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A chain runs over large rocks in the foreground, while the picturesque Appalachian town of Pineville, Kentucky nestles in a green valley below, surrounded by rolling hills and lush forests. Fluffy clouds dot a vibrant blue sky, enhancing the serenity and beauty of the landscape.

Chained Rock owes its existence to a story that was told to children about a rock that had been anchored by a chain up on the mountainside over Pineville so that it didn’t fall down on them while they slept in the valley below. But at the time no chain existed, so a chain was ultimately attached to a rock back in the 1930’s to bring life to a story that had been around for many years.

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A bronze statue of James Kennedy Patterson, the first president of the University of Kentucky, sits in a court yard between buildings, on the University campus. “The Grand Old Man” of the University, as he is known, served from 1869 to 1910, transforming the Agricultural and Mechanical (A&M) College of Kentucky into the independent state university that it is today. The statue has stood on the campus since 1934.

The University of Kentucky, with a student body of more than 30,000, is located in Lexington, Kentucky’s second largest city

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