PRIDE AND JOY--Mark Owen, who worked on the wood restoration in the House Chamber, shows the fruit of his labor to his wife Amber, and daughter Brooke at the Ohio Statehouse, in Columbus Ohio on Wednesday, July 3, 1996. The initial event in the reopening celebration was a tribute to the workers who restored the 1861 structure.

FUTURE SPEAKER--14 month old Clinton Kanuckel tries out Ohio House Speaker Jo Ann Davidson's chair, as his father Clint takes him on a tour of the Ohio Statehouse, in Columbus Ohio, on Wednesday, July 3, 1996. The elder Kanuckel worked on the hi-tech communication network in the renovated Statehouse.