Bicknell Bed & Breakfast

Jamming at the Bicknell Farmers Market

Ron Ackman — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 02:00:30 +0000

Steve Rinker & Greg Demopoulos

Steve Rinker , Bicknell, left, and Greg Demopoulos from Florida jam for the passersby during the Bicknell Farmers Market Saturday morning on Constitution Avenue in Bicknell. The market is held each Saturday morning and free spaces for vendors are available and it is open to produce, crafts, foods, yard sales, flea markets and garage sale item vendors.

Friday Night Contra Dance

Ron Ackman — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 17:36:45 +0000

Our Friday night Contra dance is still on at 7 pm with pitch in snack foods and beverages. Hope to see a nice sized bunch of people there.

Our part with Contra instruction for the dancers at the Terre Haute Wabash Senior Citizens Center fundraiser dance workshop has been rescheduled to 2 pm due to my conflict here in Bicknell helping with our first Bicknell Farmers Market of the year. We will do some contra there at 2 pm for an hour and then do Cajun dancing to cajun music from 3 to 4. Im excited about showing some of our dancing to a nice group of newcomers and hope that we will see some of them here some time. You are welcome to attend. $15 Buys you workshops and dancing from 10 AM till at least 5 pm, and then evening dancing from 7 to 9. $5 if you are attending the evening dance only. I am looking forward to it.

About Contra Dancing

Ron Ackman — Sun, 22 May 2011 02:40:55 +0000

We had another disappointing attempt to have a contra dance Friday night and the only ones beside myself to attend were Ruthie and Charlie who drove 100 miles to get here. They also tend to Ruthies house in Linton so it was not a wasted trip but they did drive some distance and hoped to dance.

We don’t want our dance to fail and my fiancee from the Philippines is anxious to Contra dance with us when she arrives this summer. Lets don’t disappoint her and let’s get our numbers back up to where we want them with more numbers of dancers. It is really true with this that ‘the more the merrier’ is accurate.

To those of you who have been here but were disappointed with a small turnout, we really want you back and since we need to start thinking ‘self promotion’ see if we can invite more folks who might like some good dancing and for FREE!

Vincennes Contra dance on May 20th

Ron Ackman — Fri, 20 May 2011 17:46:54 +0000

The public is invited to this FREE Contra dance hosted by the Vincennes Colonial/Contra Dance Group on Friday May 20th. The location is the Old Town Players Theatre basement at 5th and Broadway in Vincennes. The dance will start with some instruction if needed at 7 pm and will last until 9:30 pm. No experience or partner is necessary, just come with the expectation of doing some enjoyable called dancing to some outstanding music. for more information go to vincennesdancers.com.

Fun Contra dances

Ron Ackman — Thu, 05 May 2011 19:07:41 +0000

Tomorrow Friday May 6th at 7 pm will be another Contra dance doing really fun group contra dances to outstanding music while dancing with your partner and most of the others in the group. Contra is called from a pre choreographed dance instruction and folks often have the dance memorized part way through the dance. So it is exercise for the mind as well as the body. And you will meet great new friends. No smoking or alcohol. And the dance is FREE. This is really different from the ‘do your own thing’ type of dancing. It is really not hard as at one of our recent dances youngsters under 10 were able to master the dance and had a great time while doing it. view vincennesdancers.com for more information. Ron Ackman

3 BR Home Is Now Available For Rent

Ron Ackman — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 18:18:31 +0000

A completely furnished 3 BR home is now available for rent, not including utilities at 601 S Main in Bicknell for $1000 per month. Call Ron at 812 735 1003.

Rentals are available from time to time including B&B rooms.

The Vincennes Colonial/Contra Dancers Sponsors

Ron Ackman — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 01:34:34 +0000

The Vincennes Colonial/Contra Dancers are happy to have you as a sponsor for our community and several states Contra Dance on March 5 at Adams Coliseum. Our sponsors so far are United Ins Co, Executive Inn and TLC Internet Services from Bicknell. Efforts are being made to bring more sponsors on board who may be able to help promote in various ways, such as radio, newspapers, musical equipment etc. The gym is contracted, musicians and callers from Bloomington IN are contracted, we’ve set our time and arranged for the food and refreshments. Flyers are being distributed locally thanks to United Ins and the leg work of our dance group. Flyers are also going out to dance clubs in 4 states. An updated flyer we will use right up to the dance will be printed about Jan 20.

We anticipate over 100 dancers and at $6 @ would be about a break even income. We are currently so few in number in our dance club that less than 100 dancers would be a financial loss for us and since our regular dances are free to the public we don’t have any cash reserves. We hope the gate will pay all the bills but there’s no guarantee. So our mission is to bring enough local dancers in and also from the surrounding dance clubs to top the 100 dancer mark. Established dances often draw 300-400 dancers. That would be nice but for our first time we doubt that will happen. We don’t want to ask for financial help and will do everything in our power to make a successful dance.

We would like very much to bring some more sponsors on board who could help us in the media, musical equipment and possibly just recognition of the dance.
You probably have seen us doing dances at the Rendezvous in costume but our regular dances are in casual clothing and are great fun to do. Our regular dance dates at Old Town Players before our March 5 dance are Jan 7&21; Feb 4&11; and March 4, all at 7pm. We urge you to check our website at vincennesdancers.com for more information.

Our March 5 Dance will be in Adams Coliseum. The band will be the Portch Swingers with Cindy Port, Rick Nagy, Bob Port and Juliet Port. The callers will be Bill Baus and possibly Mark Richardson. Doors open at 6:30, food will be available at 7pm with beginner dance help at 7:30 and the dance to start at 8pm till 11pm. All ages, no smoking or alcohol. Ron Ackman, 888-735-3013 email rmackman@hotmail.com

Janet Davis Memorial Scrabble Tournament

Ron Ackman — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 18:33:27 +0000

03/14/2008 posted by Ron Ackman

The 7th annual Janet Davis Memorial Scrabble Tournament benefiting heart, kidney or diabetes charities will be held on Sunday April 13 at 2 pm at the Bicknell Bed & Breakfast, 120 W. 3rd in Bicknell. Janet was an avid scrabble player even though she was severely disabled and passed away in 2000 from all 3 disabilities mentioned.

Local business people are always generous in donating something for prizes and contestants make cash donations for entry into the tournament. There are always so many prizes that contestants always get more than one prize. Outside cash donations for the charities are accepted also. Usually between $100 and $200 is raised and this year we are hoping for more. If you like to play scrabble make plans to participate April 13th.

Lots of Good Dancing Going On

Ron Ackman — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 18:29:58 +0000

The Mardi Gras Celebration in Vincennes Saturday night was a great time for all! The Cajun music was fantastic and J.C. Jones from Nashville TN did a very good job of teaching us some Cajun dance steps that actually were used a lot during the concert.

We were well represented with Ruthie, Charlie, Ann, Diana, Jack and myself. Our friends Ken and Pat Neighbors were crowned King and Queen by virtue of finding the trinket in the piece of cake that Pat received. They also will get a 3 day vacation to the New Orleans Mardi Gras. BTW we had flyers sitting out for our Contra Dance Group and there was interest expressed. Also we do dance to Cajun music some at our dances.

Regular Contra Dancers don’t forget to come and help during the VU Contra Dance Course this Friday Feb 8 and again Feb 15. Room B05 in the P.E. Complex. 7 PM.

Our next regularly scheduled Contra Dance at the Old Town Players Theatre will be on Feb 22 with practice at 6:30 and Contra Dancing from 7 to 9 pm, As always it is free and the rankest of beginners are welcome. Singles, couples or the whole family. For those of you unfamiliar with this type of dancing it is an interactive group dance (you dance with all the other dancers) to easy to follow calls from the caller (usually me). Everybody usually dances and there are no wallflowers and rejections are very rare.

A side note you may be interested in is the FREE BLUEGRASS JAM for the public to be held in VU’s Student Union on 2nd St. this Sunday Feb 10th from 10 am to 5 pm. Musicians are invited to bring their instruments and join in. Food and drink are available. Parking in the lot behind the Student Union.

Viv’s Deli Building

Ron Ackman — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 18:27:11 +0000

404 Fremont which was formerly Viv’s Deli (a great place to eat) here in Bicknell I’m told is planning to reopen as a restaurant and laundromat according to a rumor I heard. If this is true I wish them well as a laundromat is really needed, and with plant workers maybe the restaurant too. J. Pan and L. Rosalez bought the property in October of last year.