A ten-year journey away from home for the Dennis the Menace is now over.
After being stolen from its namesake park in 2006, the bronze statue has been re-erected in front of the Monterey Recreation Administrative Offices behind city hall, according to a press release from the city of Monterey
The three-and-a-half foot statue was found at Brothers Scrap Metal in Orlando Florida in September 2015 and returned to Monterey shortly after. Recent restorative efforts were done at the Monterey Sculpture Center.
In 1988, Hank Ketcham, the cartoonist who created Dennis the Menace, commissioned Academy Award-winning animator Wah Ming Chang to create the statue, which welcomed people into the park.
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