Vincennes First Celebration
VINCENNES, Ind. (AP) — The city of Vincennes’ annual watermelon drop that helps
New Year’s Eve revelers usher in the new year also will serve as the kickoff event for
Indiana’s 200th birthday.
Organizing committee member Rick Linenburg tells the Vincennes Sun-Commercial that
he received word last week that the committee’s application to be the celebration’s first
official event had been approved.
Traditionally Vincennes has welcomed the new year with the spectacle of watermelons
dropping about 100 feet from a giant manmade watermelon onto a “splatform” as
fireworks soar skyward.
Linenburg says planning already has begun, but now that the committee has received
the approval it plans to try to get more organizations involved. He says the two events
will combine to make for one heck of a celebration.