Two years have passed since the statue of President William McKinley was taken off his pedestal on the Arcata Plaza in a quiet pre-dawn operation and, since that morning, the bronze work has remained out of public view.
After being placed on a cushion of tires in the back of a flatbed truck for the 2,600-mile trip due east to McKinley s longtime Ohio home back in March of 2019, barely a trickle of information has been forthcoming from the Timken Foundation of Canton, the official procurer of noted artist Haig Patigian s sculpture. The statue has been relocated to Ohio and the foundation has restored it at its own expense, Executive Director Mark Scheffler said in statement this week, responding to