Of course, this story is rather silly and wasting valuable time and money that the region does not have. The biggest issue involved is not the rock itself it over the border. With a river you would think that it would be easy to tell where the boundary is, not so my friend. Kentucky was a state first so they get rights to more of the river. Locals on both sides have always argued as to where the “line” is and the rock is in that zone. I hate bringing in this parrell but this story has a Hatfield/McCoy corollary too it, a lot of fist shaking and lawsuits thrown down. I would even say this battle goes back to the Civil War, even though Kentucky was part of the north, it is still in the south, the Mason/Dixon line is the river and a lot of that bad blood is still slightly present. As a kid, you would see a Confederate flag sticker and knew it was someone from Kentucky, I would even get into arguments over the fact they proudly displayed a flag of rebellion that they were not even apart of. Even in sports there was a divide, Kentucky had University of Kentucky basketball and we had Ohio State football. There were fans of the “other” school on either side of the river, but as an Ohioan I always rooted against Kentucky… that other state!

This whole rock thing is another saga in this craptaclar feud. It’s not like Steve Shaffer tippy toed to the river while piccicato violins were play, he spent days with a large crew dragging that rock out. Kentucky could have stopped him at any point, yet they didn’t. They waited and even sent people over to investigate the thing. I hate to say it I agree with Shaffer on this, it needs to preserved as a historic marker. What I can tell Kentucky wants to put the thing BACK into the water as a way to preserve it. If that is true, then Kentucky needs to be smacked. The idea thing to do is put in a museum somewhere and leave it. It’s not going to draw large crowds to begin with… it’s a freaking rock! When I go home to visit my family will I go and see Indian Head Rock? Sure why not, it’s better than most things there, but I am not going to make a special seven hour drive from Raleigh to see it.

Finally for those who think the face is a native American petroglyph… IT’S A FACE! Who knows, my grandparents could have carved that back in the 20s! In fact I’m going to say they did, I have no proof, but neither do you saying it’s a petroglyph so there!