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Falls of the Ohio State Park will host its annual Digging the Past event on Saturday, August 24, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Guests can explore fossils, minerals, and archaeology with a variety of free programs and games behind the park’s Interpretive Center. Admission to the museum gallery is $7 for all during this event.

These programs are offered at specific times during the day:

  • Explore the outer fossil bed on a guided hike from 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. This hike is for guests ages 12 and older.
  • Trek the park’s other fossil beds with a guide. Hikes will leave on the hour from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
  • Make a free fossil collection from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m.
  • See what you can knock down at geode bowling from noon to 1 p.m. and 3 to 4 p.m. Prizes will be offered.
  • Discover interesting facts about geodes and crystals during a program and giveaway from 1 to 2 p.m.
  • Learn about dinosaurs during the Dinosaurs with Dale program from 2 to 3 p.m.
     

Programs offered all day include

  • Visit refreshed Silurian fossil piles, courtesy of Irving Materials, Inc. (IMI) and Sellersburg Stone Quarry.
  • Create an egg carton collection with fossils and minerals for a $1 donation.
  • Create crafts like weather rocks, pet rocks, and bead stringing.
  • See displays and information from the Falls of the Ohio Archaeological Society.
  • Take part in hands-on archaeology activities from the Indiana State Museum.
  • Create a make-and-take concrete fossil, courtesy of IMI.
  • Browse fossil displays and get your fossil identified, courtesy of the Kentucky Paleontological Society.
  • Learn about Orodovician fossil collecting from the Spencer County (Kentucky) Tourism bureau.
  • Watch demonstrations of lapidary work (including rock polishing).
  • Get your unknown artifacts, rocks and fossils identified.
  • Dig “artifacts” in an archaeological mini-mock dig station.
     

Falls of the Ohio State Park (on.IN.gov/fallsoftheohio) is at 201 W. Riverside Dr. in Clarksville, 47129.

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