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
CANTON Nothing can turn a gloomy, uneventful Saturday in January around like a pile of food from beloved landmark Kennedy s Bar-B-Que.
Kennedy s, at 1420 Seventh St. NW just down the street from the McKinley National Monument, has been in business since 1922, one year shy of a century.
It s one of those slightly out-of-the-way places that is too easy to forget about.
Originally known as Spiker’s Barbecue, the restaurant has been named Kennedy s since 1960, when Charles “Jack” Kennedy bought the place. In 2009, after Kennedy s death, the restaurant was purchased by Ernie Schott, proprietor of Taggart s Ice Cream Parlor, another enduring Canton staple.