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February 2024
Seed Saving Symposium
The Knox County Seed Library is sponsoring a Seed Saving Symposium on Saturday, February 10, from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm Eastern. During this free event, in the Fortnightly Building (421 N. 6th St., Vincennes, IN), attendees will learn about seed testing and starting, growing for and selecting seeds for saving, seed cleaning and storage, and how to save native plant seeds, as well. There will be vendors, information tables, and door prizes. Saving seeds helps the gardener preserve heirloom…
Find out more »Third Thursdays Open Mic
The Vincennes Brewing Company is honored to be hosting Third Thursday Open Mics again this year! This is an event that the Tourism Board has planned for each third Thursday of each month. Comedians are invited to a first-come, first-served opportunity to perform open mic comedy at the Vincennes Brewing Company in their upstairs bar area.
Find out more »Gaslight
Gaslight, set in 1910 London, is an intense drama about a woman being manipulated by her husband into thinking she is going insane. Written by Patrick Hamilton, the play Gaslight is the origin of the modern term gaslighting.
Find out more »In Blackest Shade, In Darkest Light
February 16 – March 15, 2024 Opening Reception and Artists’ Talk: Friday, February 16, 12pm VINCENNES, IN. – The Shircliff Gallery of Art at Vincennes University is proud to present In Blackest Shade, In Darkest Light, a traveling exhibition of seven Black American artists working in drawing. Patrick Earl Hammie, Curator: In Blackest Shade, In Darkest Light is an exhibition that centers around drawing as a technology from which artists speculate, recover, and collect communal histories, manifesting stories of desired…
Find out more »The Diamond Ring Wedding Palooza
Are you thinking of getting hitched or want to renew your vows? Make it a day to remember during our Wedding Palooza during the "diamond ring" phenomenon happening right before the 2024 solar eclipse!
Find out more »Big Seed Satuday
The Knox County Seed Library is being restocked for the new year! Get ready for your new gardening year by finding free seeds to use during Big Seed Saturday!
Find out more »Free Admission Day at the Vincennes State Historic Sites
Indiana State Museum and Historic Sites Offers Free Admission on Presidents' Day!
Find out more »Capture of Fort Sackville relived
The Capture of Fort Sackville Commemorated In February 1779 George Rogers Clark’s forces marched across the Illinois country and flooded Wabash River to Vincennes to challenge Henry Hamilton and the British Army at Fort Sackville. Clark’s success is often regarded as a key event in American movement West to the Mississippi River and South to the Ohio River. An area 1/3 the size of the original 13 colonies known as the Old Northwest Territory became part of the United States…
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