Fort Recovery FFA celebrating agriculture next week

Fort Recovery FFA is celebrating National FFA Week beginning Tuesday.

The Community FFA Breakfast is slated from 6 to 8 a.m. Wednesday for local business leaders, community leaders, FFA Alumni, teachers, FFA parents and members. A Food For America program, intended to teach elementary students about farm and ATV safety, is also scheduled for Wednesday. The program will involve various agriculture-themed activities.

An elementary petting zoo will be held from 9 a.m. to 2:15 p.m. Thursday in the agricultural shop for preschoolers through second graders to learn more about agriculture. Anyone with young children in the community is welcome to attend.

Agricultural Olympics, an event in which high schoolers compete against each other in events promoting agriculture, will wrap up festivities at the end of the school day Feb. 21.

Other activities include a tractor drive-in Tuesday and a truck drive-in Feb. 21. 

Free admission

Enjoy a free day learning about history next week. Limberlost State Historic Site of Geneva will be offering free admission on Monday. Indiana State Museum and other Historic Sites will be open for free to the public in observance of Presidents Day.

Limberlost State Historic Site will be open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday, weather permitting. Visitors can take guided indoor tours of Gene Stratton-Porter’s Geneva home to see where Indiana’s most prolific female author wrote many of her books, including her two most famous novels, “Freckles” and “A Girl of the Limberlost.”

Attendees can also take self-guided hikes through the Limberlost Conservation Area Nature Preserves to explore the natural landscape that inspired Stratton-Porter’s writings.

Advance registration is encouraged for indoor tours, which are offered at 11 a.m., 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. Visit IndianaMuseum.org for more information.