Welcome to the Monroe County History Center

History of Entertainment -
Your Help Needed

New: Court Records Index 1818-1875

Needed for Upcoming Exhibit: What is Your
Quilting Story?

NEW: Monroe County Timeline

NEW: Cemetery of the Month--
Unionville Cemeteries

Vincennes Land Records Index

Historian Newsletter Index

Probate Records Index

Showers Brothers Virtual History

Geocache - An
Interactive Activity

Search over 15,000 images -- and more -- in our collection


William Baxter with
Flossie & Betty

 

Annual Gala -- Beatlemania: “The Long and
Winding Road”

Save the Date! February 24

An evening of wining, dining and the Beatles


Dinner and Program
COOK World Headquarters
6 P.M. - Reception
7:30 P.M. - Program by Dr. Glenn Gass

Join us for the evening and support the Experience History Project to introduce meaningful and enjoyable interactive exhibits in the Gateway and Permanent Galleries. Download registration form here and mail in. If you are interested in table sponsorship please contact Diane Ballard at director@monroehistory.org, or 812.332.2517


Photo courtesy of Indiana University

Professor Gass is the recipient of the Herman B Wells Lifetime Achievement
Award, the Indiana University Sylvia Bowman Distinguished Teaching Award, the IU Student Alumni Association Student Choice Award, the Society of Professional Journalists Brown Derby Award, and other teaching awards and honors. He was inducted into the Faculty Colloquium on Excellence in Teaching and is author of A History of Rock Music: The Rock & Roll Era (McGraw-Hill, 1994). Professor Gass is a member of the Education Advisory Board of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland. He is the recipient of grants in composition from the National Endowment for the Arts, Meet the Composer, and the Indiana Arts Commission.