Ad Astra statue, goes up — then down
Topeka ? Ad Astra, the statue that took 14 years to make its way to the top of the Kansas Statehouse dome, didn’t stay there long.
After being hoisted by a crane atop the Capitol early Monday afternoon, the 22-foot-tall, 4,420-pound statue was taken down later in the afternoon by construction workers. Reporters were told there was a problem with the bolts.
For more on the story, tune in to the 10 p.m. 6News report on Sunflower Cablevision’s channel 6 and pick up a copy of Tuesday’s Lawrence Journal-World.
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