'Knuckleheads' celebrate Statue of Liberty on Susquehanna River
He built it out of plywood and old venetian blinds
in a friend’s garage in Harrisburg.
Examining a photo from the
middle-of-the-night deed,
you expect to spot beer cans.
The gang of 20-somethings had
just hoisted Lady Liberty onto
her perch atop an old railroad pier
in the middle of the Susquehanna River.
Yet no beers were cracked until later.
"We were 32 feet in the air,
and it was pitch black, and we
had to be very careful,” says Gene Stilp,
the ringleader of what seemed more
stunt than enduring act of patriotism.
http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2011/07/knuckleheads_celebrate_25th_an.html
He built it out of plywood and old venetian blinds
in a friend’s garage in Harrisburg.
Examining a photo from the
middle-of-the-night deed,
you expect to spot beer cans.
The gang of 20-somethings had
just hoisted Lady Liberty onto
her perch atop an old railroad pier
in the middle of the Susquehanna River.
Yet no beers were cracked until later.
"We were 32 feet in the air,
and it was pitch black, and we
had to be very careful,” says Gene Stilp,
the ringleader of what seemed more
stunt than enduring act of patriotism.
http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2011/07/knuckleheads_celebrate_25th_an.html
