of sad.

[kensington25]

Yes you can climb it at certain times if you book in advance. It is a fascinating place.

[cannisterkid]

Thanks.

And I agree.

[brianlol1]

im going new york this saturday :O --november 1st.. with my skl lol :|

[kensington25]

Have a great trip :)

[grof2]

good, thank you for posting this.

[kensington25]

My plaesure and thanks for watching :)

[Tsuzyoko]

I'm going to New York City in November and am going to the Statue of Liberty. I can't wait.

[kensington25]

You will have an amazing trip. So much to see and do :)

[kensington25]

:) Thanks. We British honestly do love the French. There are rather a lot of us British immigrants :)

[vivaladil]

that thing got built again, i saw it get its head chomped of.

[saintfletcher]

OMG "A gift from the French people". This sounds extraordinary comming from the British accent. Good heavens. All those British immigrants. I wonder if they'll take over the place. Awesome 5* Blessings +^+^+ The Saint