Ohio Valley Steelworker Statue
Steubenville, Ohio
Steubenville calls itself the "City of Murals," and offers an enticing free map for a "Footsteps of Dean Martin Tour," but all we have time for on this trip is a stop at an eye-catching metal man in a hood. It was created by artist Dimitri Akis.
We saw a statue similar to this in nearby Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1985, although the attribution on this one says that it was forged by Ohio Valley Steelworkers in 1989. The life-size cast house man carries a long-handled dipping ladle, and is wearing the hooded suit that protected the worker from the instant blistering that 2,800 degree molten iron is prone to deliver.