Our new journals are finally here! Currents of Change vol. 9 features the life and findings of E.Y. Guernsey who conducted extensive work in the Falls and Clark County region. Email abader@ciarch.com to get your copy.

FOAS makes contribution to the newly opened Clark County Museum in honor of the memory of former member Jeff Stoner. The money is to be used to provide educational programming for archaeology. Bett Etenohan, FOAS, shown here giving check to Jeannie Burke, Clark County Museum.

The Saturday May 13 meeting of FOAS will feature Mike Linderman who is the Site Director at Angel Mounds. He is in possession of the personal photos/slides of Glenn and Ida Black that details their life during the early excavations at Angel Mound and some of the trips they took with Eli Lilly and wife, and will present a slide presentation to us on this subject. The meeting runs from 2-4 pm and will be held in the auditorium of the Falls of the Ohio State Park Interpretive Center in Clarksville, Indiana.

Our newsletter for October is up! The Gaslight festival was a huge success again this year, with quite a few remarkable finds from the Conrad Seaton House. We are also still working on excavation materials from Division Street School and the Clark County Museum. Anyone
who would like to help can contact Bett to set up a time.

Next meeting is this Saturday, October 8th. Anne Bader will be going over projectile point types and identification.

Download here: October Bits and Pieces

Our next newsletter is out! If you are not currently on the mailing list, then it’s available for download here: Bits and Pieces August 2016.

Also our next meeting is this Saturday the 13th, at Clark County Museum. Hope to see you there!

The Falls of the Ohio State Park is in need of some extra hands to help with it’s upcoming event, Clark Days at Falls of the Ohio SP. “Celebrate the life and times of George Rogers Clark with Falls of the Ohio State Park on June 27 and 28. George Rogers Clark Days will run from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day at the George Rogers Clark Home Site, 1102 W. Harrison Ave., Clarksville.”

Additional Information:

We are in Need of some volunteers to help support the George Rogers Clark Days:
Sunday, both shifts are our greatest need, but we could also use some help on both shifts Saturday.
If you are able and willing, we would love to see you at this worthwhile event, even if you can only spare a few hours, you would be of great help.
There will be a 100 gallon cooler with ice for volunteers to put their lunch or drinks in. Be sure to check in with me when you arrive. I will be located under the kids activity tent. The volunteer log in book will be there as well. If you like, you can park your car at the Interpretive Center, and Alan will shuttle volunteers back and forth.

Please contact Dale Brown if you are interested.

We were recently contacted about a volunteer opportunity, surveying 5 acres of land near Sherperdsville, KY. If any FOAS members are able to help, please contact Eric Schlarb if you are interested in joining the survey. Read the full details as sent to us via email down below.

Volunteers needed to conduct an archaeological survey of a ca. 5 acre area that will be impacted by the construction of a visitors parking lot at the Active Heroes Retreat near Shepherdsville, Kentucky. The survey will take place Saturday June 25 from 10 AM to 3 PM.

Volunteers from the Lexington area are welcome to meet at the archaeology lab at 1020A Export Street at 8:15 am. Volunteers coming from the Louisville area should meet at the Kroger Parking Lot in Mt Washington at 10:00 AM. Those living in the Frankfort area can meet at the Walmart parking lot 301 Leonardwood Dr, Frankfort, KY 40601 near US 127 in Frankfort at 9:00 am, where transportation will be provided by the National Guard.

The Active Heroes mission is to support U.S. military service members, veterans and their families through physical, educational, and emotional programs providing coping skills in an effort to eliminate suicide. Active Heroes’ vision is to eliminate military/veteran suicide.

If you would like to volunteer, please contact Eric Schlarb at ejschl1@uky.edu If you have shovels and shovel probe screens please bring them.

Please bring your own water and lunch.

Saturday, July 9, we will have our second annual picnic in Ashland Park on the Clarksville riverfront. We will meet at the shelter house around 2pm, this event will replace our regular meeting. We are asking members to provide either a side or desert, Bob will grill brats and hotdogs.

This is a great opportunity to share items with other members and Anne will have artifacts from a local dig. Last year we had many members of the public stop by to see what we had and to learn about the organization.

We will also be conducting a silent auction as a fundraiser. Fell free to bring something interesting you might have lying around. We are asking that no genuine artifacts be included in the auction. As an organization, we are not permitted to participate in the buying or selling of artifacts.

Please email Christina Pfau if you plan to attend.

FOAS will be conducting a public archaeology weekend on the 18 and 19 of June at the Clark County Museum. The museum property is located at 721 Michigan Ave in downtown Jeffersonville. We will get started around 10 both days and dig until 2 or 4 depending on the weather. Our supplies are limited, if you are able to bring your own that would be great so we will have more for the public. We hope to see you there!

Justin Carlson, a graduate student at the University of Kentucky, will speak at our FOAS meeting this Saturday, June 11, at 2:00. Justin will speak about his exciting research outside of Crump’s Cave in Warren County, KY where he has documented 4 meters of early Native American occupation of the area. Looking forward to hearing more about this!!! Come join us. Public welcome!

We will also be adding quite a few upcoming events in the area to our calendar soon.