STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Good morning, I'm Steve Inskeep.</s>STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: New York joins Philadelphia as a city that makes up its own history. Ride a horse-drawn carriage in Philadelphia and the driver will give you bogus stories of the revolution. Now New York is the scene of a monument to a ferry disaster. The sculpture depicts the time a passenger ferry boat was dragged down by a giant octopus, which never happened. The artist says he first thought of this prank when telling fake history stories to an 11-year-old.</s>STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: It's MORNING EDITION.
The sculpture depicts that time a passenger ferry was dragged down by a giant octopus — which never happened. The artist says he conceived of the prank while telling fake history to an 11-year-old.