I. Introduction
A. Lead--It was a Sunday in the fall of 1971 when fourteen-year old Dick Woolf and friends, while walking through Island Park of Fargo, North Dakota, stumbled upon a dismembered arm. The arm and torch of Fargo's replica Statue of Liberty had been broken off and was lying on the ground. The once proud monument, intended to "remind all the people of the continuing vigilance needed to protect America's freedom," was now subject to the antics of a group of teenagers. Woolf claims he and his friends "posed with [the arm]...and chased each other with it and then decided to take it along home." Because Woolf later threw part of the arm in a trash bin, the statue remained in a state of disrepair for years to come.
B. Thesis--Fargo's replica of the Statue of Liberty--donated by the Lions Club and Boy Scouts as a part of a patriotic "Crusade to Strengthen the Arm of Liberty" in response to the threat of communism during the Cold War--has been repaired and relocated, and continues to reflect the ever-changing, many-layered meaning of the original Lady Liberty.

II. Background
A. Historical monuments and collective memory
B. The memory group(s) behind your monument
1. Boy Scouts of America
2. Lions Club

III. Upstream: The Changing Idea of the Statue of Liberty
A. Original meaning of the statue of liberty
B. Meaning at the outset of the Cold War
C. Meaning in 1986: 100-year anniversary

IV. Establishment of the monument—
A. J.P. Whitaker of Kansas City
B. Boy Scouts of America project
C. Lions Club of Fargo, ND -the two organizations donate the statue to the city as part of the broader movement
D. Placement in Island Park, June of 1952

V. Downstream: Interpretation and subsequent developments pertaining to your monument
A. Fall, 1971—statue has been victim of repeated vandalism, loses arm/torch.
B. 1984-largely forgotten by the public
C. 1986-remembered with the 100-year anniversary of the original in NY
D. Restoration and placement in current location—how this signifies a change in national and local sentiment—perhaps the meaning of the statue itself has changed.

VI. Conclusion
A. Confirm the thesis--will when I can
B. Relate your findings to the historical literature
C. Explain your findings to the memory group(s)