EVANSVILLE, Ind. (WEHT) — Volunteers are getting out of the house and cleaning up litter at Angel Mounds State Historic Site.
It is done is prepare for a new era in the site’s history.
On an unseasonably warm day in the Tri-State, what better day to pick up trash left behind at Angel Mounds?
“I care about history. I’ve always cared about history. But I actually decided to do something about it,” says volunteer Charlotte, a senior at Signature School.
The volunteers and one of the Angel Mounds staff members will say there is a couple purposes behind cleaning up the soda cans, cigarettes and candy wrappers across the archeological site.
For a handful of hours, they canvass the area, ensuring Angel Mounds looks nice for its museum grand reopening taking place next weekend on November 16 and 17.
“We’ll have all new exhibits that will be a lot more interactive. And it will tell the story more of the descendants of Native American people and honor them a lot more than the old exhibit did,” says program developer Ben Durham.