The Missouri State Capitol building has been under renovation for more than a year. The dome has been wrapped up for construction that long.
Yesterday, during a visit to one of the state office buildings, I was lucky to be there during exactly the time when the statue was installed again after being gone since November 2018.
This is the historic bronze statue of Ceres, the Roman goddess of agriculture, perched 238 feet above the entry of the building. It took a 550-ton crane to raise the 10′ 4″ statue, weighing 1,407 pounds, on this bitter-cold day in Missouri.
I was there for a historic moment.