Mainstreet Radio's Gretchen Lehmann profiles the Kensington Runestone…and the debate over the authenticity that has has waged on for one hundred years.
There's still no definitive conclusion on this rock which farmer Olaf Ohman unearthed on his western Minnesota farm back in 1898. Amateur sleuths have poured thousands of dollars of their own money into gathering evidence the stone is for real, and academics have spent decades trying to prove it's a fake. The one thing clear about this debate is that's its deeply rooted in faith, culture and community.