lee iacocca led movement and raised over $500 million to restore the statue of liberty, and a good portion of that money also went to the restoration of ellis island. ellis island opened up in 1990. so what's up there today, the torch is more like the original design. it is solid copper lined with a little thin layer of gold. when the statue was first completed and dedicated, the lighthouse board was in control of the operation in 1886. in 1902, the war department took over. then in 1924, president calvin coolidge declared the statue of liberty a national monument. and in 1933, the statue of liberty was added to the national parks service system and the national parks service has been the managing operation of the statue of liberty since then. i've worked at a lot of different parks. and our job here is easy. our goal as interpreters is to connect people to the resource. and i've worked at replica forts and lighthouses that we move. but here at the statue of liberty in ellis, it's easy. rangers pointing to things, all you have to do is to point at this wonderful work of art, and it's an em