Public monuments are the story we tell about ourselves. They shouldn’t aggrandize a living leader.

By: Max McCoy

Outlets: Kansas Reflector

Published: April 5, 2026

Words: 2,108

Last Updated: 3 months, 3 weeks ago

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In a glass case on the ground floor of the Kansas Statehouse is a 3-foot plaster model of Ceres, the Roman goddess of agriculture. The model is the work of sculptor J.H. Mahoney, who in 1891 won a design contest to translate the spirit of the state into art.

The model is Mahoney’s vision, in miniature, of a 15-foot tall bronze meant to perch atop the Capitol’s copper dome, then under construction. Held aloft in …

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