Bridgeport Connecticut

Scan13128, originally uploaded by bucklesw1. From Don Covington BETHEL -- The 6-foot-3 bronze P.T. Barnum statue was placed in front of Bethel Library Friday morning. "You don't know until it's in place what the overall impact is going to be," said sculptor Dave Gesualdi, who worked on the statue for two years. "But I think we got it right." The Barnum sculpture will be covered and unveiled Sunday at noon during the weekend-long celebration of the Bethel native's birthday. Two clowns from the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus will pull the covering off the statue, Bethel Historical Society president Patricia Rist said. The circus is also sending P.T. Barnum impersonator and look-alike Todd Zimmerman and 1,500 clown noses to the celebration, Rist added. Mariana Brothers Specialty Moving, a Bethel-based company, donated its services to transport the statue to the library. The company has moved artwork as far as Montana, and once moved a replica of the Statue of Liberty from the top of a building in New York City to the Brooklyn (N.Y.) Museum. The moving company doesn't often move art pieces in its own backyard, according to company owner Don Kane. "But something like this adds to the town," Kane said. From Buckles: "Everything a bit of a struggle this morning. Watched NFL Football late last night and overslept then I discovered that the latest set of Eric Beheim, Red Show slides came up pretty small. Shannon is off today and I'll see if he can enlarge them a bit. So I did today's stuff on the run." By the way, that's me and Chico in the picture.