The east side of the old Pima County Courthouse, Thursday, May 3, 2013, Tucson, Ariz.

When a three-foot tall bronze statue of a nymph was returned to the Pima County Courthouse patio fountain after a cleaning, there was a bit of a controversy.

It wasn't that the little nymph was nude. It was that many at the courthouse remembered the statue a little differently before the cleaning. Some thought the nymph was cleaned in Denmark β€” meaning that a sex change had taken place.

Read on for more. From the Arizona Daily Star, August 15, 1970:

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