Posted on 10/03/2007 10:14:10 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
A recent river recovery of an eight ton treasure was followed by angry claims of arch[a]eological thievery... After years of planning and weeks of effort, a Portsmouth, Ohio Volunteer Recovery Team pulled the prehistoric, legendary Indian's Head Rock off the mighty Ohio River's bottom... In the 18 and early 1900's before the days of locks and dams, the boulder would pop up every decade or so, depending on river levels the rock became a popular tourist attraction, a gilded age photo op, featured in post cards. Some of Portsmouth's most prominent citizens scratched their names in the sandstone. Some think maybe this smiling face is an ancient Indian petroglyph, or maybe not... Technically speaking, Corps of Engineers folks say this stretch of Ohio River is Kentucky property and now an angry group of Kentuckians from across the river is mounting a political and legal battle, calling the Ohio Rock Recovery Team archeological looters and possible interstate felons... The city of Portsmouth hopes to display Indian's Head Rock at the welcome center or the new city hall. Meanwhile the Kentucky group says the attorney general's office is contacting the state police to file theft charges against the Ohio recovery team.
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Wow what a discovery... yep, that there is a sho nuff Bonified rock if I ever saw one.
Addams, rather than Adam. ;’)
Looks like it has a mustache and beard to me. I thought Indians were relatively beardless. Maybe it’s a Viking or Atlantean?
Betcha I could find 10 more almost identical. On the Ohio..It’s like picking up a skipping stone at the seashore. Geez...People are dim.
My daughter laughed when she saw “Plymouth Rock”.
I don’t get it.
Some traditions are just too dear and... well... traditional to ever let go.
Kentucky and Ohio fighting each other over anything all the time is one of them.
The UN should send peace keepers.
So, the Kaintucks let the Oh Highs openly plan and commit aggravated tresspass, without a whimpah, then cry, "fowl!" after the fact?
lol, Bump!
As an Ohioan with 3 out of my 4 grandparents raised in Ky, I ask, “Can’t we all just get along?”
Chief Long Face?
I would have said that first, but you’re boulder.
I’m just a chip off the old rock.
Granite, you no doubt are.
It could be just a kidney stone from a much larger statue.
Wow, now the rock has a head and an ass.
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