SCHOOL GROUNDS COFFEE is inside Kentucky Classic Arts and is the box office for arts tickets & coffee
02/12/2025
❄️✨ Valentine’s Flight Night Update! ✨❄️
RUN-FOUR spots just opened up for flight boards! 🍷🍻
If you missed out the first time, now’s your chance! Grab your tickets before they’re gone again. ❤️
DON'T FORGET-It's tomorrow, February 13th at 6:30 and we want ya to come out even if you don't have a flight board!
Soup, Sandwiches and specialty drinks will be available!
Hey, gal pals! ❄️💖 Due to the snowy weather, we’re *sadly* rescheduling our **Galentine’s Flight Night** to **Thursday, February 13, at 6:30 p.m.** We’ll miss you in the meantime, but we want everyone to stay safe and cozy! Can’t wait to celebrate with you soon!☕✨💕
02/10/2025
🍽This weeks soups are chicken enchilada and Zuppa Toscana.
Add on a cheese stick, crackers or chips.
🍴As always we have our homemade cranberry pecan chicken salad sandwiches, smoked Gouda pimento cheese sandwiches and fresh shaved deli sandwiches.
😁We can’t wait to see you.
🔆We are open until 2 today.🔆
02/07/2025
We’ve had a crazy week with all the sickness going around so we want to take a moment to thank each of our staff for their hard work, dedication, and positive attitude.
Your commitment to doing your best, no matter the task, has not gone unnoticed, and it makes a huge difference in everything we do. 🥰
Your energy and effort create a great atmosphere, and we are so proud of the growth and teamwork. You truly help make this place special. This week would not have went as smooth without you all.
💖ALL of our staff is amazing, we just wanted to give an extra shout out to these young ladies. Keep being awesome , and thank you again for all that you do!💖
02/07/2025
Congratulations to Paige Fetters Bright! You and your pal Sarah Beth Cash have won a free cup of coffee!
02/06/2025
☕️ Sausage biscuits are ready! ☕️
Come get them before Melody eats them all up! 🤣
Or just come say hi!! We’d love to see ya!
02/05/2025
SOLD OUT!
🍴 Lunch Today: Taco Salad! 🌮🥗
Come grab a fresh, flavorful taco salad for lunch today! Perfectly seasoned, loaded with all your favorite toppings, and just what you need to fuel your day. 😋
Drop by and treat yourself!
02/05/2025
🚨 Galentine’s Flight Night Update! 🚨
Our flight boards are officially SOLD OUT, but don’t worry – you can still join the fun! Grab your gals and come out for a night of romcom trivia and order a *specialty drink* that will make you swoon. ☕️ 💕
Can you guess what our mystery flavors will be? 🕵️♀️ We’ll be serving up surprises that are as sweet as a meet-cute!
Plus, we’ll be serving up soups, sandwiches, and sweets – so come hungry and ready to indulge! 😋
02/03/2025
Hoping he’s wrong, cause Phyllis and we are ready for spring! Happy coffee Monday!!
02/03/2025
❤️ It’s February and that means a new menu! ❤️
Be sure to come see us today until 2.
01/27/2025
🍲This weeks soups are Gnocchi soup and roasted red pepper tortellini.🍲
Come share a smile with us and grab a bowl of our homemade soup. 😁
01/24/2025
We have been celebrating the new year all month long with our 2025 latte (a custom blend of butterscotch, white chocolate, salted caramel). Join in on the fun before January ends! ❄️✨
01/21/2025
Meet Our January Featured Artist: Christie Hourigan Ballard
“As a child I always dreamed of being an artist, from the time I could hold a crayon! At 4 years old I made my own book (which my mother still has.) At 12, I painted my first painting on my bedroom wall... I thought my mother would be furious but instead she has painted around it all these years, still there!
I was diagnosed schizophrenic in my late teens, so for many years I struggled with my mental illness. I took many wrong turns along the way, and my art was no longer there. In 2018 I picked up some canvas and paint of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, and did my first painting in over 20 years! I quickly found that it really helped me with my schizophrenia, giving me an amazing and productive outlet for my emotions. So, I dedicated my business to what gives me my creativity... hence the name “Schizophrenic Creations Art Studio.”
From there my business grew. A year after start-up, I had been commissioned to do my version of the “Last Supper” and it was 4th place in the World Art Awards in 2024. I’ve done 600 painting and charcoals, and do custom portraits mostly. My specialty is portraits of loved ones that have passed with loved ones that are still here, but I still paint a little bit of everything.
At 46, and back in Kentucky, my small business is is thriving and growing everyday! I love my job so much, it’s so fulfilling watching the joy in my customers’ eyes as they see their pieces! I am a firm believer and liven proof that through hard work dreams do come true... what a beautiful life... God’s Canvas.”
Come see Christie’s art for yourself here at School Grounds for the rest of the month, and even take home a piece for yourself!
01/20/2025
☕️Mugshot Monday☕️
Meet Raven! Raven has been working here at SchoolGrounds for a few months, and she has been working hard to learn everything about our menus! Her favorite part of working at SchoolGrounds is working with friends her age. Come visit Raven here at SchoolGrounds and try her favorite drink: a Sunburnt latte!
01/20/2025
🍲This weeks soups are chicken bacon ranch soup with a cheddar biscuit and unstuffed bell pepper soup.🍲
Both are served with chips or crackers.
Swing by for lunch today! We are open till 2.
We can’t wait to see you. 😁
01/20/2025
We are open and ready to serve you!
Come grab a coffee and a fresh sausage buiscuit!!
Happy Monday!!!
01/13/2025
☕️Mugshot Monday☕️
Meet Sydney! Sydney is new addition here at SchoolGrounds, and she has spent her time here perfecting the perfect cup of coffee! Her favorite part of working at SchoolGrounds is being in a place where she is always laughing. Come visit Sydney here at SchoolGrounds and try her favorite drink: a maple pancake latte!
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Congratulations to Paige Fetters Bright! You and your pal Sarah Beth Cash have won a free cup of coffee!
We are open and ready to serve you!
Come grab a coffee and a fresh sausage buiscuit!!
Happy Monday!!!
🌟NEW🌟
🥳Come try our dirty Dr.Pepper.🥳
It has hints of salted caramel and coconut!! It’s going to be a favorite!!
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Come in tomorrow morning and try our newest breakfast special: a sausage cream cheese crescent bake! (Available while supplies last!)
🌨️April Showers🌨️ bring 🌼May Flowers🌼 (refreshers!)
Be sure to grab your favorite May menu items before they are gone!
We hope you hop over and visit us! Open until 12:30 today! 🐰☕️
The beautiful, historic building that once housed Lebanon’s Middle & High School has a new art space open to the public. Two former classrooms have been renovated into Lebanon's own coffee house, School Grounds Coffee.
This is a space for students to safely congregate after school hours, but School Grounds is not just a space for the youth of the community. With a private space for meetings and free high speed internet, we hope local business leaders will drop by for a light lunch with a colleague or a change of scenery to catch up on email or research their latest project. Mornings and afternoons allow young parents to enjoy sipping a cappuccino or a fresh fruit smoothie while their toddlers color or make a craft project. Evenings will soon bring an added option for date nights or a gathering spot for friends with special events such as game nights, trivia, karaoke, and live music. This blending of ages, arts, and activities makes School Grounds Coffee a welcome addition to the community landscape as a “third place”. That’s “Great and Good” for everyone!
The term “third place” comes from the book The Great Good Place: Cafes, Coffee Shops, Community Centers, Beauty Parlors, General Stores, Bars, Hangouts and How They Get You Through the Day, by author Ray Oldenburg. In Great Good Place, Mr. Oldenburg espouses the need we all have for places, apart from home and work, to gather and connect with others as a buffer against the stress in our lives. Having a place to destress is especially relevant during these trying times, and studies show that de-stressing actually makes us healthier. In fact, he indicates that part of the charm of small towns is the health and nostalgia of the unique hangouts they provide.
We are blessed in Lebanon to have so many great good places to gather! So, why is another community space important and what does coffee have to do with art?
Well, there is the art of coffee bean roasting which Gregg Potter of Potter Coffee (Yes! We will be serving Lebanon’s own Potter Coffee!) has been perfecting for several years, the art of latte crema which our baristas hope to some day master, and the local art which will hang on the walls of School Grounds to showcase our community artists and Marion County student’s artistic creations.
However, the “Art of Coffee” has a much more grounding significance. Whether or not you partake of coffee in the shop, call in a take-out order, or come by to just soak in the atmosphere and eat a piece of cheesecake, there is an artistic sense of coziness surrounding coffee that can’t be defined by words... you just have to experience it.
Art, whether it be visual or performing art, needs a place of reflection to solidify it in our souls. So also does life need such connection. A coffee shop lends itself to reflection and conversation; it’s a place for the blending art and community into our lives. Welcome to School Grounds Coffee, Lebanon’s Own Coffee House.
