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Grill of a Lifetime

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The summer heat has reached its peak, and that can mean only one thing: It’s time to grill! Whether you keep it classic with burgers and hotdogs or go big with pineapples and pizza, Evansville Living’s guide to grilling has everything you need to be the talk of the neighborhood’s cookouts.

Jason Austin is a lifelong outdoors 36 junkie, getting his adrenaline kicks from long-term camping and hiking on one of the world’s longest footpaths. The Evansville native shares his tales from the trail and how he’s overcoming a serious illness to stay connected with his passion.

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10 From the Editor Sounds of Summer

Conversation

Subscribers of the Issue

Snapshots

Epilogue Justin Scheller is in a league of his own

144 Final Detail B oonville’s Meyer family celebrates its storied past

GOOD LIVING 19

Community Partners Tepe Park basketball court gets a facelift

20 Center of Attention Vivian Elder celebrates 100 years of life

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Aiy’Den Scott-Drain is a budding entrepreneur

22 We Were Curious Listen in on the Evansville Horn Club

22 In the Spotlight A Sherman tank joins the ranks at the Wartime Museum

CULTURE 25 Creating Dive into Reid Chancellor’s graphic novels

26 On the Stage Bruce Lett rocks the jazz genre

27 Q&A aestro Roger Kalia talks M about EPO’s next season

27 Shelf Life 28 Art Talk Katie Waters and Virginia Schroeder create a covert masterpiece

30 The Guide 34 Social Life

DEPARTMENT 42 Travel Journal Tour the history and charm of Eastern Tennessee

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62 Get Inspired Hop on the latest home trend with Beatrice the Bus

62 64 What’s in Store

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65 Then and Now A revamped retreat on the East Side

FOOD & DRINK 95 Now That’s Sweet The Whimsy Whisk cookies are sugary treats with style

96 Local Flavor Cool off with Lollys Pop Bar’s popsicles

97 Chew on This 98 In the Kitchen Savor summer with two recipes from SWIMGA’s cookbook

98 Good Eats Find fresh food at seasonal farm stands

133 Dining Directory Peruse the cuisine of Tri-State restaurants

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SOUNDS OF SUMMER

e spend a lot of time in our yard during the spring and summer months, especially on weekends. My husband plants flowers and digs up weeds; I pick up sticks and deadhead the geraniums. We both participate in the thankless job of watering; with record-breaking heat waves this summer and little rain, we barely can keep up. Our dog, Jed, rolls in the grass and sniffs the air under a star magnolia tree that has grown quite large. He keeps an eye on the street and the squirrels. After all this activity, we haul out our lawn recliners, perhaps enjoy a beverage, and take in the sounds of summer – from both the natural and manmade worlds: church bells, lawn mowers, motorcycles, the mourning doves who live at our house, the comings and goings of the Ascension St. Vincent StatFlight 6 emergency response helicopter, children playing next door, the thump, thump, thump of a basketball dribbled across the street, sirens, planes overhead from the east still ascending to 35,000 feet, muffled cheers from nearby youth ballgames, and, if it’s 3 p.m. on a summer Sunday, the opening notes of a small brass band. The sound of the brass band was a mystery to me for more than a few months. It was consistent, I noticed. Sure enough, come Sunday afternoon, the brass notes would start up, moving across the lawns from the east. What was this band that played outside on the weekends? It sounded too close and not large enough in number to be a high school marching band. So, I took my question to Facebook and a page administered for neighbors on and around our street. I asked if anyCousin Lee Hudson commands a new grill at a recent family one knew what the brass sound was gathering. wafting across the lawns. My question was answered: “Our neighbor on Lincoln (East) plays and teaches music outside. Brass?” It was a few months before I learned that retired Harrison High School Band Director Art Adye was the neighbor who conducted the brass rehearsals – specifically, French horn rehearsals – in his backyard. Now I’ve come to expect the low, smooth sounds on Sunday afternoons. Read Sarah Thurman Corley’s story on this unique band on page 22. If the sizzle of the grill is your favorite sound of summer, we made this issue with you in mind. Beginning on page 48, the cover story “The Thrill of the Grill” looks past the smoke to

get into the meat of the matter on the best ways to grill and the best foods to put on the grill. Weber kettle (that’s our family) or gas with bells and whistles? You can duke it out with our experts who also guide you on the ideal cuts for various grilling methods, must-have gear, side dishes that complement the main attraction, and basically everything you need to know before lighting it up. Right before this magazine went to press, my family helped inaugurate a new grill at the North Georgia home of Todd’s uncle and aunt, Evansville natives Jerry and Joyce Hudson. A new Weber gas grill was purchased to do the heavy lifting of feeding a crowd. It performed as expected – rendering perfectly grilled chicken. As always, I look forward to hearing from you. I hope your summer is happy! Sincerely, Kristen K. Tucker Publisher & Editor

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hen Jim and Sabine Wathen of Evansville joined a group of friends for a trip to Egypt in March, they made sure to pose in front of the pyramids at Giza with a copy of Evansville Living. The magazine has factored into the Wathens’ travels since 2000. Many summer vacations were spent visiting Major League Baseball stadiums across the country. While on the road, the Wathens have left copies of Evansville Living in airplanes and hotel rooms, hoping to share their hometown with another reader. The couple subscribe “to find out things going on in our city,” Sabine says. “We love when a new restaurant comes out, and the magazine publishes what’s available. We love reading it.” Now retired — Sabine from Flanders Electric and Jim from Wathen Service Center — the couple are planning a trip to Greece with their Egypt travel buddies. Many even met up for lunch on May 7 after visiting AAA in Evansville to discuss travel options. “We had the best group,” Sabine says. “Everybody wants to go someplace together.”

What an honor it was when (editor and publisher) Kristen Tucker and Evansville Living magazine asked me to be a part of their Changing the Mind addiction services issue. I’ve been keeping it quiet for about a month now, but the issue has just come out. I’ve been in this magazine a couple times, but this is definitely the most celebrated issue. (“Creating Lasting Solutions,” May/June 2022)

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Arizona Days: While visiting her sister Olivia Dean in March in Tucson, Arizona, Evansville Living Advertising Administrator and Graphic Designer Morgan Dean snapped her picture with the 2022 issue of Evansville Living City View. Olivia is a Newburgh, Indiana, native pursuing a bachelor’s degree in dance at the University of Arizona.

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Surf and Sand: Katherine Reising and Jackson Tucker of Evansville enjoyed a weekend on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, in June, and made sure to take the May/June issue of Evansville Living.

Week in April, Elizabeth Conkling traveled to Spain and stopped to enjoy the view of Barcelona from Park Guell with the March/April 2022 issue of Evansville Living.

Tea Party: Celebrating her wedding shower at Water Tower Pointe on April 16 wasn’t complete for Evansville native Ella Freeman without a picture of her family and friends in their Victorian tea party-themed clothing and a copy of 2022’s Evansville Living City View.

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Thirty years later, ‘Stilwell’ looks back on his role in a classic sports film BY RILEY GUERZINI

sk any Evansvillian what the city is most known for, and Bosse Field’s role in the 1992 film “A League of Their Own” is sure to top many lists. Celebrating its 30th anniversary this summer, the Penny Marshall-directed movie about the first professional women’s baseball league brought some of Hollywood’s top talent to the River City. Many Tri-State residents found their way onto the set, most as extras, except for one young local. The film was Justin Scheller’s screen debut. A native of the west-county village of Saint Wendel, Scheller’s audition was spur of the moment: His mother saw an ad in the Evansville Courier for the role of Stilwell, the 5-year-old son of outfielder Evelyn Gardner, played by future “Monk” actress Bitty Schram. “I was really the opposite of Stilwell,” says Scheller, now a social studies teacher at White River Valley High School in Switz City, Indiana, and a football coach at Eastern Greene High School in Bloomfield. “I was so shy. It was not easy being in front of all those people for a kid that’s shy and anxious.”

Scheller, whom we first met in the 2011 issue of Evansville Living City View, beat out hundreds of other children for his first and only movie role. But it wasn’t all fun and games: SchellJustin Scheller and Madonna in 1991 er says the long days were tough on him at such a young age. “We would be there 12, 13 hours a day, and for a 5-year-old kid, that’s pretty brutal, especially when you don’t have a big part, so there’s so much downtime,” he says. Three decades on, Scheller says he’ll never forget his experience on set, playing catch with Tom Hanks or taking photos with Madonna. For Scheller, this would be the pinnacle of his acting career. “It’s kind of crazy to look back on,” he says, “but my parents were really good about not making it too huge of a deal. We weren’t trying to get into the movie business or anything like that.”

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oot traffic on the Tepe Park basketball court along South Garvin Street bustles as neighborhood residents have all been drawn to the vibrant, full-court mural of the geometric symbol the Flower of Life. The Evansville natives behind the colorful painting — Corderro Stith, Merrick Korach, and Austin Maxheimer — say creating an enhanced community space was the goal all along. “I wanted to lend my ability to the community in such a way that inspires most to follow their dreams,” Stith says. “The Flower of Life symbol is … a thing that all living beings share, so I figured it’d be a perfect symbol for what we were trying to do.” Maxheimer, neighborhood revitalization director, and Korach, former neighborhood champion, for Community One, a neighborhood organization that partners with Tepe Park through a program called Love Your Neighborhood, trace the mural’s origins back to 2017. Tepe Park residents were invited to share improvements they wanted to see, and many responses included a desire for more public art. Maxheimer and Korach connected with Stith, artist and founder of ArtIsLife Studios, in 2019. When COVID-19 stalled progress, Stith worked on a design concept, while Community One secured a $5,000 grant from CenterPoint Energy managed by the Arts Council of Southwestern Indiana to pay for materials, design, and project management. “It was an idea that we’ve had brewing for a long time, but once we had all the pieces lined up, we literally had less than two months to get that thing painted on the court,” Korach says. Completed the last week of August 2021 with help from neighborhood children who marked the court with their handprints, the mural was ready for the annual 3-on-3 basketball tournament held there every Labor Day weekend. “We need more examples of this type of direct investment in neighborhood leaders for them to execute their vision for change,” Maxheimer says of Stith’s contribution. “Encouraging more community partners to make similar investments into people so that they can change the warranty in the neighborhood would be really great.” LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR community1.org P H OTO O F CO R D E R R O S T I T H P R OV I D E D BY S T I T H . P H OTO O F B A S K E T B A L L CO U R T P R OV I D E D BY CO M M U N I T Y O N E

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CENTER OF ATTENTION BETTER WITH AGE Vivian Elder has done so much in her 100 years of life, she couldn’t begin to tell it all. From her years working as a nurse in World War II to her stints modeling her long, dark hair for shampoo ads to her time doctoring horses and cattle on her New Mexico ranch, she’s lived each day to the fullest. The Evansville native returned to the River City after marrying Herb Elder (below left), her husband of 17 years. Elder recently celebrated her 100th birthday with her many friends and family at SWIRCA.

A Century of Stories Vivian Elder, 100, lives her life to the fullest BY RILEY GUERZINI

GROWING UP, Vivian Elder wanted to see and do it all. Born on Evansville’s West Side in 1922, the centenarian has made the most of her long life as a World War II nurse, rancher, dedicated Christian, and volunteer. When the U.S. entered World War II in December 1941, Elder, a recent graduate of F.J. Reitz High School, joined the American Red Cross and trained as a wound care nurse. After the war ended, Elder and friends bought a Jeep and traveled the U.S. and Mexico, eventually landing at the Grand Canyon in Arizona.

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“When the war was over, I heard so many beautiful stories about the West,” she says. “I told my mother I had to go West, because it was eating at me.” She worked as a cashier in a Grand Canyon gift shop and lived among the Havasupai, a Native American tribe. Elder spent years learning their customs and sharing her Christian faith with them. A 90-year-old man from the tribe named Sammy even unofficially adopted her, naming her “Fati La” or “Lazy Woman,” stemming from the times she would ring a bell for anything she needed when she couldn’t leave the cash register. During a stint in New Mexico as a ranch hand, Elder met Enos Chapman, to whom she was married for 47 years. The couple bought their own ranch and worked together on breaking, branding, driving, and herding cattle and horses. “We lived on one of the biggest ranches in New Mexico,” she says. “We had 1,500 cattle. We raised 17 stallions and 110 broodmares.” Elder was dedicated to the ranch life, even sleeping under the stars on bitter cold nights during the birthing season. She says the ranch was her sanctuary, a welcoming place where no clocks were needed and the fresh, open air felt freeing. She still calls the West “home.” Vivian and Enos retired from ranch life in 1990 and moved to Boerne, Texas. He died in 2001. During a family visit in Evansville in 2002, she met and later married Herb Elder; they were together through Herb’s death in 2020. They moved to Evansville in 2007, settling on the West Side where Elder’s story comes full circle. In 2008, she joined SWIRCA & More, where she volunteers in the nutrition department. To this day, she helps serve lunches in SWIRCA’s café, which was the setting of her 100th birthday party in April. “I don’t know how I got here,” Elder says. “I’ve lived a good life. I’ve done so many things, it’d be hard to tell you everything I’ve done.” TO P L E F T P O R T R A I T BY Z AC H S T R AW. B I R T H DAY P H OTO BY R I L E Y G U E R Z I N I . A L L OT H E R I M AG E S P R OV I D E D

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Jungle Jim’s International Market is a freaky, foodie funhouse BY ROGER MCBAIN FANTASTIC FUNHOUSE A visit to the strange, surreal emporium that is Jungle Jim’s International Market is like no other. The eccentric decor and unusual items in stock are as unique as the market’s owner and namesake, Jim Bonaminio.

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STEPPING UP Seven-year-old turns ambitious attitude into creative enterprise BY RILEY GUERZINI

pint-sized package of creativity, 7-year-old Aiy’Den Scott-Drain already has four businesses under his belt. He sells original paintings through Aiy’Den’s Art state to state and in Evansville, where he spends summers with family. He splits profits from his art sales at pop-up shops, online, and galleries four ways: investing, buying equipment, spending on himself, and giving back to the community. This year, he’s raising money for veterans and the Ozanam Family Shelter. “It makes me happy to see other people happy,” he says. “That’s why I make art.” A T-shirt line, A.S.D. Apparel, debuted in 2018, with a children’s activities magazine following in 2020. That year, he began Moosa’s TIGER PAINTING BY Meals, a YouTube ChanAIY’DEN SCOTT-DRAIN nel where Chef Moosa (a nickname given to him by his mother, Mary Drain, who also homeschools him) prepares healthy meals. To date, Scott-Drain has sold more than 2,000 pieces of art, 450 T-shirts, and 215 magazines. He thinks hand-painted and designed shoes will be his next venture. “I enjoy it,” he says. “It makes me happy, and I never want to stop.” BRANCHING OUT asdapparel.com

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Jungle Jim’s International Market is renowned for its acres of victuals from around the globe. The megamarket in Fairfield, Ohio, stocks a quarter-million items ranging from a modestly priced pot of Swedish lingonberry jam to a $6,900 bottle of French Cognac. It offers a heady array of wines, beers, and liquors, along with specialty produce, cheese, meat, seafood, candies, and canned, bottled, and packaged foods from some 75 nations. Exotic edibles are only part of the novelty. Jungle Jim’s also is a fantastic funhouse with a fire truck and a NASCAR racer suspended from its ceiling. Animatronics include a crooning, Elvis-impersonating lion and a singing Campbell’s Soup can. Modern, commodious restrooms hide behind the doors of what appear to be single-seat, his-and-her porta potties. Jungle Jim’s curiosities have been featured in media reports across the country and in Japan, England, Germany, and Australia. It’s all the fever-dream brainchild of “Jungle” Jim Bonaminio, an authentic eccentric known for roaming the store on skates, a Segway, and on foot costumed as a steampunk wizard, NASCAR driver, Willy Wonka, and other characters. Jungle Jim’s began as a roadside produce stand in 1971. Since then, the quirky market has grown to two Cincinnati-area locations. The Fairfield store, opened in 1974, covers more than 300,000 square feet and sells P H OTO S P R OV I D E D BY J U N G L E J I M ’ S I N T E R N AT I O N A L M A R K E T

some 250,000 items in more than 40 departments, says Jungle Jim’s Development Director Phill Adams. The site includes a monorail train that travels to the Oscar Event Center, which hosts beer, wine and cheese festivals. The store draws more than 82,000 visitors a week, Adams says, including sports stars like Bo Jackson, actor Dan Aykroyd, and comedian and radio personality Adam Carolla. Lifestyle Tours, a New Harmony, Indiana, travel company, has included a Jungle Jim’s stop on bus tours to Cincinnati, and area residents have found it on their own. David Shrimpton, a Newburgh, Indiana resident who grew up in England, has gone to Jungle Jim’s for British fare, including Branson pickles and Stilton, Double Gloucester, and Stinking Bishop cheeses, he says. Jane Leingang of Evansville has visited several times, shopping the cheeses and ethnic foods. She was among those fooled by the portable bathroom entrance. “I didn’t particularly appreciate the joke when I needed the restroom on my first visit,” she says. IF YOU GO

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IN THE SPOTLIGHT

NATURE NOTES East Siders enjoy Evansville Horn Club’s Sunday afternoon al fresco rehearsals

Rolling In Sherman tank joins the ranks at the Wartime Museum BY DALLAS CARTER

BY SARAH THURMAN CORLEY

he East Side once again is enjoying muand seven advanced high schoolers. “It’s a really great learning tool for the sic in the air this summer courtesy of the Evansville Horn Club. students; it takes them to ranges they don’t Since the pandemic, visitors and normally explore,” Adye says. neighbors of the Evansville State Hospital Indeed, the horn choir makes full use of the instrument’s four-octave range, the park have been treated to a complimentary widest in the brass family. serenade during the club’s Sunday afternoon Membership to the Evansville Horn rehearsals, while moved outdoors so musiChoir is free, with the cost of music and cians could safely practice together while space covered by the horn club and comsocial distancing. “I have a large back yard with a huge oak munity partnerships, respectively. The full tree to shade it, and so it works out pretty choir rehearses twice per month during the well,” says Art Adye, a founding member school year, currently at Methodist Temof the group and principal hornist in the ple. Each semester, it gives at least one free Evansville Symphonic Band. “We somepublic concert. times draw a crowd.” “If you’re a horn player, and want to play, you are welcome,” Adye says. “It’s for The horn club (“horn” meaning what anybody that loves the horn.” non-players call the French horn) began in 2002 when the Symphonic Band’s four-perPERFECT FOURTH son horn section started gathering on its own facebook.com/Evansville-Horn-Choir to make music during the off-season. Over time, the club attracted more players — enough to start the Evansville Horn Choir, now a full-blown, international championship-winning amateur ensemble made up of 20 members from diverse walks of life. “We have a wide array of professions,” Adye says. “Several of the adults are teachers, but we also have engineers and IT specialists and a guy that works IN HARMONY Members of the Evansville Horn Club practice a tune on oil wells.” on a Sunday summer’s afternoon in June. When the weather complies, With no age limit, the group musicians rehearse in the backyard of Art Adye’s East Side home, treathas three college horn majors ing neighbors to sweet melodies.

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DURING WORLD WAR II, Evansville’s

Chrysler plant transitioned from manufacturing Plymouth automobiles to making 45-caliber ammunition and refurbishing military vehicles, including Sherman tanks. Now, the historic machine returns to the Tri-State. Unveiled at a VIP event on June 30 and now open to the public at the Evansville Wartime Museum, the 1943 M4 Chrysler Sherman tank was built at a plant in Detroit, Michigan, but it’s still representative of the River City’s wartime contributions. The museum bought the 67,000-pound fully operational tank this year at an auction in Texas. “The fact that we can continue to acquire items like this helps us tell the story while also encouraging the public to come and see what we have,” says Forrest Gottman, the museum’s executive director. “Those Sherman tanks are considered one of the reasons we won the war, so it’s great that we’re getting this.” In preparation for the new addition, museum staff and volunteers worked an entire weekend moving every item in the museum to create new space for the exhibits. “It’s such a big deal in that we hope it (the tank) just catapults our museum to the next level,” Gottman says. TANK TIME Evansvillewartimemuseum.org P H OTO BY L AU R A M AT H I S

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HARDCORE READING

Reid Chancellor’s graphic novels are unfiltered works of art BY DALLAS CARTER

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unk rock music and mental health meet in witty harmony between the lines of Reid Chancellor’s comics. The artist and author has told his life story — being a Type 1 diabetic, his bipolar disorder diagnosis, and growing up in religion — in three nonfiction graphic novels. Chancellor grew up in a musical and artistic family, playing guitar, bass, and drums; and writing music with local bands at a young age. Now the parts manager at Evansville Hyundai, the River City native was encouraged by his wife, Kristan, to meld his creative abilities into a new art form. “I never thought this would happen,” Chancellor says. “I’m glad some of the work is able to break down more of the stigma with how we talk about mental health, and specifically as it pertains to the punk scene or music scenes.” His first book, “Hardcore Anxiety,” was published in 2019 by Microcosm Publishing in Portland, Oregon. The novel sets the tone for his works to come and is grounded in his own mental health story. Chancellor’s refreshingly truthful storytelling lens doesn’t obscure the darker parts of life but delivers them to readers on a humble platter with a humorous glaze. Since then, he has published one book a year, writing and drawing each cartoon-styled comic by hand. Through Microcosm, Chancellor also published “Rock and Roll Terrorist,” the story of controversial musician GG Allin, in 2020; and has self-published several short-form pieces softening his trademark themes with nuanced jokes and fan comics. “I had never put myself out there in a way that was that direct,” Chancellor says. “Writing music, you can hide behind it a little bit more, whereas in ‘Hardcore Anxiety,’ it’s pretty straightforward. It’s like, ‘Oh, that’s a picture of me.’ It’s just right there.’” Chancellor’s work is available locally at Bluestocking Social, Your Brother’s Bookstore, and Atmosphere Collectibles as well as online. INKED UP reidchancellor.storenvy.com

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ON THE STAGE

ALL ABOUT THE BASS

Bruce Lett revels in life as an in-demand working musician BY ALAN PELL CRAWFORD IN RHYTHM Los Angeles-based Bruce Lett (second from left) enjoys a career as a sought-after live and studio jazz bassist, an impressive trajectory for the 1970s North High School graduate.

n a Monday night last spring at the Burbank Music Academy in Southern California, Bruce Lett hands out charts to the other members of his funk band. The song is a Chick Corea composition called “Armando’s Rhumba,” which they’ve never before played together. “I’m not sure what you’re going to do with it,” this product of Vogel Elementary and North High schools tells saxophone player Ed Wynne, who has recorded with Earth, Wind & Fire. “Sax or flute — you figure it out.” Since leaving the University of Evansville in the 1970s and studying upright bass as well as electric bass with some of the masters of the instrument at two colleges in the West, Lett has established himself as an in-demand “sideman,” traveling the world to back up some of the biggest names in jazz. “It was when I was at U of E that I decided to be a professional jazz musician,” Lett says the night after the practice, drifting along on his boat on Lake Malibu in the Santa Monica Mountains. “This meant I had to figure out how to make that happen.” The son of Horace “Chub” Lett and Margaret Lett, both now deceased, he had the benefit of a stable and supportive family, and encouragement from his mother, a jazz enthusiast herself. Despite never earning a degree, Lett teaches jazz bass at Califor-

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nia State University in Long Beach. Three years out of high school, he married the former Eve Oberlin, a North classmate who runs a pet-sitting service for her Agoura Hills neighbors. There was a time, before COVID-19, when Lett was playing “30 to 40” gigs a month, as well as backing other musicians on their recordings. He toured with Grammy-winning jazz songstress Diane Schuur but has never become too proud to play less prestigious gigs: For 30 years, he backed up the choir at a church in Redondo Beach for $150 a week. Things slowed down during the pandemic, however, and session work had already changed, thanks to technological advances. “The idea of a bunch of session musicians sitting down to-

gether and laying down a track in a studio, just doesn’t happen anymore,” Lett says. Today, he will be sent a recording done elsewhere. He then goes to a studio and plays his part over it, which is sent back, and eventually, technicians somewhere in the digital world beyond put all the pieces together. It is all done “remotely,” as we have learned to say. The band rehearsing at the Burbank Music Academy is called Six Beats Apart. “That’s our nod to social distancing,” Lett says. “We practiced together every week during the pandemic, and now that things are picking up again, we’re ready. I keep busy, and if you’re a professional musician, and you have nothing else scheduled, you take the gig.” Connections — when you have proved you have the chops and will deliver — are everything. “I once did a gig with Alphonse Mouzon, the jazz fusion drummer,” Lett says. “It paid $65, and we had to play for four hours. But that one gig alone led to five tours of Europe. You act like a professional, and you make your opportunities. That’s what being a working musician means.”

STREAMING SOON Tune in at 7 p.m. Sept. 4 to a broadcast of Lett’s Aug. 19 concert at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art at jazzandblues.org.

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Q&A BY RILEY GUERZINI

KIN: A MEMOIR By Shawna Kay Rodenberg 2021, Bloomsbury Publishing

“Though Mom believed in biblical submission and the dangers of the secular world, she was self-conscious about how we must look to other people, especially to family back in eastern Kentucky, who, broke as many of them were, thought my dad was crazy because of how and where we lived.” — page 6

Music for the Ages Philharmonic orchestra’s 2022-23 season will demonstrate musicians’ versatility BY RILEY GUERZINI

ENTERING ITS 88TH year,

Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra’s season promises to be one of the most ambitious to date. EPO will weave an eclectic selection of genres through 10 classics and pops concerts along with the return of the New Traditions Diversity Series and the renamed Uncorked Series. Evansville Living caught up with Music Director Roger Kalia to learn what to expect this season. EVANSVILLE LIVING: What is the main message behind this season’s theme? ROGER KALIA: “Inspired!” is

all about inspiring our community, especially … where everyone is feeling the effects of COVID-19 in the sense that they’ve been isolated. The music is meant to be an inspiring tool. We have some of the greatest, most inspirational music: Shostakovich’s fifth symphony, the Mozart Requiem. This is incredibly inspiring for our audience, but also for our musicians.

EL: How will this season bring

musicians and the audience closer? RK: It’s our mission to really connect with our audiences in new and creative ways. That’s one of the reasons why the Uncorked Series came to be: We wanted to connect in more informal ways with our audiences and show a different side to the musicians. EL: In which ways does this sea-

son differ from seasons past? RK: The eclectic nature and di-

verse offerings that the EPO is performing in terms of repertoire, collaborations, and guest artists. Not many orchestras are able to do this amount of music at a high level. My goal is to show the Tri-State and listeners from all over how diverse and versatile our musicians are in the sense that they can play everything from jazz to soul to baroque music to classical music to ballet music.

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“Kin” is a wrenching memoir of author and Evansville resident Shawna Kay Rodenberg’s Appalachian childhood, highlighting her personal and familial tragedies and the struggles of living in poverty-stricken Eastern Kentucky.

FINALLY By Roger Merryman 2022, Independently Published

“Ryan stands there as his face is about ready to crack with excitement as he gloatingly looks down at the picture perched on his desk of his sweetheart. Her picture rests in a black marble frame, which happens to be his favorite picture of her.” — page 4

Author Roger Merryman tells the story of Ryan Larkin, a wholesome young man searching for love when his life is turned upside down by unexpected events. Ryan ends up finding his lifelong partner in a fateful turn of events, finally ending the search for his perfect someone.

THE ROTATOR CUFF DIARIES: HOW AN IMPATIENT YOGI/ FASHION CONSCIOUS ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE RECOVERED FROM SHOULDER SURGERY By April Nading 2021, Independently Published

“I know from her experience that if you follow procedures and do what the doctor and the physical therapist say, it’s worth the additional pain and inconvenience. I was even starting to re-think having it done because it didn’t really hurt me all the time — mainly during yoga.” — page 1

“The Rotator Cuff Diaries,” written by Eyewitness News Account Executive April Nading, chronicles her story of the difficult and painful process of recovering from rotator cuff surgery. Nading’s rehabilitation story is meant to help prepare for what can be a long recovery journey.

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ART TALK

THE PATRON AND PAINTER

Katie Waters and Virginia Schroeder team up to cross university lines and create an indelible gift of artwork BY DALLAS CARTER

n the second floor of the University of Evansville’s Olmsted Administration Hall, President Christopher Pietruszkiewicz takes one last look at the Sesquicentennial Oval his office overlooks before stepping out. Scurrying off to a meeting, he gives his usual farewell to his executive assistant Patti Lippert, who smiles in turn, watching the president exit as the door shuts behind him. She’s still for a moment, making sure the coast is clear, and then she snaps into action, sending a quick text on her phone. “He’s gone! Come now!” A short while later, Katie Waters slips into the building, up the stairs, and into the office. On her way in, the artist and University of Southern Indiana emeritus art professor passes two paintings hung on either side of the door. Each depicts Harlaxton, UE’s British campus, and was gifted by Virginia Schroeder to former university presidents Thomas Kazee KATIE WATERS

and Stephen Jennings. Each was painted by Waters. “Mother had seen these paintings, and she just fell in love with it because she loves Harlaxton,” says Melissa Mattingly, Schroeder’s daughter. Schroeder is known in Evansville as a patron of the arts. She created an endowed chair called the Virginia G. Schroeder Curator of Collections at VIRGINIA SCHROEDER the Evansville Museum of Arts, History and Science. A longtime friend of Waters, Schroeder bought both paintings from her to honor each president. These purchases laid the groundwork for Schroeder’s next big gift to UE. In 2019, the then-95-year-old Schroeder approached Waters and asked if she could commission a painting to give Pietruszkiewicz and his family — wife Siobhan and sons Ryan and John — whom she met after his recent inauguration and immediately adored. “I’m humbled that she asked me,” Waters says. “I love her. She is one of the most fantastic women that I’ve ever had the privilege to do work for, and just delightful, such a supporter of the arts and of education.” The project was the reason for Waters’ covert visit. While Pietruszkiewicz was out of the office, Waters took source photos and made sketches of every detail of his desk, which was the painting’s subject matter. She visited seven times in total, even managing to take a picture of a card Pietruszkiewicz wrote to Schroeder. It took great effort and an impressive amount of coordination between Lippert, Waters, and Mattingly, who acted as a go-between for her mother during the COVID-19 pandemic and when Schroeder’s health started to decline. “It was an incredibly bad time with COVID hitting because now how does Katie communicate to Mother?” Mattingly says. “One of the good things that came out of this is just to see the alternate communication come up between these two ladies. It was a really beautiful personal and working relationship between both.” Waters finished her reference photos in fall 2020 and sequestered herself to begin creating the masterpiece. Only Mattingly and Schroeder were given glimpses of Waters’ progress, and Pietruszkiewicz still was in the dark. The process took several months. Waters started with a preliminary PERFECT PARTNERS Artist Katie Water created a custom commission for Virginia Schroeder from the studio in her riverside home during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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drawing and then completed a process called underpainting which defines the forms of objects in the composition using highlights, mid-tones, and shadows. This dull layer helped enhance the color pallet when Waters performed the overpainting, adding additional layers and colors. Waters added glazing to create richer color tonalities, and in early August 2021, the piece was complete. By this time Schroeder had turned 98 and moved into an assisted living facility. Since she wouldn’t be able to attend an official reveal, and COVID had squashed their plans for a large public event, the painting’s first look took place between Mattingly and Schroeder in the latter’s new home. Viewing a picture sent by Waters, along with a package of items explaining the symbolism, the mother-daughter duo was blown away by “Looking Over the Quad on an Autumn Morning (Note to Ginny).” “It was pretty emotional because my mother is elderly at this time,” says Mattingly. “It’s a beautiful painting, but it was the way everything just kind of came together in the right way at the right time.” The next step was to finally

IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER Schroeder purchased two previous works of Waters’, which now hang on either side of the President’s office at UE. The work gifted in honor of Pietruszkiewicz resides just down the hall in the administrative conference room.

give the gift to Pietruszkiewicz and Siobhan. Mattingly arranged for the couple to visit Ginny for a casual hello, but little did they know they would be presented with a picture of the painting made in their honor. Later that month, Mattingly also arranged a private meeting between herself, Waters and her husband Matthew Graham (Indiana’s Poet Laureate), the Pietruszkiewiczes, Libbert, and two UE students who recorded the event. Todd Matteson, chair of UE’s art department, also attended and unveiled the gift to the university president from behind a purple curtain. “I’m pleased and honored, honestly, to have three paintings at UE representing three presidents,” Waters says. “Even though I’m an emeritus professor at USI, I’m glad that over the years the connections between UE and USI have only strengthened.” The story of the determination of four local women to

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complete a selfless project, even in the face of personal and public health obstacles, won’t ever truly end, but Mattingly tops it off the same way she ended the formal reveal to Pietruszkiewicz — with words about her art-loving mother. “I wish Mother could be here today, but I know she is in our hearts,” she said at the time. “This would be a most meaningful day surrounded by the people she truly loves and admires, honoring Chris, Siobhan, and the university with a gift made possible by the supremely talented Katie Waters. She would be humbled and honored in being recognized today but would say to each one sitting here, ‘My idea? Yes, it was my idea, but it was all of you that made it possible.’”

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Editor’s Note: Event dates were accurate as of press time. Please check directly with the organization or venue for the latest event news before attending. If your organization would like to share events with Evansville Living, please email events@evansvilleliving.com.

JULY 18-23

Posey County 4-H Fair The annual fair includes a professional rodeo, corn hole tournament, free carnival rides, half-pot booth, antique tractor pull, and a demolition derby on Saturday.

THROUGH JULY 31 Our Summer 2022

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Start the summer off fun with Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library’s annual summer reading celebration “Our Summer 2022.” All EVPL locations. evpl.org

THROUGH JULY 31 Holidays in the Sky

Enjoy a nightly fireworks show with a DJ and dance party, 300 LED-lit drones, and lots of dazzling lights. 8:30 p.m. on days when the park closes at 8 p.m., 9 p.m. on days when the park closes at 9 p.m. Holiday World and Splashin’ Safari, 452 E. Christmas Blvd., Santa Claus, IN. holidayworld.com

JULY 15 Emo Nite with The Hot Topics

Emo/pop-punk cover band The Hot Topics’s songbook includes early 2000s pop-punk anthems from My Chemical Romance, Fall Out Boy, Simple Plan, and more. 8 p.m. STAGEtwo Productions, 321 N. Congress Ave. facebook.com/thehottopics

Posey County Fairgrounds, 111 Harmony Township Road, New Harmony, IN. poseycountyfair.com

JULY 19-24

Warrick County 4-H Fair See and participate in a Tugof-War competition, mud volleyball, garden tractor pull, livestock shows, and more at the Warrick County 4-H Fair. Warrick County Fairgrounds, 133 County Road 100 N., Boonville, IN. warrickcounty4hcenter.com

JULY 15-17

Youth Resources Alumni Weekend Youth Resource’s second Alumni Weekend is focused on reconnecting with alumni, hosting fun reunion events, and celebrating alumni. Virtual event. youth-resources.org

JULY 16-17 B-25J “Champaign Gal” Tour and Flights

“Champaign Gal,” a B-25J from the Champaign Aviation Museum of Urbana, Ohio, visits for public tours and flights. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Evansville Wartime Museum, 7503 Petersburg Road. 812-424-7461 or evansvillewartimemuseum.org

JULY 14

Music in the Park Enjoy games, family-friendly activities, and live music by the Better Than Nothin’ Band at Lorraine Park. Admission is free, and a half-pot raffle will take place. Free swimming is included at Lorraine Pool. 6-8 p.m. Lorraine Park, 2399 Adams Ave. evansvilleparksfoundation.org

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JULY 17

Celebrate the nature preserve’s 50th year as a nonprofit organization with an evening of dinner, live entertainment, trivia, giveaways, and a live auction.

The Evansville Vanderburgh School Corporation and EVSC Foundation present the 34th annual summer musical with a production of your favorite underwater sea creatures.

Wesselman Woods Green Gala

6-9 p.m. Bally’s Evansville Riverfront Event Center, 421 N.W. Riverside Drive. wesselmanwoods.org

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The SpongeBob Musical

7 p.m. July 14-16 and 2 p.m. July 17. Old National Events Plaza, 715 Locust St. info@evscfoundation.org P H OTOS P ROV ID ED

JULY 23

On The Roof Concert Series: The Randys and Madeline Wilkerson Enjoy a night of free live music on the roof of the Bower-Suhrheinrich Foundation Gallery. Seating is limited, and a cash bar will be available.

JULY 22

Don McLean Concert Honor the day the music died with Don McLean’s 50th anniversary “American Pie” tour at the Victory Theatre. 7 p.m. Victory Theatre, 600 Main St. 812-436-7050 or victorytheatre.com

7 p.m. Arts Council of Southwestern Indiana, 212 Main St. 812-303-3178 or artswin.org

JULY 27-30

Sandy Lee Watkins Songwriters’ Festival Four nights of intimate, acoustic live performances are staged in Henderson, Kentucky’s historic downtown. Downtown Henderson, KY. 270-8236141 or sandyleesongfest.com

JULY 29

Downtown Newburgh Nights Take advantage of extended shop hours and a congregation of food trucks before capping off the night with live music at Jennings Street Public House. 5 p.m. Downtown Newburgh, Indiana. 812-853-2815 or historicnewburgh.org

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FUN AT THE FAIR

xperience a week of entertainment and outdoor activities at the Vanderburgh County 4-H Fair with livestock shows, competitions, pageants, exhibits, and more. Monday features go-kart races, Tuesday sees the return of the 3 Bar J Rodeo, and country music artists Sean Stemaly and Michael Ray perform at the grandstand Wednesday. A farmers pull with garden tractors, ITPA trucks, and antique tractors is slated for Thursday, and Friday night features the Lucas Oil Pro Pulling League professional tractor pull. The fair concludes Saturday with a demolition derby. “I know people sometimes ask about the heat.

We do have air-conditioned buildings if you want to go in and relax and look at some of the indoor exhibits,” says publicity chairwoman Joan Mentzel. Admission is $10 for adults, and children under age 9 get in free. Weeklong fair passes cost $30. Midway rides are available for $3 per ticket or $22 for unlimited rides daily. — Riley Guerzini 8 a.m. Vanderburgh 4-H Center, 201 E. Boonville-New Harmony Road. vanderburghcountyfair.com

JULY 23

Freaks of Poetry Enjoy readings by regional poets Chad M. Horn, Hoosier Bill Sovern, Joseph “Colombo” Fulkerson, C.S. Matthews, and Jonathan S. Baker. 5 p.m. Your Brother’s Bookstore, 504 Main St. (812) 612-1222 or yourbrothersbookstore.com

JULY 30 Animal Enrichment Family Fun Day Discover the needs of different zoo animals in a day filled with games, educational programming, and animals. 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Mesker Park Zoo & Botanic Garden, 1545 Mesker Park Drive. 812-435-6143 or meskerparkzoo.com

JULY 30

Evansville Farmers Market Start the day at Borrowed Hearts’ Back 2 School Bash, then enjoy lunch, ice cream, and farm-fresh fare from vendors and food trucks. This event doubles as a First Responders Appreciation Day. 10 a.m. Washington Square Mall, 5001 Washington Ave. evansvillefarmersmarket.org

JULY 31

Gladys Knight in Concert

JULY 23 Summer of Funk

Discover more than 80 artists from throughout the region, food vendors, and live music at this summer art festival. 1 p.m. Haynie’s Corner Arts District, 1114 Parrett St. hayniescorner.com

See the seven-time Grammy-winning “Empress of Soul” as she performs songs from her nearly six-decade career. 8 p.m. Old National Events Plaza, 715 Locust St. 812-893-8732 or oldnationaleventsplaza.com JULY/AUGUST 2022 EVANSVILLE LIVING

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AUGUST 13

Brantley Gilbert in Concert American country rock singer Brantley Gilbert will perform from his selection of country hits like “Dirt Road Anthem,” “My Kinda Party,” and “You Don’t Know Her Like I Do.” 7:30 p.m. Ford Center, 1 S.E. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. 812-422-1515 or fordcenter.com

AUGUST 25

Keep the Ark Afloat Dinner and Auction Enjoy an evening of dinner, dessert, and an auction as part of Ark Crisis Children’s Center’s largest annual fundraiser. 5:30 p.m. Evansville Country Club, 3810 Stringtown Road. 812-423-9425 or arkcrisis.org/auction

YMCA 5K/10K

AUGUST 4-6

Germania Maennerchor Volksfest Slide into your dirndl or lederhosen for the annual German heritage festival. Enjoy authentic German food and beer, polka music by multiple brass bands, dancing, and more. Germania Maennerchor, 916 N. Fulton Ave. 812-422-1915 or evvgermanclub.com

AUGUST 25

Starting near the YMCA of Southwestern Indiana’s Downtown location, racers will complete a 5K or 10K, with proceeds benefitting YMCA youth programming, Camp Carson, Community Action Program, and more. 7 a.m. Ascension-St. Vincent YMCA, 516 Court St. ymcaswin.org

AUGUST 11

Music in the Park Enjoy games, family-friendly activities, and live music by Nick Hamilton at Vann Park. Admission is free, and a halfpot raffle will take place.

AUGUST 13

Vintage Vines 2022

Enjoy games, family-friendly activities, and live music by 2 Miles Back at Wesselman Park. Admission is free, and a half-pot raffle will take place.

Mesker Park Zoo and Botanic Garden hosts its annual black tie event, featuring a multicourse gourmet dinner and a live auction of unique wines and libations, experiences, zoo encounters, and more.

6-8 p.m. Wesselman Park, 551 N. Boeke Road. evansvilleparksfoundation.org

6 p.m. Bally’s Evansville, 421 N.W. Riverside Drive. meskerparkzoo. com/vintage-vines

Music in the Park

6-8 p.m. Vann Park, corner of Vann Avenue and Bayard Park Drive. evansvilleparksfoundation.org

AUGUST 25

Annual Right to Life Banquet of Southwest Indiana Pro-life advocate Abby Johnson will deliver the Life Testimony for special guest speaker, former Vice President Mike Pence. 6 p.m. Old National Events Plaza, 715 Locust St. 812-474-31954 or rtlswin.org

AUGUST 26-27

AUGUST 5

Newburgh Fiddler Fest

Haynie’s Corner First Fridays Art, live music by Retro Shock, street performers, food and drink vendors, and more fill the streets of Haynie’s Corner Arts District. 5:30 p.m. Haynie’s Corner, 114 Parrett St. hayniescorner.com

AUGUST 12-13

Bluegrass in the Park Folklife Festival 2022 This weekend of live music, children’s activities, food, and folklife displays includes artisan merchants, artist workshops, and a 5K. 4-10 p.m. Friday and 7 a.m.-10 p.m. Saturday. Audubon Mill Park, 123 N. Water St., Henderson, KY. bluegrassinthepark.com

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Dig into deep fried catfish fiddlers and enjoy live bands and a beer garden with Friends of Newburgh, Inc. 5 p.m. Friday and noon Saturday. Old Lock and Dam Park, French Island Trail, Newburgh, IN. friendsofnewburgh.com P H OTOS P ROV I D E D

SEPTEMBER AUGUST 27

Geek and Comic-Con This family-friendly event includes panels and presentations, hands-on activities, board games, a vendor room, and a cosplay contest. 11 a.m. Evansville Museum of Arts, History, and Science, 411 S.E. Riverside Dr. emuseum.org

SEPTEMBER 10

Fun and Games in the Park

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The 2022 Korn Ferry Tour Season will conclude Labor Day Weekend at Victoria National Golf Club in Newburgh, Indiana.

Benefiting Easterseals Rehabilitation Center, this adult golf scramble will feature a hole-in-one, longest drive, and closest-to-the-pin contests, lunch, awards dinner, and goodie bags.

Teams of two to six people will compete in fun and interactive challenges and games stationed around Roberts Park. Once teams complete a minimum number of challenges, they can submit an entry card for a chance to win a team prize. Prizes are also awarded for best team name/theme. Cost is $30 per team.

8 a.m. Cambridge Golf Course, 1034 Beacon Hill. evansvillerehab.com

10 a.m. Roberts Park, 2800 Division St. 11 a.m.-1 p.m. evansvilleparksfoundation.org

United Leasing & Finance Korn Ferry Tour Championship

Victoria National Golf Club, 2000 Victoria National Blvd. Newburgh, IN. 812-430-6737 or lcates@tourvisionpromotions.com

Easterseals Golfing Fore Kids

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AUGUST 27

Gary Allan Ruthless Tour Country music artist Gary Allan returns to the Old National Events Plaza with “The Ruthless Tour: 25 Years the Hard Way.” 7:30 p.m. Old National Events Plaza, 715 Locust St. 812-893-8732 or oldnationaleventsplaza.com

AUGUST 28

Kentucky Shine at the Lincoln Amphitheatre As part of the Lincoln Amphitheatre’s “Amp Unplugged” Sunday series, Kentucky Shine will bring their emerging bluegrass talents to the stage. 4 p.m. Lincoln Amphitheatre, 15032 E. County Road 1500, Lincoln City, IN. lincolnamphiteatre.com

AUGUST 26-28

STREET ROD RALLY

he 47th Annual Frog Follies hosted by the E’ville Iron Street Rod Club will feature more than 4,000 vintage street rods from across the country — as well as games, activities, dances, and more — in what has become the largest pre-1949 street rod event in the world. Named after a bull frog race that took place at the first event in 1975, the Frog Follies swap meet is one of the largest in the nation.

The commercial street rod vendor area includes new and old parts to build or enhance the classic cars, making it the place to be for those looking for car parts. The entrance fee is $7 per spectator, and children under the age of 12 can enter for free. A portion of the

proceeds will benefit Easterseals Rehabilitation Center, which provides services to children and adults with disabilities. — Riley Guerzini 8 a.m. Vanderburgh 4-H Center, 201 E. Boonville-New Harmony Road. frogfollies.org

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Culture

SOCIAL LIFE

SUSAN TROMLEY’S BIRTHDAY PARTY June 1, Main Street Family Dental Patrick Tromley, Chronos the llama, and Susan Tromley

P H OTO P R OV I D E D BY F R A N K PAT TO N J R .

MEMORIAL DAY CEREMONY May 28, Rose Hill Cemetery Carol Sievers, Shannon Porter Backer, Lori Baumhoer, and Marme Potts

P H OTO P R OV I D E D BY T H E J D S H E T H F O U N DAT I O N

P H OTO P R OV I D E D BY S T E V E G E I S

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OVER THE EDGE 4 GRANTED VIP RAPPELLING EVENT April 29, CenterPoint Energy headquarters 1. Ellie-Jane Pfingston and Jennifer Rhoades 2. Granted Wish Child Ellie-Jane Pfingston, her family, Granted board members, and OTE 4 Granted volunteers

ROXANE AND FRANK PATTON JR. 29TH ANNIVERSARY DINNER March 19, House of Como Ben Shoulders, Kenneth Walker, Jerwonda Walker, Shannon Shoulders, Roxane Patton, Frank Patton Jr., Tracy Harms-Bedwell, and Scott Bedwell

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JD SHETH FOUNDATION YARD CLEANUP April 30, Lucas Place II Kim Wren and Kelly Sanders

P H OTO P R OV I D E D BY S A B I N E WAT H E N

ART IN THE GARDEN June 12, Southwestern Indiana Master Gardener Association Display Garden Diane Mason

DOWNTOWN EVANSVILLE ECONOMIC IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT SIDEWALK SALE May 7, Main Street Maeve Cameron and Frankie the dog

P H OTO BY J O D I K E E N

P H OTO P R OV I D E D BY P EG G Y H A R D E S T Y

GINA MOORE BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION June 9, Reitz Home Museum Cindy Prow Engleman, Deanne Gunn Faughn, Gina Moore, and Sandy Pfettscher Atkins

P H OTO P R OV I D E D BY S T E V E G E I S

P H OTO P R OV I D E D BY G I N A M O O R E

2021 EGYPT TRAVEL GROUP REUNITES FOR LUNCH May 7, Texas Roadhouse Left table, from left: Jim Wathen, Leona and Alan Keller, Scott and Janet Baas, Sabine Wathen, and Jeanne and Vernon Goedde. Right table, from left: John and Janice Lloyd, Barbara Zellerino, Sherry and Gary Stute, Linda Keck, and Donna Lawler.

JEFFREY BERGER AND MARIETTA June 18, Green RODRIGUEZ WEDDING River Distillery, Owensboro, Kentucky Todd Hardesty, Marietta Rodriguez, Jeffrey Berger, and Peggy Hardesty

DOWNTOWN EVANVILLE ECONOMIC IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT AND KEEP EVANSVILLE BEAUTIFUL VOLUNTEERS June 14, Riverside Drive Lacey Scharine and Joni Mestas JULY/AUGUST 2022 EVANSVILLE LIVING

Sporting Life

APPALACHIAN TRAIL

TALES OF THE TRAIL

Evansville native finds solace through one of the world’s most daunting outdoor experiences BY RILEY GUERZINI

OFF THE BEATEN PATH When he isn’t exploring the vast mountains, forests, and valleys of the East Coast or nearby region, Jason Austin infuses his adventurous nature with his work as the production director at Midwest Communications in Evansville. Listen to “Jason A” rock Evansville’s airwaves on WABX 107.1 weekdays from 3-7 p.m.

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n March 9, 2008, Jason Austin set off on a hike that would change his life. Through a grueling 2,190-mile, seven-month journey, the Evansville native became one of 21,553 people in the world to complete the Appalachian Trail in what he says is one of the most difficult, yet eye-opening experiences of his life. The Appalachian Trail (resolutely pronounced “Appa-latch-un” by nearby residents) is the longest hiking-only footpath in the world. Commonly referred to as the A.T., hiking the entire Eastern U.S. trail stretching from Georgia to Maine is a grueling undertaking through mountainous terrain, forests, and cliffs. Of the 6,000 hikers the Appalachian Trail Conservancy estimates will attempt to reach the A.T.’s final destination at Maine’s Mount Katahdin this year, approximately 15 percent will succeed. “It’s a very enlightening experience,” says Austin, the production director at Midwest

Communications. “It totally turns you into a completely different person, a better person. If you can finish it, the things that you thought mattered before will seem trivial after that.” Austin’s love of the outdoors and obsession with the Appalachian Trail started when he was 10. His grandmother, Catherine Laughary, fostered his love of the outdoors by taking him to regional trails including Wesselman Woods in Evansville and John James Audubon State Park in Henderson, Kentucky. He always wanted to make these hikes last forever; the fresh outdoors, the serenity of the woods, his connection to nature, the detachment from a busy society. One day, his grandmother suggested he really make it last by hiking the Appalachian Trail. An inspired young Austin committed to learning everything he could about the A.T., going down a rabbit hole of research and discovery. He spent hours reading

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before heading back out to Springer Mountain on March 9, 2008 — this time alone — to accomplish his lifelong dream. “In the beginning, it takes about a month for your body to really get adjusted to what you’re doing,” Austin says. “You really don’t want to do more than eight miles a day in the beginning until you get your hiker body, until you start having what they call hiker hunger. That’s when your body’s ready and you can’t eat enough food, because you’re burning so many calories.” Hiking the Appalachian Trail is an experience like no other, Austin says. Time slows down. Regular life pleasantries such as watching TV shows or playing sports become irrelevant. The only things that matter are the necessities: filtering water, setting up or finding shelter, and making sure to eat enough to get through the trails. Austin himself lost 20 pounds while hiking. One week on the trail, a hiker explained to Austin, equals a month in regular life. A month on the A.T. is equivalent to a year. When he finally returned to Evansville after seven months, Austin felt like he had been gone for seven years. Thru-hikers, a term used for those traversing the trail from start to finish, follow what is called a “white blaze,” a white mark painted on trees to mark the trail. Other paths follow a “blue

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thick, personal diaries of those who hiked the trail. Already obsessed with reading maps and trail routes, he was determined to hike the A.T. one day. Once he entered high school and college and life became busier, the dream of hiking the trail subsided. Still, Austin couldn’t quite forget the A.T. “Next thing you know, I had I guess a midlife crisis in my thirties,” says Austin, who was working at a different radio station in Evansville at the time. “I remember coming home one day, and I was like, ‘When was I the happiest? I was the happiest when I was camping and hiking. Where did that dream go?’ That’s when I decided I wanted to hike the Appalachian Trail.” His first expedition on the trail came in 2005. Joined by his cousin Brad Laughary, Austin ventured to Georgia’s Springer Mountain, the southern terminus of the A.T., and hiked the 78-mile section north through Georgia in one week. When Austin returned home, all he could think about was getting back on the trail. “I couldn’t get it out of my head. I couldn’t get out of how it made me feel every morning waking up to the sound of birds, the basic essentials of not being in a rush and waking up and filtering my water, making breakfast,” he says. “All I have to do is pack up my home, put it in this bag, and take my time and walk and climb mountains and see all these things.” Austin began prepping for a return to the trail, this time hiking all 2,190 miles. Already in good shape, he didn’t do anything to physically prepare, but he diligently compiled the equipment needed — headlamps, water filter, waterproof bags, tent, water bottle, sleeping pad — for what would be a seven-month trek. “There’s nothing you can do to prepare you to hike and climb up mountains every day, all day long, but you can prepare yourself by getting your gear together,” he says. “A lot of people get obsessed with their gear and their food, and they try to plan every day out. You can mail yourself food, a care package. My family did that. They mailed me food along the trail.” He went a step further too, letting his apartment lease expire, donating a majority of his possessions to Goodwill, and quitting his job. He narrowed everything down to a backpack of essentials and stored his furniture at his parents’ house. He traveled the country for about a year

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TRAIL MAGIC Since 2020, Austin has returned to the trail every spring to cook and deliver pizzas to hikers with his cousin Brad, a hospitality gesture referred to by hikers as “trail magic.”

blaze,” which marks shortcuts and avoids climbs, and a “yellow blaze” for hitchhikers. Austin traveled on and off with other hikers throughout his journey. Toward the middle of the trail, he traveled with a group for hundreds of miles, humorously calling themselves “Camp Delay” for their consistent stops after finding a good camping spot. Austin finished the A.T. in Maine on Oct. 11, 2008. He says completing the trail didn’t bring the happiness and excitement he had anticipated.

“They call it trail depression. It definitely gets you when you’re down,” he says. “It hits people in different ways, because you’ve spent six months of your life living this way, and all you’ve done is hiked and met amazing people and seen these amazing things and had these crazy experiences. Then all of a sudden, you’re done and back in society and some people, what they thought they wanted to do, they don’t want to do now, or in my case, I didn’t want to leave.” After returning home, a friend invited Austin to move to a cabin in North Carolina. He accepted, thinking it would help him escape his depression. In North Carolina, he worked at a ski lodge for three winters and staffed a traveling food booth for music festivals for seven years. During this time, Austin returned to the trail in 2011, 2013, and 2015, only hiking sections. After his 2015 hike, he was admitted into the hospital for reasons neither he nor doctors could explain. Months later, he was diagnosed with severe Lyme disease. Austin’s case of Lyme disease — an

inflammatory illness caused by bacteria transmitted by ticks and not uncommon among some A.T. hikers, though doctors weren’t sure if it was from the trail — took a toll on him and prevented him from hiking for several years. It wasn’t until 2019 when he was accepted into the Johns Hopkins Lyme Disease Research Center in Baltimore, Maryland, that Austin decided to venture back out to the trail, just to catch a glimpse of the white blazes and reignite a passion that had been instilled in him since he was 10. “My mom took me out to the Shenandoah National Park, and that was the first white blaze I had seen in four years,” he says. “I just remember breaking down, saying, ‘I can’t let this be what happens to me. I can’t let this win.’ That was sort of the beginning of trying to figure out what I needed to do.” Austin found that the way to get his “energy back” was through trail magic, which refers to any hospitality offered to hikers on their journey. Trail magic comes in the form of a cooler filled with drinks left for hikers, or someone grilling hamburgers

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off the trail, or a sign that says “leave your trash here” for a volunteer to collect. In 2020, Austin made his own trail magic, delivering pizzas to a shelter at Davenport Gap just outside the Smoky Mountains in Tennessee, much to the surprise and delight of hikers. “By that time, you’ve spent seven days hiking through the Smokies and three days hiking from Gatlinburg,” he says. “By the time I got there, I knew I wanted a shower and I wanted pizza. It just felt so good to get that energy from these people.” Austin has turned his new passion into an annual adventure. He returns every March with his cousin Brad to deliver pizzas and cook sausage, egg, and cheese croissants at different spots along the trail. The pair even hand out small bags of candy at Garenflo Gap in North Carolina. This renewed connection to the Appalachian Trail has eased the pain of Austin’s departure from hiking. He says he hopes to hike again on the trail but isn’t sure if his Lyme disease will allow it. “It’s one of those things that once you do it, you can’t get it out of your system,” he says. “You can’t get it out of your blood. Unless you’ve done it, you don’t understand it. If you haven’t gone out there and experienced it for a week and enjoyed it, you don’t really understand it.”

HEART OF A HIKER Austin has traveled the A.T. multiple times throughout the last two decades, thru-hiking the trail in 2008 and hiking sections in 2005, 2011, 2013, and 2015.

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Travel Journal

KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE

EAST MEETS BEST

Three eastern Tennessee towns invoke cosmopolitan flair and hometown hospitality STORY AND PHOTOS BY LAURA MATHIS

he Tennessee state flag is easily recognizable with its three white stars in a blue circle on a field of crimson red. The stars represent the western, middle, and eastern parts of the state, each with its own signature flair. I have visited bluesy Memphis a few times, and I have lived in Nashville, so I was thrilled to explore Knoxville, Jonesborough, and Greeneville in eastern Tennessee. KNOCKING AROUND IN KNOXVILLE

My trip was in early October, so the trees hadn’t quite turned to the golden brush strokes of fall. But it was the perfect time to take in the sights and sounds of these vibrant towns nestled in the foothills of the Smoky Mountains. Our first destination was Knoxville, and because it wasn’t a football weekend (Neyland Stadium at the University of Tennessee is the nation’s fifth largest at 102,455 seats), our group was able to enjoy our stay unfettered and relaxed. We checked into the Tennessean Hotel, which stands on the site of the 1982 World Fair Headquarters. The AAA Four Diamond property features 82 luxurious guest rooms and creates a running theme of the Tennessee River throughout its chic, elegant decor. Once we were settled, we headed to historic Old City on the northeastern side of Downtown. The name became popular in the 1980s when architectural preservationists began to take notice of the historical significance of buildings that once housed companies like White Lily Flour. Today, it is a mix of live music venues, shops, and city loft-condominiums. For dinner, we were treated to the globally inspired Vida and The Vault. Vida is on the main level of the old Holston Bank building on popular Gay Street. Grandly appointed, the restaurant was buzzing with patrons and the Pan-Asian food was intriguing and unexpected in this Southern city. Below the restaurant

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ALL IS FAIR Knoxville was the site of the 1982 World’s Fair, and its iconic Sunsphere, located in World’s Fair Park in downtown Knoxville, is a 266-foot high hexagonal steel truss structure, topped with a 75-foot gold-colored glass sphere. The Knoxville Museum of Art celebrates regional art like the “Singing Mural” by Marion Greenwood, 1955.

is The Vault, a speakeasy in — what else? — the bank’s vault. A visit to the Knoxville Museum of Art kicked off our first full day. The 53,200-square-foot facility specializes in regional historical and contemporary art pieces. Painted in 1955 by Marion Greenwood, the 30-foot “Singing Mural” canvas

was my favorite for its illustration of the distinctive music styles of the state’s main divisions: the delta blues of West Tennessee, country music of Middle Tennessee, and religious and country music of East Tennessee. Gay Street runs through Downtown and is a home to the historic Tennessee Theatre, galleries, parks, eclectic shops,

WALKING TOUR A day spent walking around in historic Old City and on popular Gay Street offers plenty of shopping, dining, and entertainment options. The Phoenix Pharmacy and Fountain offers handmade ice cream treats, while Pretentious Beer and PretentiousGlass serves craft brews in an artisian glass — made on site. Jonesborough is storytelling central, and Bob Dunn of Heritage Alliance of Northeast Tennessee and Southwest Virginia guides visitors through a town where time stands still.

bars, and more that 75 restaurants within one square mile. After a walking tour of the area, we were treated to the best sweets stop at the Phoenix Pharmacy and Fountain, an independently owned and operated full-service compounding pharmacy and authentic soda fountain. They specialize in handmade ice cream treats, decadent sundaes, hand-spun shakes, ice cream floats, and of course, fountain sodas. I couldn’t resist the Nana’s Pudding sundae made with “granny’s” oatmeal crisps, two scoops of vanilla bean ice cream, sliced bananas, and butterscotch, and topped with whipped cream and pecans. If craft beer is more your speed, Knoxville boasts nearly 20 breweries on its Ale Trail. First, head to Knox Brew Hub to sample many of the area’s best on tap. Like a visitor’s center for beer, KBH tries to carry every local craft beer in the region. While you’re there, book a Knox Beer Tour to discover Knoxville’s beer scene. For a completely different brewery experience, check out Pretentious Beer and Pretentious Glass Companies. Housed together but in separate spaces, you can grab one of their 16 beer specialty brews on tap while you watch the artisans blow glassware and other objects.

JOURNEY TO JONESBOROUGH

Approximately 95 miles northeast of Knoxville, walking the streets of Jonesborough is akin to stepping back in time. “Tennessee’s Oldest Town” was founded in 1779 and is located in the heart of the southern Appalachian Mountains. Perfectly preserved and filled with historic charm, this small town of 5,500 is deeply rooted in storytelling and historic preservation. In the middle of Main Street sits the Chester Inn Museum, located in the oldest commercial building in town and chronicles Jonesborough’s history. Built in 1797, the inn is a state-owned historic site operated by the Heritage Alliance of Northeast Tennessee and Southwest Virginia. There we met our town tour guide Bob Dunn, a spritely gentleman dressed for a day of touring. Storytelling is at the heart of Jonesborough. Next to the museum, the International Story Telling Center is devoted to preserving Southern folklore through the spoken word; lectures and events are held throughout the year and every October the city hosts the National Story Telling Festival. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the festival, which takes place Oct. 7-9. Up the road on a bluff and visible from the town below is the marriage of history and entrepreneurship found in the Tennessee Hills Distillery. Situated in the 1840s Salt House, which was used to store salt in the Civil War, owners Stephen JULY/AUGUST 2022 EVANSVILLE LIVING

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and Jessica Callahan today take locally sourced grain and Appalachian spring water from the mountains to distill bourbon, whiskey, gin, vodka, and rum. Many have flavored varieties such as lemon drop corn whiskey, pecan pie rum, and — my favorite — S.E. Callahan’s blood orange and honey whiskey. We stayed overnight at the historic

Eureka Inn, originally a private residence when it was constructed in 1797. It also has been a boarding house, jury sequester room, ground-floor grocery store, and restaurant and is now an inn with 13 uniquely decorated rooms creating a captivating blend of past and present. That night, we watched a rainstorm roll through town from the second-floor balcony while rocking in chairs

and sipping the aforementioned blood orange and honey whiskey. It was sublime. GOING TO GREENEVILLE

Heading back to Knoxville, we drove to Greeneville, Tennessee’s second oldest town and the hometown and burial place of President Andrew Johnson. Lunch was served at the Catalyst Coffee Company, where we feasted on delicious pizzas and sandwiches with the knowledge that every purchase has a portion of its profits donated back to the community. The life and history of our 17th president is on display at the Andrew Johnson National Historic Site and National Cemetery. Although Johnson was a tailor by trade, he worked his way through state and national politics, starting with his election as an alderman of Greeneville in 1829. An afternoon journey on a small portion of the Appalachian Trail (see Jason Austin’s journey on the trails on page 36) through the Cherokee National Forest was a peaceful retreat and my favorite part of the trip. Some of our crew took the 2.4-mile outand-back journey to Margarette Falls, and the moderately challenging trek led us to

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A CUT ABOVE Sirloin Classic, versatile top loin that is perfect for the grill.

Filet Mignon Tenderloin cut. French for “dainty fillet.”

Ground Chuck Fattier meat from the shoulders. Not to be confused with leaner, made-from-leftover-cuts ground beef.

Chicken Thigh or breast. Light or dark. It’s a great choice for the heart.

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Even for devoted carnivores, meat selection can be confusing. Choose the right cut of meat to grill with tips from the pros at the Old Fashioned Butcher Shoppe

Tomahawk Bone-in ribeye. Toss on the grill for the “wow” factor. T-Bone Top-tier marbled cut from the short loin and held together by bone.

NY Strip A specialty short loin cut. Made famous in the 1800s by Delmonico’s Restaurant in New York City.

Pork Roast Wide and thick cut from the ribs. Choose for extra flavor and juices.

Pork Chop A lean cut that’s part rib or vertebra. Use for versatility with side dishes.

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Recipes

Grilled Goods Stack your menu with these mouthwatering headliners.

Grilled Salmon By Jeff Raymond

Shrimp Scampi By Jeff Raymond

Ingredients:

6 cups water ⅓ cup salt ¼ cup sugar 1 small shallot ½ teaspoon minced garlic

Few sprigs of dill and cilantro Zest of ½ small lemon Salmon fillets, about 1 ½ inch thick Alder or cedar plank

In a wide dish, blend ingredients, then pour over salmon fillets. Refrigerate for 3 ½ hours. Soak alder or cedar plank in water for at least two hours. Place plank directly on grid and heat to about 400 degrees. When plank starts to smoke, remove and place salmon skin side down on the smoked side of plank. Cook about 15 to 20 minutes, or until salmon flakes when pierced.

Tomahawk Steak By The Big Green Egg 1 five-rib tomahawk

Directions:

Sea salt Freshly ground black pepper

Ignite charcoal and heat grill to 275 degrees. Remove any skin from tomahawk and scrape ribs clean with a small knife. Place a roasting rack in a rectangular drip pan, and then place tomahawk on top. Put drip pan on grill’s cooking grid and insert a meat thermometer into core of the meat. Set thermometer to 120 degrees. Close grill lid and let tomahawk cook for approximately four hours, or until the set core temperature has been reached. Remove drip pan from grill and replace grid with a cast iron grid. Heat grill to 480 degrees. Cut between ribs to divide tomahawk into separate steaks. Place steaks directly on cast iron grid and close grill lid. Turn meat a quarter turn after about one minute, and then close grill lid again. Flip the meat after another minute, repeating on both sides for an equal finish. Upon removal, season with sea salt and pepper.

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2 teaspoons minced garlic 2 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley 2 tablespoons white wine 1 tablespoon lemon juice Salt and pepper to taste

Directions:

Ingredients:

1 pound large shrimp (raw, peeled, de-veined with tails on) 1 stick butter 2 tablespoons olive oil

Melt butter and oil at 400 degrees. Add minced garlic (do not burn garlic). Add shrimp and cook 4-7 minutes or until opaque and firm. Do not overcook shrimp. Remove shrimp from butter. Stir in remaining ingredients; cook for one minute while stirring. Add shrimp while lightly tossing in mixture, and then serve.

Sausage Kabobs By Chelsea’s Messy Apron Ingredients:

12 ounces smoked sausage, cut into 1.5-inch pieces 3 bell peppers, cut into 1-inch pieces ½ of 1 large red onion, cut into 1-inch pieces 10 large baby bella mushrooms, whole or halved

Directions:

4 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil 2 teaspoons dried oregano 1 tablespoon dried parsley flakes ½ teaspoon garlic power 1 teaspoon paprika Sea salt and freshly cracked pepper 4 wooden kabob skewers

Heat grill to 450 degrees. Soak wooden skewers in water 20-30 minutes. In a large bowl, mix the vegetables and sausage. Add olive oil, oregano, parsley, garlic powder, and paprika, and salt and pepper to taste. Stir to combine seasonings. Slide alternating pieces of seasoned vegetables and sausage onto skewers and place on the grill. Cook for 3-4 minutes at 450 degrees. Flip onto other side and cook an additional 3-4 minutes or until vegetables and sausage are slightly charred.

Pitmaster Jim Johnson helps you avoid the pitfalls of cooking ribs

Getting fall-off-the-bone barbecue has its challenges. Seventy-eight-time grand champion pitmaster Jim Johnson shares his list of do’s and don’ts for your next backyard barbecue. DO Keep It Low and Slow Johnson recommends cooking ribs anywhere from 225 to 275 degrees for three to five hours. Cook time depends on the cuts of meat, which have different fat contents that require a longer stay in the smoker. DO Decide If Meat Should Grill or Smoke “A burger has been ground up, and it will cook evenly all the way through,” Johnson says. “A rib or a pork shoulder has connective tissue. It needs a longer period of time exposed to heat to break all that down and make it soft and tender so it falls off the bone.” DON’T Add Sauce until the End Apply sauce too early, and it can become gummy or even burn. “The minute we add any ingredient that has sugar or tomato-based product, such as barbecue sauce, over an open flame, it over-caramelizes and turns black long before the product’s finished,” Johnson says. “Always add your sauce at the very end, about 15-30 minutes before removing it.” DON’T Put Bark in Your Bite Remember to trim the bark off the wood before adding it to the smoker. Johnson warns that mold, mildew, and insects that gather on bark will give your meat an “off flavor.” Also, be careful not to add too much wood to avoid over-smoking your food. Find more barbecue tips from Johnson at bbqbyjimjohnson.com.

Build Your Own BURGER Who doesn’t love a juicy burger loaded with their favorite toppings and wedged in a warm bun? But there is more than “meats” the eye, so Jeff Raymond, chef at Bassemier’s Fireplace, Patio & Spa, teaches us how to craft the perfect patty at home. STEP 1: Choose Your Meat Burgers can be made from just about anything: elk, bison, salmon, black beans, and even portobello mushrooms. Poultry versions have less grease and fat but require more bonding ingredients to hold the patty together. Veggie burgers are also intricate, but many pre-made options are appetizing. Fat percentage is a key factor in beef, which is sold in several fat varieties, the most common being 80 percent lean beef and 20 percent fat, 92/8, and 73/27. 80/20 beef is recommended for its optimal moisture retention. Beef quality also is important. Raymond says Wagyu beef is a type of prime beef often considered a premium choice for burgers because it has a more even fat distribution than Angus. STEP 2: Assemble an Assortment of Ingredients Create your burger mix with seasonings of your choice. Although not traditionally used for patties, panko breadcrumbs give burgers a lighter texture. Adding grated butter can create a juicier burger but isn’t necessary with higher-fat beef. Place beefsteak tomato, lettuce, onion, and then condiments like mayo — in that order — in between the patty and top bun to keep the tomato slices from sliding out and lettuce from wilting. Set cheese below the patty to shield the bottom bun from getting soggy. STEP 3: Shape the Patty This is important: Keep the beef cool. Try chilling the beef before you start shaping and be sure not to overwork it. Keep your hands damp to limit sticking and heat transfer. Smashing a burger is the best way to shape it. Crush it thinly on the grill for a classic smashburger or press it between a shape, like deli container lids, for a consistent, hands-free thickness. Another insider trick: Raymond presses a half-inch thumbprint into thicker patties’ centers to help them hold their shape and cook evenly. JULY/AUGUST 2022 EVANSVILLE LIVING

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Pros and cons of traditional and luxury grills The debate over backyard grilling fires up over classic, low-key charcoal grills and gas-powered machines with extra burners, dials, and controls. But the argument plays off more than just gadgets. Cost per use and the cook’s proficiency play into which grill is the better fit. Here’s a comparison of two grills by Weber, the king of cookouts.

Classic Grills Sometimes less is more. Detached from all the bells and whistles of luxury equipment, a traditional charcoal grill is the way to go for those wanting a simple, easy way to get those hamburgers and hotdogs off the grate and into your belly.

Wood Wood smoke imparts a bolder flavor. Use harder woods like hickory or oak for a stronger smoke, or stick to softer wood like apple or cherry for a milder flavor.

Charcoal Briquettes heat fast and stay hot. Once you light your charcoal, wait for the coal to ash, or “gray over,” before cooking to avoid releasing carcinogens into your food.

Portability — This may seem obvious, but the simpler, traditional grills are smaller than their high-tech counterparts, making them easier to transport. Weber’s original kettle grill, for instance, weighs only 33 pounds.

Hankering for a tasty cutlet off a Weber grill? There’s an eatery for that. Visit the Weber Grill Restaurant for hot-off-the-grill steaks, burgers, and ribs the next time you’re in Downtown Indianapolis.

Cost — Generally, classic grills can cost hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars less than luxury grills. The trade-off is they may not last as long.

Luxury Grills

Depending on how often you grill, upgrading to gas-powered, more advanced equipment can save you time, enhance flavor, and make grilling a luxurious experience. Better Burners — Gas grills have longer-lasting burners and more heat control, allowing food to cook separately at different temperatures. Some grills, like the Weber Genesis, also come with a side burner for searing.

Propane Though the results aren’t as flavorful, this is a convenient, easy-to-control heat source.

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Durability — A high-quality gas grill can last a decade or more and uses energy more efficiently, giving it a cost-per-use edge over a cheaper charcoal grill if you plan to fire it up frequently. P H OTO S P R OV I D E D

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The Big Green Egg proves its worth in the wide range of unconventional foods it can bring to a crisp finish.

Versatile Big Green Egg grills, smokes, bakes, and more

Designed with input from NASA — true story — the Big Green Egg is stylish, versatile, and perfect for cooking up some unconventional grill foods.

Pizza Raise the grid up so your pizza doesn’t directly sit on the grill, which will overcook the crust. At 750 degrees, a New Yorkstyle pie can cook in two minutes.

Green Machine The distinctive grill is popular for its relatively touch-safe ceramic coating and increased health consciousness. Carcinogens are caused by heat loss-induced meat drips that then smoke back up in the meat. In contrast, the Big Green Egg’s thermal insulation helps lock heat into the outer walls, keeping food condensation to a minimum.

Pineapple Don’t shy away from using alcohol in a marinade, like in this rum-soaked pineapple dessert. It vaporizes during grilling, leaving a subtle taste without the ethanol.

Cake Convection grilling comes in handy for this pineapple cherry chocolate cake. Dump your ingredients in an aluminum pan and use indirect cooking to bake to a decadent dish. G R I L L P H OTO P R OV I D E D

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Summer

Queen

Corn rules the Midwest backyard barbecue

Corn is king on Midwestern grill grids, with Indiana-grown Silver Queen taking the top prize. Known for its tender kernels, this white sweet corn is revered for its versatility, adding sweetness to salsa or a crunch to fritters. But a seared, seasoned cob is still a grilling favorite. Here’s an inside tip from Bassemier’s chef Jeff Raymond for the perfect finish. Wrap the husk in foil and grill for 10 minutes, rotating cob every 2-3 minutes. Remove the cob from heat, pull back the foil and husk, and remove the silk. Butter and season the corn cob as desired, then wrap the tail end in foil, replace husk, and place cob back on the grill for another 10 minutes. This way, the partially foil-wrapped cob picks up a little bit of char and ends up with a nice, bruised finish. Remove from heat, pull off the foil and husk, and let cob slightly cool before serving.

SIDES

1. Bread pudding with blueberries, white chocolate chips, and lemon sauce Grill over indirect heat until the edges are toasted.

2. Jim Johnson's famous baked beans

Jim’s famous recipe is topped with smoked pulled pork.

3. Onion dip

This dip’s heavenly taste starts with a fire-roasted onion.

4. Bacon-wrapped carrots Healthy “meats” savory in these pigs-in-a-blanket.

5. Jalapeño cole slaw

Pineapple chunks offset the spice of the jalapeños.

Find recipes for these side dishes at evansvilleliving.com.

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Flavor and Savor Treat your meat with these homegrown spices

Sande Thomas

Keep It Cool

Add a fresh splash of fruit to your fired-up fare with watermelon gazpacho During the summer heat, Sande Thomas stays cool with a fresh twist on gazpacho. A cold soup hailing from Spain, gazpacho traditionally has a tomato base and blended vegetables, but Thomas swaps in watermelon for a sweet spin. “Watermelon is the essence of childhood. There’s nothing cleaner tasting, sweet, and cold on a hot summer day,” she says. “Cooking with what’s fresh and in the peak of season is what makes food taste great.” Here’s an insider tip straight from Sande: “The watermelon grown in Kentucky are some of the very best I’ve had this year!”

Ingredients:

1 large tomato, cubed ½ serrano or jalapeño pepper, seeded 2 cups cubed watermelon 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil 1 tablespoon red wine vinegar 1 tablespoon lime juice 1 English cucumber, peeled and chopped 2-3 tablespoons red onion, minced 1 tablespoon each fresh mint and basil (optional)

Directions:

Puree one cup of watermelon, tomato, and serrano or jalapeño pepper. Add salt and pepper to taste. Add vinegar, lime, and olive oil to the mixture and pulse. Transfer to a large bowl and mix in cucumber, red onion, mint, and basil. Chill for several hours. Garnish with feta cheese. Serves four.

While seasoning meat is a common practice, rubs and sauces come with varying textures and flavors. Rubs, for example, should be applied before grilling to meat that will cook slowly, whereas a wet sauce can be applied later and pairs well with food that is going to be on the grill for a long while. We recommend these seasoned veterans with Evansville roots.

Becky Sue’s BBQ Rub

Multi-packs starting at $32 available at bbqbyjimjohnson.com Developed by competition barbecuers Becky and Jim Johnson, this dry rub was voted “Best Rub” in 2021 by readers of Barbecue News magazine. The mix of black pepper, cayenne pepper, garlic powder, onion powder, and chili powder favors salt for curing and brining, paprika for the resulting mahogany color, and “a few secret spices to give it its award-winning flavor,” Becky says.

Steak Dance Seasoning

Individual shakers starting at $6.59 at steakdance.com/steak-dance In Kim Grauer’s wide collection of seasonings, the original Steak Dance holds its own and comes in a swath of flavors. Try the honey pecan for a touch of sweetness, Himalayan Ice for a dash of spice, or Hickory Smoked for a classic finish. As always, coffee remains the seasoning line’s common ground. (Get it?)

Big “B” Barb-B-Q Sauce

Bottles starting at $3.99 at bigbbarbecue.com Born in a Chandler, Indiana, restaurant, Big “B” took a tomato-based family recipe from the 1930s and created a line of award-winning sauces. Ribs are complemented with the hickory notes infused in the Smokey sauce, while the Sweet Barbecue Bones blends pineapple and orange juices to sweeten the traditional taste. JULY/AUGUST 2022 EVANSVILLE LIVING

Harmonie State Park

The Glossary of Grilling To grill, or not to grill? When it comes to cooking with fire, there are a multitude of terms that often overlap. Grilling Cooking food uncovered, on a rack, and directly over a heat source, usually a charcoal fire. Barbecuing Cooking tougher cuts of meat with low, slow heat, often covered.

Grill Out and About So, you’re ready to test your skills as a full-fledged grill master, but you don’t have a grill of your own. These public grilling spots will ensure you don’t miss out on summer fun. Just be sure to grill safely (have water handy to douse flames) and responsibly (pick up your litter). Burdette Park 5301 Nurrenbern Road, 812-435-5602 Reservation required Burdette boasts year-round indoor day shelters with charcoal grills. Available from 10 a.m. to midnight, they can accommodate 25 to 250 people and range from $90 to $530. Friedman Park 2700 Park Blvd., Newburgh, IN, 812-490-4386 Walk-ups & Reservations Friedman Park has two pavilions with wood-burning fire pits available to rent (bring your own wood). The six charcoal grills strategically placed by picnic tables throughout the park are free of charge and are first-come, first-served. Lou Dennis Community Park 420 Park Drive, Newburgh, IN, 812-853-1720 Reservations required For $50 per day (plus a seven percent sales tax), the Fortress Shelter House offers a covered patio with tables, a ping pong table, and a charcoal grill. Harmonie State Park 13451 Harmonie State Park Road, New Harmony, IN, 812-682-4821 No reservations required Choose from five covered shelters with charcoal grills and tables. Walk-up use is free except for the park’s gate fee ($7 for in-state residents and $9 if you live out of state), and reservations are $40. John James Audubon State Park 3100 US Highway 41, Henderson, KY, 270-826-2247 Reservation recommended Four picnic shelters (one with a restroom) offer tables, a charcoal grill, and a nearby playground. Rates vary per season from $100-120; shelters can be reserved up to a year in advance.

Smoking Slowly increasing air temperatures in an enclosed grill (or smoker) to cook meat at a gradual pace. Convection Transfer for heat via gases or fluids. Performed at higher temperatures to increase cooking time. Helps regulate temperature. Indirect Grilling Food is placed to the side of or above a heat source instead of directly over the flame for a slow and low cook. Often used for smoking. Brining Treating food with brine or coarse salt, usually when smoking, to preserve moisture and seasoning. Planking Indirectly cooking food — popularly salmon — on an untreated wood plank that was soaked in water. Combines steaming, smoking, and roasting. JULY/AUGUST 2022 EVANSVILLE LIVING

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A SLICE OF PARADISE Newburgh home enjoys sweeping river view BY DALLAS CARTER

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vansville natives Karen and Tim Walthall needed a home that, much like their 52year marriage, would stand the test of time, and in 1993 they found it. The couple, who first met at the Vanderburgh 4-H Center’s cow barn in eighth grade and married on Valentine’s Day 1970, quickly began making the Craftsman-style home on State Highway 662 their own. Built in the 1930s, the original facade was a plain white frame. In 2008, the Walthalls transformed it with a covered porch and stonework by John Elpers Homes and Interstate Stone Supply. “We spend probably every night on our

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front porch,” Karen says. “A lot of people walking by wave at us; we have no idea who they are, but we wave back. We’re very proud of our porch.” The home is elevated by a steep hill, part of the Walthalls’ three and a half acres. While the lot was originally one acre, the couple bought the land to the west in 2016. The picturesque landscape, where their daughter was married in 2018, was updated with a fresh design and installation of laurel, soft touch holly, azaleas, drift roses, and ferns by Colonial Classics in April. Newburgh, Indiana-based Lawn Masters maintains the grass, and Francco Dorazi

SIT BACK AND RELAX Custom landscaping and stonework dress up Karen and Tim Walthall’s home along State Highway 662 in Newburgh, Indiana. The Walthalls enjoy a stunning view of the Ohio River from their comfortable front porch.

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Rockport, Indiana, couple transform 35-foot bus into stunning tiny home BY RILEY GUERZINI • PHOTOS BY ZACH STRAW

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get to live comfortably in a house environment, but still get to go wherever you want.” ditching traditional homes in favor of tiny, mobile living spaces that “Skoolies” are retired school buses converted into an RV-style fit their nomadic, minimalist, and spontaneous natures. camper. The Shourdses originally considMolly and Shon Shourds have jumped ered renovating an RV or shuttle van but on that bus — literally. They are selling realized the cluttered layout didn’t meet their Rockport, Indiana, home to travel “WE LOVE TO GO PLACES AND SEE their space or design needs. A traditional the country, living place-to-place in their NEW THINGS. (SHON) CAME ACROSS tiny home, which usually sits atop a trailcompletely refurbished 2003 International er, would be difficult to transport to the Bluebird school bus, which they’ve affecTHE SKOOLIE, AND IT’S THE PERFECT national parks they plan to visit. tionately named Beatrice the Bus. “Those tiny homes are also taller than FORMULA FOR US.” — MOLLY SHOURDS Downsizing to a little more than 200 this, so you have to think about clearsquare feet, Molly quit her job as a depances,” Shon says. “Your typical clearance is like 13 feet, and this uty auditor for the Spencer County Auditor’s Office and Shon is is just under 11 feet. I built it knowing that you can go under any quitting his job at Commonwealth Rolled Products in Lewisport, street-legal underpass.” Kentucky, and hitting the road with their dogs Tucker and Henry The couple purchased their Skoolie in 2019 through Facebook and cat Lilly for an adventure they’ve long wanted to embark on. Marketplace and began work on their new home a year later. They “We love to go places and see new things,” Molly says. “(Shon) gutted the interior wall to ceiling, opening up 35 feet of length and came across the Skoolie, and it’s the perfect formula for us. You

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HOME ON THE ROAD Shon and Molly Shourds are taking to the open road in their converted 2003 International Bluebird school bus. Apart from the kitchen cabinets, the Shourdses entirely built and renovated their “Skoolie” home, affectionately named Beatrice.

7.5 feet of width for their new living space. The Shourdses removed the stop arm and warning lights and repainted the bright yellow exterior in a fresh mint green. They did the grunt work of removing 3,000 rivets by hand using only a hammer and chisel. Apart from the kitchen cabinets, the Shourdses built and renovated Beatrice entirely themselves: the wood front door with windshield glass, walls for the closets, bathroom, and bedroom, and a rooftop deck. Shon even sewed the curtains that provide shade from 11 windows. Four solar panels — generating up to 800 watts of energy

LEADING LEGACY

— power the bus along with a bank of six 100-amp hour batteries. With a 100-gallon freshwater tank, two 40-gallon grey water tanks, propane stove and on-demand water heater, pioneer mini split air conditioner, full-size electric refrigerator, composting toilet, and diesel-power heater, Beatrice can go off-grid for up to two weeks. Beatrice’s renovations have cost the Shourdses about

$40,000. They set off on their new life in mid-July, first to explore New England during the fall before heading out West for next spring and summer. “We’ve talked about when we settle down somewhere, buying land and living in this and either building a new tiny home or flipping this and doing a cabin or something, but we want to get long-term use out of this,” Molly says. “It’s going to be our home.”

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WHAT’S IN STORE

‘NEXUS OF TRANQUILITY’ The Bead Angel is a one-stop shop for all things spiritual

estled into The Crossing shopping complex at 701 N. Weinbach Ave., Ste. 540, The Bead Angel is a self-proclaimed repository of respite for owners Cynthia Wayland and Gregory Myers and their loyal customer base. The metaphysical supply store opened on the West Side in 2003, several years before the couple even met. In 1996, Myers retired after 20 years in corporate sales and began attending craft shows and flea markets with his late wife Susan, a longtime cancer survivor who was in recurrence. Susan painted almost 130 colorful, fairytale-like pictures of angels and doves (which are available for purchase at the shop) before she passed in early 2001. Later that year, Myers met Wayland on a blind date; the two married in 2004. “Cynthia started almost immediately doing shows with me,” Myers says. “But the idea of doing shows on a weekly basis for three or four days in a row became untenable for us, so doing a store seemed to become the idea.”

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A retired teacher of 21 years, Wayland says customers inspired the store’s expansion from beads and jewelry into tarot cards, crystals, stones, statues, and singing bowls. “I think of the store as a place that honors all spiritual traditions,” she says. “Our main focus is to help people find what they need to get that for themselves. You have to be able to take the peace home and recreate it for yourself.” The store moved from the West Side to its current location in 2014 and continues to adapt to customer needs with books, local art, incense, sage, music, and an open workspace for people to conduct research, test demo card decks, and search through stone bins. “We’re not here to milk (customers),” Wayland says. “We’re here to help them find what they need and to think about what they need.” PEACE OF MIND thebeadangel.com

SUPER STONE Cynthia Wayland and Gregory Myers’ North Weinbach Avenue store, The Bead Angel, is full of spiritual items, from jewelry to books and decor, that they hope will let customers create their own oasis at home. Of customers’ particular interest are energy-channeling stones, crystals, and singing bowls.

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THEN AND NOW

New and Improved Real estate team overhauls quaint East Side property BY RILEY GUERZINI

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University of Evansville campus — appropriately known as the University South neighborhood —is a revamped retreat on a corner lot on Bayard Park Drive. The extensively updated home from Sarata 1 LLC — owned by F.C. Tucker Emge Realtors Chris Schafer and Mike Reeder — shows little sign of the small interior rooms that were standard when it was built in 1927. An entirely open concept layout is complemented by a renovated kitchen, freshly painted walls, updated lighting, remodeled bathrooms, and new roof and HVAC system. “Everything in it is brand new,” says Jacqueline Acker, a social media and marketing coordinator with the Mike Reeder Team. “I don’t think we really kept much of anything.”

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The master bedroom is now in what was the dining room, and an adjacent master bathroom with twin vanities was added in the former kitchen. A large family room in the partially finished basement provides abundant space for recreation and entertainment. Luxury vinyl flooring and ceramic tile back splashes were installed, while the upstairs bathroom retains original tile. Landscaping was trimmed to make the front exterior more visible, and the red brick was painted a light tan. The resulting modern look is balanced by the original decorative brick trim around the windows and bay windows with built-in interior seating. “I love that everything is new in it, but when you look at it and when you walk inside, you can still feel that old feeling,” says Acker. “You can tell that the house has a history.” P H OTO S P R OV I D E D BY C H R I S S C H A F E R

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WIDE-VIEW VENUE Terry and Lynne Lewis, owners of The Rug Merchant on Lincoln Avenue, admire the view of their front yard — alongside their cat Tinkerbell — from the full-gable window in the loft of their 1978 lodge-style home on Mount Pleasant Road.

RUSTIC RETREAT Terry and Lynne Lewis’ North Side sanctuary is a timeless album of their lives By Riley Guerzini Photography by Zach Straw and Jordan Auker

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Terry and Lynne purchased the 3,600-square-foot home in 1998 from original owners Jan and Linda Lockyear. Attracted by the rustic architecture, large, open rooms, and shaded corner lot on West Mount Pleasant Road, they moved in just four months after getting married. The Lewises, who met at a Petroleum Club breakfast in the 1990s, settled into their growing area of Evansville. “When we moved here, nothing was here. Deerfield Estates wasn’t here. Clear Creek wasn’t here. It was us, and then it

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was the highway,” Lynne says. “There were a couple of the old houses on the corner of Old State and Mount Pleasant, but there were none of those subdivisions. I used to run to Oak Meadow (Country Club). I would never run on this street anymore. This is crazy busy now, this whole area.” Shying away from muted decor, almost every furnishing has a story, largely from the Lewises’ global travels as they purchased inventory for The Rug Merchant, their longtime East Side shop opened in 1980. Inside, their home is filled with family

“This is Terry to a tee. It’s just a kind of rustic-looking home and over the years, I’ve been able to put some feminine influence toward it.” — Lynne Lewis

ECLECTIC INTERIOR Embellished with rugs, decorative keepsakes, and figurines from the couple’s world travels, nearly every piece in the Lewises’ home tells a story. These items contribute to the couple’s eclectic nature, such as a John Hamby painting hanging above the bar in the great room that was inspired by a photo in the 100th issue of Evansville Living featuring Terry, Lynne, and their two cats, Tater Tot and Tinkerbell.

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paintings, woodworking, keepsakes, and, of course, rugs. “This house has got some interesting features and some great bones to it that we’ve been able to change around,” Lynne says. “This is Terry to a tee. It’s just a kind of rustic-looking home and over the years, I’ve been able to put some feminine influence toward it.” Some of their mementos are gifts, such as a South African Zulu spear hanging on the mantel above the 10-ton stone fireplace, given to them by Terry’s brother Kenny Lewis, who was in the U.S. Coast Guard at the time. Terry carved a wooden door into a curvy sculpture, now the base of a lamp that sits behind the bar in the living room. A carved wooden harmony goddess statue is displayed prominently in the living room opposite the fireplace and was purchased from a trip to St. Helena, California. Terry says it’s his favorite piece in their home. Others are passed down from family, such as the piano from Lynne’s grandparents, or an 1870s side table made by Lynne’s stepdad’s grandfather. “We didn’t just go buy everything. It all has a story or a reason. You don’t want to buy things that look like you went to ‘Rooms To-Go,’” Lynne says. “You want to collect things and add to them and find a favorite piece.” “There are some people that when they get new things, they get rid of something else,” she adds. “That doesn’t happen with us.” As expected, the Lewises have their own collection of rugs — 13 throughout the home, to be exact, including two 130-year-old antique rugs in the living room. “You never would’ve known. It’s a beautiful, well-made rug,” Terry says. “It’s got patches in it, but with older rugs, you have to kind of be okay with asymmetry. That’s what makes them interesting.” Among the renovations completed since the Lewises moved in, the most extensive work has been done in the kitchen, remodeled in 2021. The Lewises extended the interior wall two feet to widen walking space, which they say completely changes the look and feel of the kitchen. New wall cabinets also were installed, matching the original base cabinets from when the kitchen was first remodeled in 2006. Around the corner from the kitchen is a multipurpose room that the family uses mostly as a playroom for the couple’s eight grandkids.

“There are some people that when they get new things, they get rid of something else. That doesn’t happen with us.” — Lynne Lewis

WHAT’S OLD IS NEW AGAIN The Lewises renovated their kitchen in 2021, widening the space by two feet and installing new wall cabinets, built to match the original base cabinets.

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“We’ve had people walking by tell us it’s just like a little secret garden. This yard has made some huge transformations over time.”— Lynne Lewis

BACKYARD BLISS The brick and cedar exterior contributes to an earthen color scheme that is rustic and harmonious. The backyard is emblematic of the Lewises’ connection to nature, with linden and ash trees; railroad ties forming a retaining wall; and a sign made from rebar that references the year they moved into their home.

“When we did the kitchen, we were going to open it all up,” Lynne says. “But since our rooms are so big, this is the only place we had to have the grandkids go when they come here, so they’re not underneath our feet all the time.” Showing off her own handiwork, Lynne built the back bookcase with her sister Kathy Stover in a single weekend, measuring and cutting the wood and using the old wall kitchen cabinets for the bottom. Upstairs, the loft provides an open view of the front yard greenery and occasional wildlife from a full-gable window. The room is the preferred napping spot for the couple’s beloved cats, Tater Tot and Tinkerbell, and also is a favorite of pesky woodpeckers who sometimes just can’t stay away from hammering the cedar exterior. “When you’re up here and looking out in the winter when it’s snowy, it’s just beautiful,” Lynne says. The backyard, which the Lewises call their “harmony,” is lush with linden and ash trees for added shade. Railroad ties used as a retaining wall in the back of the yard contribute to the rustic vibe, and a green and beige shed match the exterior colors of the house. Lynne says it’s a beautiful and peaceful place for them to connect with nature and relax. “We’ve had people walking by tell us it’s just like a little secret garden,” Lynne says. “This yard has made some huge transformations over time.” As for their vast collection, the Lewises hope to pass on their belongings and home to their five children and eight grandchildren, admitting it’s the best way of lightening their load. “Everybody feels like this is home to them,” Lynne says. “My kids tell us, ‘Don’t ever sell this house.’”

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Tools 4 Teaching is a toy store to experience! Whether you are a parent or grandparent, finding the perfect gift for any celebration is easy between the games, puzzles, crafts, LEGO, and thousands of other toys. Encourage the little one in your life to come in and create a birthday basket: Kids select toys around the store to fill their basket, family members shop out of the basket, and the resulting gift is wrapped for free!

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ROOM WITH A VIEW Built in 1955 for Iley and Elizabeth Browning, the home was modern from the start largely due to Elizabeth’s progressive influence. She authored “With Love and Elbow Grease” while living at 440 Scenic Drive. Former owner and remodeler Dave Hendrickson wanted to preserve her mid-century vision with authentic furnishings, but also added new features like the floating staircase.

cenic Drive’s name isn’t just for its elevated views of the East Side. The homes on this secluded street off the crest of the Lincoln Avenue hill also sight themselves. A the are quite standout among the custom builds is 440 Scenic Drive. Designed by local architect Ralph Robert Knapp in 1955, the home is one of the most authentic examples of mid-century modern architecture in the area. Mid-century modern design is defined by its clean lines, minimalist aesthetic, angular structures, and a flowing connection mid-centubetween the indoors and outdoors. A Hendrickson was imry decor and furniture collector, Dan for Iley B. Browning Jr. mediately drawn to the home built Hendrickson even and his wife Elizabeth Lowry Browning. of Historic Sites and added the house to the Indiana Register 2018. Structures in the Brownings’ name in the better examples “I definitely thought it was one of ” he says. “Elizabeth is of this type of architecture in the city, a writer and very was She design. the for largely responsible especially, she was eating progressive for her time. In the ‘50s, book called ‘With Love organic and doing yoga. She wrote a ” and Elbow Grease’ about fixing up furniture. 1974 and reside there A second owner would buy the home in — an EvansHendrickson by until 2017, when it was purchased Peoples Bank — for himville native and chief banking officer at of Growing Through self and his partner Grace Stevens, owner structure’s waltwo-level The services. Grace psychotherapeutic by vintage furniture nut interior and cork floors were enhanced shelving intricate and and decor such as a geometric block clock the impression of being unit original to the home that gave it frozen in time. LIVING 73 MARCH/APRIL 2022 EVANSVILLE

SHOW OFF YOUR HOME! Do you own a home or know of a house that would look great in the pages of Evansville Living magazine? Each issue, we feature a unique house in the Tri-State that is distinguished by its impressive architecture, attractive location, stunning interior, and the remarkable people who live there. Contact us by calling 812-426-2115 or emailing webmaster@ evansvilleliving.com for a chance to have your home featured in an upcoming issue of Evansville Living!

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MEANINGFUL MEMORY CARE First opened in 1962, the independent living community at Good Samaritan Home has added three units devoted to residents with different levels of memory care needs and has quickly become a leading care center for Tri-State residents in their later years. “We have residents who have memory care issues who move around freely — they need very minimal assistance — up to memory care residents who need hospice care,” says Laura Tate, Good Samaritan Home’s director of admissions. “Just because you have memory care issues or a diagnosis doesn’t mean you have to go to a memory care unit, but you should consider it if you or a loved one are wandering or sundowning a lot, sleeping all day, up all night, needing more supervision, or not tolerating a lot of activity.”

Memory care residents live in units that are quieter and smaller, with fewer residents. The staff-to-patient ratio is higher, with employees being specifically trained to deal with memory care residents and working with residents’ doctors and therapists to create individualized care plans. Good Samaritan Home employees and administrators ensure residents have plenty of activities and opportunities to socialize, whether attending church services, making crafts, playing bingo, or boarding a bus to see sights around the area. A women’s unit CNA sets up a makeshift beauty parlor for residents to get their hair and makeup done in the mornings. JULY/AUGUST 2022 EVANSVILLE LIVING

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Five levels of assisted living are available. An assessment determines the level of care an individual needs, including bathing and dressing assistance, medication administration, wellness checks, toileting and grooming assistance, status checks, and catheter care. The Village’s wellness director, who also is a registered nurse, oversees all services. Each apartment also has emergency pull cords if a resident needs assistance. “The beauty of being here at the Village is an individual may come into independent living,

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ALL UNDER ONE ROOF Open since 1985, The Village at Holiday Healthcare, 1200 W. Buena Vista Road, seeks to transcend each phase of its residents’ retirement. The Village’s 102 pet-friendly studio, one-bedroom, and two-bedroom apartments offer independent or assisted living under one roof. The gated community offers a full-service beauty shop, library, exercise room, dining room overlooking a lagoon, garden room with skylights, and a garden that residents can pick vegetables from. Through its sister company Horizons Homecare, the Village offers wellness services to residents.

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but six months down the road, they need help. Here, they don’t have to leave,” says Claire Gretencord, who oversees admissions and resident relations at The Village at Holiday. “We provide a sense of security and safety.” The Village’s Activities Plus Program was launched in April 2022 and is specialized for residents starting to have cognitive decline, or who have a diagnosis of early-onset Alzheimer’s. “Through the Activities Plus program, they are able to stimulate their brain so they are using it every day. It helps slow progression of the disease,” Gretencord says. “It’s rewarding to see them become more confident in their decisions. That’s satisfying because our main goal is to help them.” The Village at Holiday is a family owned and operated company, and Gretencord herself is part of that legacy. Her grandfather Larry Dunigan started Holiday

THRICE AS NICE: TRIO OF CAMPUSES OFFERS VARIETY OF LIVING ARRANGEMENTS When reaching retirement age, many people consider downsizing their dwelling while increasing amenities and ease of living, but everyone has different needs. Enter the StoneCreek Communities-owned trio of campuses. “We designed this entire community to enable residents to age gracefully,” says Sabrina Modesitt, director of operations for St. Louis, Missouri-based StoneCreek Communities. “We offer as little or as much help as anyone needs, so this can be a place residents can continue to age, while having services in-house and everything at their fingertips.” The benefits of residing in a Leisure Living community, Modesitt says, extends to the residents’ loved ones and caregivers.

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LION: THE RISE AND FALL OF THE MARSH PRIDE

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For 30 years, camera operators in Kenya have followed one incredible pride of lions, broadcasting their fates and fortunes to millions of people worldwide. Now, for the first time, the story of the lioness at the heart of this dynasty is being told. This groundbreaking film introduces a new form of natural history storytelling. Her life will be told by those who filmed her, those who protected her, and those who wanted her dead.

THE U.S. AND THE HOLOCAUST

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This three-part series tells the story of how Americans grappled with one of the greatest humanitarian crises of the 20th century, and how this struggle tested the ideals of our democracy. The truth is much more nuanced and complicated, and the challenges that the American people confronted raise questions that remain essential to our society today: What is America’s role as a land of immigrants? What are the responsibilities of a nation to intervene in humanitarian crises? What should our leaders and the press do to shape public opinion? What can individuals do when governments fail to act?

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Based on the crime-novel series by author Caroline Graham, “Midsomer Murders” follows the efforts of Detective Chief Inspector John Barnaby as he solves crimes occurring in the wealthy, isolated English county of Midsomer, a picturesque and peaceful place on the outside but one filled with amoral and snobbish eccentrics with all kinds of vices. Barnaby is the younger cousin of DCI Tom Barnaby, who retired in 2011. His right-hand man, Detective Sergeant Jamie Winter, is young, keen, and smart as a whip. “Midsomer Murders” is the UK’s longest-running contemporary detective drama, having aired on ITV since 1997.

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Airs Wednesdays at 7 p.m. starting Sept. 28 “Rivers of Life” returns with four new hours, exploring waterways, from source to sea. Breathtaking shots of animals and landscapes, as well as the latest camera technology, make life and nature alongside the great rivers around the globe come alive to the audience at home.

The ultimate variety show with music, larger-than-life guest stars and, of course, timeless comedy is airing again on WNIN. “The Carol Burnett Show: Carol’s Favorites” consists of 15 episodes, personally chosen by the iconic comedienne herself, as they originally appeared on television during the show’s 11-year run. Starring Carol Burnett, Harvey Korman, Tim Conway, Vicki Lawrence, and Lyle Waggoner, the main cast is complemented by a legendary cast of guest star celebrities and musicians including Don Rickles, Ethel

Merman, Bing Crosby, Dame Maggie Smith, The Pointer Sisters, Steve Martin, and Betty White. One of the most influential television shows ever, “The Carol Burnett Show” won 25 Primetime Emmy Awards during its original run and has appeared on numerous lists for greatest TV shows of all time, including TV Guide’s and Time’s lists.

MAKING BLACK AMERICA: THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE This four-part series will chronicle the vast social networks and organizations created by and for Black people beyond the reach of the “white gaze.” The series recounts the trajectory from Prince Hall Masons in 1775 to the formation of all-Black towns and business districts, Historically Black Colleges and Universities, destinations for leisure, and the social media phenomenon of Black Twitter.

THE STORY OF HIP-HOP WITH CHUCK D

Developed by rapper Chuck D and manager Lorrie Boula, this four-hour series rewinds to the birth of hiphop and traces its role in the story of America from the past 40 years to the present day. Featuring firsthand accounts from some of rap’s most integral players, the series will deconstruct the origins of this bold and revolutionary art form through the voices of those who were there at the start, creating an anthology of how it became a cultural phenomenon against the backdrop of American history. JULY/AUGUST 2022 EVANSVILLE LIVING

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Owensville baker finds sweet success with decorative sugar cookies BY RILEY GUERZINI

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ou eat with your eyes.” The common adage is key to culinary artists, and in Sheridan Stokes’ Owensville, Indiana, kitchen, it defines the creativity she evokes in each of her eye-catching cookies. A self-taught baker, Stokes had been selling cakes and cupcakes since 2015 to family and friends. But it wasn’t until her sister Alyssa asked her to make decorative sugar cookies for bridesmaid’s proposals in September 2020 that Stokes’ pastry talents began to manifest. A month later, she launched The Whimsy Whisk. “I thought there was no way it was going to turn out well, but it did,” she says. “And then I thought ‘Well, it’s time to put myself out there.’” A passion for baking and a creative mindset allow Stokes to transform ordinary sugar cookies into intricate, themed works of art. She researched social media for how to construct the delicately designed pastries, learning tips from YouTube videos and Instagram reels and adding her own touch to confections. She works evenings and on weekends outside her full-time job in hedge fund administration services to fulfill orders. Each cookie is individually heat sealed in a clear cellophane bag to maintain freshness up to two weeks. Stokes enjoys letting her artistry roam free. Her favorite part, she says, is the

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PIPED TO PERFECTION Owensville, Indiana, home baker Sheridan Stokes says it’s her aesthetic penmanship that brings her cookies to life. “There are just so many designs that I use the calligraphy with,” she says. “I practice just on paper, too, but I would say that’s my strong suit.”

meticulously hand-piped calligraphy. “It gives me the creative outlet I was looking for,” she says. “I love being able to see their face too, when they see them and it’s 10 times what they imagined.” But don’t let these extravagant cookies fool you; they taste delicious, too.

“My main goal is to debunk the notion that pretty cookies don’t taste good,” Stokes says. “Of course they can, and they should.” WHISK AWAY Facebook.com/thewhimsywhiskbysheridan

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SATISFACTION ON A STICK Lollys Pops deliver sweet relief from the heat STORY AND PHOTOS BY RILEY GUERZINI POPSICLE PARADISE Lollys Pops have been cooling down Evansville-area residents since 2017 with owner Todd Megar’s artisan, all-natural popsicles.

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hen the weather heats up, Evansvillians cool down with Lollys Pop Bar’s artisan popsicles. Now in its fifth season roaming the Tri-State in a colorful teal truck, Lollys’ handmade frozen confections have all-natural ingredients and assorted flavors, including avocado lime, dragonfruit, pineapple passionfruit, and banana pudding ice cream. The ice cream flavors are

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made with one of five bases: buttermilk, sour cream, heavy cream, cream cheese, and custard. “I’ll get bored and just make up some flavors, and sometimes they sell out really fast,” owner Todd Megar says. Megar, who moved to Evansville from Texas in 2009, takes inspiration from his southern roots, even importing all the equipment used to make the frozen treats from Brazil, where paletas — natural ingredient

popsicles — are common. The pops are frozen at about -10 degrees in stainless steel molds. Megar says he keeps the pops flavorful by not adding water. All of Lollys’ popsicles, including the specialty pops, are $4. “We keep it simple,” he says. “It’s become kind of iconic. We have like a cult following now.” Lollys Pop Bar is open for scheduled catering events April through November, though you can find it at pop-up events around town or at Farm 57 on Wednesday evenings and the Franklin Street Bazaar on Saturday mornings. The artisan ice pops also are available at Tri-State retail locations including Honey Moon Coffee Co., Henderson Juice Co., Thrive Dance Company, and Black Lodge Coffee Roasters in New Harmony, Indiana.

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Indianapolis brewery partners with state fair for caramel corn beer BY RILEY GUERZINI IT’S ALL ABOUT the popcorn when it comes

to Indiana. From Orville Redenbacher to Pop Weaver, the state is home to popcorn pioneers and continues to be a giant in the industry. In fact, Indiana is the nation’s second-largest producer of popcorn, behind only Nebraska. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Hoosier State produces nearly 25 percent of all popcorn in the country.

This year, one Indiana brewery is celebrating the time-honored Hoosier snack with a new specialty ale. Indianapolis-based Sun King Brewery has partnered with the Indiana State Fair for the event’s official 2022 beer, a one-of-a-kind caramel corn ale. Infused in each batch are 100 pounds of caramel popcorn from Just Pop In, an Indianapolis gourmet popcorn shop. Those craving a sip of Sun King’s buttery caramel corn beer can find it at this year’s state fair July 29-Aug. 21 at the Indiana State Fairgrounds and Event Center. A limited amount also will be available on draft at the brewery’s tap room locations and at Just Pop In.

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food trucks and community events the Downtown brewery is known for. The Barrel House at 1700 Morgan Center Drive (formerly ShowMe’s and before that, Mattingly’s 23) is now open and offers bourbon, steaks, flatbread, and more.

NOW OPEN Honey Moon Coffee Co. has opened its third location at 20 W. Water St. in NIBBLES Newburgh, Indiana. The coffee shop in The former Boston’s location on the Lloyd the former Ben and Penny’s ice cream Expressway in Warrick County has been serves Cincinnati, Ohio-based Graeter’s purchased by Deaconess Health System. Ice Cream, also available at the Burkhardt Hometown Roots in Henderson, location at 1211 Tutor Lane. Samuel’s Kentucky, is now offering is now open Downtown at 113 a Southern-style brunch S.E. Fourth St. The upscale casual from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on restaurant in the former location Sundays. Bubble Tea Talk of Eclipse Bistro, Tapas, and in Owensboro, Kentucky, is More, has a menu of sandwiches, opening a shop this summer specialty entrees, and appetizers at 619 N. Burkhardt Road, by head chef Andy Wood that Ste. G, for bubble tea and will rotate seasonally. Elbie’s Ice boba. KC’s Marina Pointe Cream opened at 70 E. Front ELBIE’S IC and Nightclub’s Tiki Time has St., Elberfeld, Indiana, on May E CREAM become The Barge at Marina 8. The stand sells creative spins Pointe. Tiki Time has relocated on the icy treat, such as ice cream nachos to Main Street Downtown as Tiki on Main, and unicorn sundaes. Myriad Brewing replacing the Backstage Bar and Grill. The Company opened its new taproom at 8245 new brand will also debut a revamped kitchen, High Pointe Drive, Newburgh, Indiana, on larger bar, and seafood menu. The Rooster’s May 20. The location features an extensive Den Comfort Food Restaurant is hiring and outdoor space and will host the same A L L P H OTO S P R OV I D E D

slated to open in the former Burger King building at 3988 Haley Drive in Newburgh. Nel’s Pizza will open in the Hoosier Burger Co. building on South Green River Road later this summer, sharing the space with the fast-casual restaurant. Acropolis Catering & Food Truck is operating out of a new event space, Venue 812. Opened on June 8, the North Boeke Road facility is a banquet hall, meeting space, and celebration location for local events. Prime Time Pub and Grill Newburgh in Newburgh, Indiana, has announced a second restaurant will open later this year in the former Roca Bar North on Highway 41. DEARLY DEPARTED After going up for sale in January 2022, Read St. BBQ officially closed on June 11. The former barbecue joint, open since November 2018, consolidated in October 2021 into the newly rebranded Walton’s Smokehouse and Southern Kitchen. The Milk Barn Café purchased Read St. BBQ’s building and opened it July 4 as the first storefront for its famous firecakes. JULY/AUGUST 2022 EVANSVILLE LIVING

Food & Drink

IN THE KITCHEN

GARDEN GRUB

Savor summer with two SWIMGA recipes BY DALLAS CARTER

GOOD EATS

Market Mania These seasonal farm markets offer fresh food all summer long BY BAILEY BRUSH

armers market season is in full swing, and what better way to utilize your freshly bought produce than by trying your hand at a new recipe? Published in 2019, the Southwestern Indiana Master Gardener Association’s Cookbook, “Harvest: 30 Years of Growing and Cooking,” is a treasure trove of tips and these two standout summer recipes. S W E E T DI L LY TOM ATO B OW T I E

Salad Ingredients 1 box bow tie pasta, cooked, drained, and cooled 3 medium red tomatoes, diced 1/2 red onion, diced 1 medium cucumber, diced 1/2 jar of pimentos Dressing Ingredients 2 tablespoons of fresh dill weed 1/4 cup olive oil 1/4 cup vinegar 1/4 cup sugar 1/4 cup water Salt and pepper, to taste Mix dressing ingredients thoroughly and set aside. Place cooled pasta in a separate large bowl and combine with the rest of the ingredients. Then, pour the dressing throughout and stir to coat evenly. Chill the entire dish a few hours. Stir again and garnish as desired before serving. C U C UM B E R S A L A D

Ingredients 2 large cucumbers, peeled and sliced 1 small onion, sliced 1 cup white vinegar 2/3 cup sugar 1 cup water Soak cucumber slices in an ice saltwater bath for one hour, drain, then arrange in a bowl with sliced onions. In a separate bowl, stir the vinegar, water, and sugar until sugar dissolves. Pour the mixture over cucumbers, add fresh ground pepper, and stir. Chill for at least two hours and add other desired vegetables such as tomatoes for garnish if desired.

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Market on Main 601 Main St., Evansville 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Wednesday, June 1-Sept. 14 marketonmainevv.com/ Can’t-miss items: fudge, popcorn, and sweets Franklin Street Bazaar 1331 W. Franklin St., Evansville 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday, May 25-Aug. 31 fallinlovewithfranklin.org/franklin-st-bazaar Can’t-miss items: local honey and coffee Newburgh Farmers Market Old Lock & Dam Park, Newburgh, Indiana 8 a.m.-noon Saturday, June 4-Aug. 20 newburghfarmersmarket.org Can’t-miss items: fresh fruits and veggies Bud’s Farm Market 3501 S. Weinbach Ave., Evansville 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday-Saturday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday budsfarm.business.site Can’t-miss item: big, juicy tomatoes Variety Village 2 (Ronnie’s Fruit Stand) 600 E. Columbia St., Evansville 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-3:00 p.m. Sunday varietyvillage2.com Can’t-miss item: vegetable plants The Produce Patch Farm Market 8120 High Pointe Drive, Newburgh, Indiana, in the B-Fit by Bob’s Gym parking lot 9 a.m.-7 p.m. daily, June-August producepatchfarmmarket.com Can’t-miss item: cantaloupe Henderson Farmers Market 381 Sam Ball Way, Henderson, Kentucky 8 a.m.-1 p.m. Tuesday, Friday-Saturday, May-October Facebook.com/HendersonFarmersMarket Can’t-miss item: pork steaks Find a full list of year-round farm stands and markets at evansvilleliving.com P H OTO BY B A I L E Y B R U S H

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3rd Street Saloon

113

Azzip Pizza

117

DiLegge’s Banquet Room & Catering

Bally’s Evansville

Bar Louie

Schnitzelbank and Schnitzelbank Catering

128

Smitty’s Italian S teakhouse

118

Snaps

126

124

Thomason’s Barbecue

126

MoJo’s BoneYard Sports Bar & Grille

The Tin Fish

128

131

Turoni’s

127

130

Nisbet Inn

127

Twisted Tomato Pizza Co.

129

Gangnam Korean BBQ

106

Gerst Haus

118

North Main Annex Gourmet Catering & Deli 125

Walton’s Smokehouse and Southern Kitchen

116

The Granola Jar

122

Osaka Japanese Hibachi

120

Kite & Key Cafe and Coffee Shop

115

Drake’s

120

La Campirana

123

117

El Patron

119

Local Source

114

The Barrel House

122

The Log Inn

124

Biaggi’s

100

Entwined Wine & Dine

121

Los Alfaro’s

Big Top Drive In

130

Biscuit Belly

121

Fidel’s Bourbon and Cigar Bar

116

BRU Burger Bar

104

Friendship Diner

Bubba’s 33

119

Bud’s Rockin’ Country Bar and Grill

113

Outback Steakhouse

125 99

Winzerwald Winery

131

Yak & Yeti

129

The Yellow Tavern

111

Canton Inn

105

Chicken Salad Chick

130

Herradura Mexican Restaurant

109

Prime Time Pub & Grill 102, 103

Copper House

107

House of Como

123

Red Geranium Restaurant

108

Zesto Riverside

131

Cosmos Bistro

114

Inka’s Charcoal Grill & Bar

110

Riverwalk by Acropolis

131

Zuki

112

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THE MAC DADDY

PORK SLIDERS

BRUNCH SPECIALS

PRIME TIME PUB & GRILL NEWBURGH

PRIME TIME PUB & GRILL Prime Time Pub & Grill specializes in thick-cut meat sandwiches, creative half-pound burgers made with ground rib-eye, steaks, salads, awesome appetizer offerings, and, of course, prime rib. Our flavors are bold, our portions are a little larger, and all of the ingredients are high quality, and it shows in the flavors. We also offer a private event room, catering for big or small events, and a food truck.

8177 BELL OAKS DRIVE, NEWBURGH, IN • 812-490-0655 • PRIMETIMENEWBURGH.COM

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WHAT ARE SOME OF YOUR SPECIALTIES? Prime Sticks are the perfect way to start the meal. Made in house, we wedge mozzarella cheese, bread it in an herb panko, fry it, and serve it with sweet marinara. Our Cheesy Mac is ridiculous, super cheesy with smoked gouda, and pairs well with any dish. The Onion Soup, our take on the classic, also is a popular choice. The Prime Dip is shaved prime rib, sautéed in au jus, and topped with smoked gouda and onion straws. The Prime Sliders, good as a starter or your main meal, also are amazing. We start with our ground beef and rib-eye mixed patty and top it with onion straws and prime sauce.

WHAT ARE YOUR OUTDOOR DINING ACCOMMODATIONS? During the pandemic we decided we needed to expand our outdoor dining, so we added a deck. The new patio allows for a self-service bar area up top, dining below, and has fans, heaters, and TVs. The patio is creating a lot of buzz and people come by just to check it out.

PRIME DIP

WHY SHOULD SOMEONE TRY PRIME TIME? The atmosphere is terrific, the food is outstanding, and the service is amazing. You can get food and drinks anywhere, but our service model offers a much better experience. Veteran and locally owned and operated, Prime Time is a great reason to dine in Newburgh and enjoy our new covered patio, but we also offer catering and delivery. Catering can be delivered within 30 minutes, and our regular menu is available for delivery within 5 miles. You’re welcome, Evansville’s East Side.

DO YOU HAVE WEEKLY EVENTS OR SPECIALS? We have something on special almost every night of the week! Monday — $1.99 full size Cuervo margarita, $3 domestic bottles, and double points in our loyalty

OUTDOOR COVERED PATIO program; Tuesday — $2 domestic pints, 16-ounce cans in the bag, and Teacher Appreciation day with 10% off for teachers; Wednesday — $2 off Wines, Wells, and Wings and First Responders day with 10% off for first responders; Thursday — $4 for all craft pints. Join us for brunch on Sunday for $5.99 Bloody Mary’s and mimosas. Watch our website for the music schedule. Our lunch menu

LUNCH COMBO STARTING LESS THAN $10 is available Monday through Friday, and we can get you in and out in fewer than 30 minutes.

TELL US ABOUT YOUR NEW LOCATION! We are excited to announce our new Evansville location at 12301 US Highway 41 North. You can visit us online at PTNorth41@ outlook.com or check out our Facebook and Instagram pages at Prime Time North.

Prime Time Pub & Grill is a great reason to dine in Newburgh. We are veteran and locally owned and operated. The quality of our ingredients shows in the bold flavors of our menu, and our service model offers an experience like no other. Try our irresistible Pork Shanks or Blackened Sea Bass, and don’t forget the Chocolate Cake for dessert. Check our website for weekly dinner and drink specials.

NEW EVANSVILLE LOCATION OPENING SOON! • 12301 US HWY 41 N. JULY/AUGUST 2022 EVANSVILLE LIVING

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THE BEGINNING BURGER AND FRIES

MILKSHAKES

BURGERS, SALADS, MILKSHAKES

BRU BURGER BAR Proudly occupying the space of the former Greyhound Depot, BRU Burger Bar Evansville is the fifth BRU location for Cunningham Restaurant Group. Focusing on the American classic — the burger — the menu offers a wide array of burgers and sandwiches, fries, and shakes, along with salads and appetizers. In addition to an extensive menu, each location offers local beers and spirits along with well-known classics.

222 SYCAMORE ST. • 812-302-3005 • BRUBURGERBAR.COM 104

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CHOPPED SALAD

SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION

DINE

SWEET AND SOUR CHICKEN

GENERAL’S CHICKEN AND EGG DROP SOUP

PORK AND LO MEIN

BUFFET

CANTON INN RESTAURANT Family-owned and specializing in Cantonese and American food, Canton Inn offers an impressive and extensive menu Tuesday through Sunday, a lunch and dinner buffet Tuesday through Friday, and an all-day buffet Saturday and Sunday. Whether you’re in the mood for egg rolls and sweet and sour chicken or steakburgers and rib-eye steaks, there’s something for everyone at Canton Inn! Stop in to try new menu items: bourbon chicken, honey sesame chicken, and dumplings.

947 N. PARK DRIVE • 812-428-6611 • CANTONINNEVANSVILLE.COM JULY/AUGUST 2022 EVANSVILLE LIVING

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BEEF BIBIMBAP

SWEET POTATO NOODLES

PRIME GALBI

GANGNAM KOREAN BBQ Gangnam Korean BBQ brings fresh, authentic Korean wing dishes, barbecue, and sushi rolls to Downtown Evansville. Using recipes passed down for generations, we provide healthy lunch and dinner options and a fun atmosphere complete with K-POP music videos.

518 MAIN ST. • 812-550-1171 • GANGNAMJOE.COM 106

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BUBBA GUMP ROLL (DEEP FRIED)

SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION

DINE

GARDEN ROOM

CAESAR SALAD

SHRIMP AND GRITS

SALTED CARAMEL BROWN SUGAR CAKE

COPPER HOUSE Copper House provides an upscale-casual experience that fuses cuisine styles. House-made bacon and desserts merge with locally sourced meats and produce, and expertly crafted cocktails unite with global wines and rotating craft beer. Exciting weekday lunch and weekend brunch menus are offered until 3 p.m. Dine near the open kitchen surrounded by living plants in our Garden Room. Enjoy beautiful murals and craftsmanship by local artisans throughout the historic building. With three distinct event spaces holding 16 to 100 guests, Copper House is an excellent destination for hosting your next special dinner, private party, or corporate meeting.

1430 W FRANKLIN ST. • 812-909-8089 • THECOPPER.HOUSE JULY/AUGUST 2022 EVANSVILLE LIVING

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SURF AND TURF

WINGS AND SPINACH DIP COMBO

RED GERANIUM RESTAURANT

LEMON SEA BASS

RED GERANIUM RESTAURANT Established in 1964, the Red Geranium Restaurant is one of the region’s most charming and romantic restaurants. Serving breakfast, lunch, dinner, and weekend brunch, we offer seasonal American cuisine and Midwest favorites. Diners can enjoy three different dining rooms, a bar, and patio area. June through September our patio features local musicians. The patio jams are from 6 to 9 p.m. Friday and Saturday. The New Harmony Inn Conference Center will be serving a Grand Buffet on Thanksgiving, Easter, and Mother’s Day.

520 NORTH ST., NEW HARMONY, IN • 812-682-6171 • FACEBOOK.COM/REDGERANIUMRESTAURANT 108

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HERRADURA MEXICAN RESTAURANT BAR & GRILL FAVORITES

FISH TACOS

HERRADURA MEXICAN RESTAURANT BAR & GRILL

BLUE RASPBERRY MARGARITA

HERRADURA MEXICAN RESTAURANT BAR & GRILL Family owned and operated, Herradura Mexican Restaurant Bar & Grill has an expansive menu full of lunch and dinner options from sizzling fajitas to Mexican salads. Little ones will love our children’s menu. Add a dessert to finish your meal right. We have fish bowl margaritas (18 oz.) for $4.99 7-days a week.

4610 BELLEMEADE AVE. • 812-402-0355 • HERRADURAEVANSVILLE.COM JULY/AUGUST 2022 EVANSVILLE LIVING

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PERUVIAN LAMB STEW, GRILL FOR TWO, CEVICHE, FROZEN PASSION FRUIT, MACHU PICCHU, FROZEN PURPLE CORN JUICE

INKA’S CHARCOAL GRILL & BAR

CHARBROILED OYSTERS

MANGO PASSION FRUIT CHEESECAKE, MOUSSE DE LUCUMA, ALFAJORES

INKA’S CHARCOAL GRILL & BAR Inka’s Charcoal Grill & Bar is a premier and authentic Peruvian/American restaurant proudly serving the Evansville area and beyond since August 2021. Our mission is to provide high-quality food for all those who wish to combine a fun, enjoyable ambiance with skillful cooking into an extraordinary dining experience. Our menu features dishes assembled from the freshest ingredients and is sure to bring bold and inspiring flavor into your life.

8401 N. KENTUCKY AVE. STE. J • 812-810-0325 • INKAS-PERU.COM 110

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DINE

GRILLED SALMON WITH LONG-GRAIN WILD RICE

REUBEN

FRESH HOMEMADE PIZZA

THE YELLOW TAVERN

THE YELLOW TAVERN Indulge in an exquisitely compiled lunch menu, including a yummy variety of customizable sandwiches. Go with our grilled salmon with long-grain wild rice, load up a pizza with all of your favorite toppings, or enjoy our famous homemade bread pudding. The Yellow Tavern boasts a refreshingly quaint dining atmosphere, with friendly service.

521 CHURCH ST., NEW HARMONY, IN • 812-682-3303 JULY/AUGUST 2022 EVANSVILLE LIVING

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RAMEN & SUSHI BOX

POKE BOWL

ZUKI DOWNTOWN

FILET AND SEAFOOD COMBO SUSHI

ZUKI JAPANESE HIBACHI GRILL & SUSHI LOUNGE Zuki Japanese Hibachi Grill & Sushi Lounge has been in operation since January 2007. Over the years we've maintained our commitment to serving fresh, authentic dishes from sushi and lunch specials to the hibachi grill at our two Tri-State locations. Poke Bowl Bar is open now at Downtown location.

ZUKI DOWNTOWN - 222 MAIN ST. • FULL BAR • 812-423-9854 ZUKI EASTSIDE - 1448 N. GREEN RIVER ROAD • FULL BAR • 812-477-9854 • LOVEZUKI.COM 112

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DINE

PORTERHOUSE PORK CHOP

YELLOWFIN TUNA

MONTE CRISTO TWISTS

BUD’S ROCKIN’ COUNTRY BAR & GRILL Bud’s Bar and Grill is a country bar and restaurant that offers lunch and beer specials in a casual and entertaining environment. You’ll find all your favorite homemade southern comfort food on our menu, and our lunch and beer specials change daily. When you’re looking for a fun night out, we’ll see you at Bud’s! Live entertainment Thursday - Sunday!

2124 W. FRANKLIN ST. • 812-401-1730 • BUDSBARGRILL.COM

SURF AND TURF

A VARIETY OF 3RD STREET FAVORITES

“MOTHER MARY” BLOODY MARY AND PINEAPPLE UPSIDE DOWN CAKE COCKTAIL

3RD STREET SALOON Located in Boonville, Indiana; 3rd Street Saloon serves great food and spectacular entertainment, including pool, darts, and live music. From a large menu of appetizers, salads, sandwiches, steaks, and daily specials, your quest for a mouthwatering meal will be met on Third Street.

118 S. THIRD ST., BOONVILLE, IN • FACEBOOK.COM/3RDSTREETSALOON JULY/AUGUST 2022 EVANSVILLE LIVING

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GARLIC BUTTER SHRIMP AND GRITS

NICOISE SALAD

QUICHE LORRAINE AND GRILLED ASPARAGUS

COSMOS BISTRO Cosmos Bistro utilizes a collection of local chefs to provide unique dining options, including French bistro, Cajun and grilled meats. We grow many of our ingredients (lettuce, tomatoes, herbs) and use local producers when possible. We are redefining fast-casual dining one dish at a time.

101 S.E. FIRST ST. • COSMOS-BISTRO.COM

LOCAL PRODUCERS

SEASONAL FRUITS AND VEGETABLES

COOKING STAPLES

LOCAL SOURCE Local Source is an online marketplace that connects local producers directly with consumers. Weekly ordering ensures that everything is delivered at peak freshness. We support local, sustainable agriculture, and we are the place to find astonishingly fresh fruits, vegetables, and cooking staples.

111 S.E. THIRD STREET STE. 190 • LOCALSOURCESWI.COM • 812-455-6114 114

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DINE

INVENTOR OMELET

JULY/AUGUST 2022 EVANSVILLE LIVING

115

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FINE CIGARS

FIDEL'S BOURBON & CIGAR BAR

HOUSE PRIVATE BARRELS

FIDEL'S BOURBON & CIGAR BAR Fidel’s is a cigar and bourbon lounge located just above Walton’s Smokehouse and Southern Kitchen in Haynie’s Corner Arts District. We offer a variety of craft cocktails, a fine catalogue of cigars, and private barrels of house selected bourbons, all with an eclectic, old world atmosphere. When you’re here, ask about our new cigar lockers and upcoming special events with select bourbons and wines.

950 PARRETT ST. • 812-467-4255 • FACEBOOK.COM/FIDELSBOURBONBAR

OLE SMOKY FLAVORED MOONSHINE

SMOKEHOUSE SPECIALTIES

ALABAMA WHITE CHICKEN PIZZA

WALTON'S SMOKEHOUSE & SOUTHERN KITCHEN A brand new dining destination rebranded from an Evansville classic, Walton's offers smokehouse delights in a unique atmosphere in Haynie's Corner. Try our meats off the smoker, pulled pork, brisket, turkey, ribs, or chicken; brick oven wood-fired pizza; and daily plate specials, every day but Monday.

956 PARRETT ST. • 812-467-4255 • FACEBOOK.COM/WALTONSSMOKEHOUSE 116

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DINE

PLANT-BASED PEPPERONI 8" LITTLE ZIP

KIDS ZIP, COOKIE, 8" LITTLE ZIP, 7" SQUARE ZIP

OWNER BRAD NIEMEIER WITH YOUTH FIRST

AZZIP PIZZA Azzip Pizza has been serving the community personal pizzas since 2014 and now has four locations in the Tri-State. In 2021, Azzip won Best Pizza and Business that Gives Back in Evansville Living’s Best of Evansville awards. New items this year include the Cinnamon Sticks and Plant-Based Pepperoni. Azzip is committed to giving back to local schools and youth services initiatives, with more than $75,000 donated in 2021.

4 LOCATIONS IN THE TRI-STATE • AZZIPPIZZA.COM

THE NEW OLD FASHIONED, GRAND LEMON DROP, WILD BERRY MARGARITA

BOURBON BBQ BURGER

SEARED SALMON

BAR LOUIE Join the gastrobar revolution at Bar Louie. Try our Bourbon BBQ Burger, and cool off with the fruity flavor of the Wild Berry Margarita. Take it outside and enjoy the summer weather on our patio area.

7700 EAGLE CREST BLVD. • 812-476-7069 • BARLOUIE.COM JULY/AUGUST 2022 EVANSVILLE LIVING

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LASAGNA

RIBEYE

STROMBOLI

SMITTY’S ITALIAN STEAKHOUSE A selection of classics with a tendency to allow the regional Italian foods and spices to do the talking characterizes Smitty’s menu. Whether you’re searching for the perfect datenight spot or an easy bite of lunch, Smitty’s provides a relaxed atmosphere and carefully crafted wine menu. Call to reserve our party room, or dine al fresco on our patio!

2109 W. FRANKLIN • 812-423-6280 • SMITTYSEVANSVILLE.COM 1213 W MARYLAND ST. ST. • 812-424-7442 • FACEBOOK.COM/BIGTOPDRIVEIN

SAUSAGE SAMPLER

HEIDELBERG SANDWICH

PIG KNUCKLE APPETIZER

GERST HAUS Enjoy a Fishbowl of our homegrown Gerst Amber beer as you soak up the authentic Germantown atmosphere, centrally located in the heart of Franklin Street. We’ve brought our own Nashville’s “Best” Reuben sandwich to the neighborhood. The Wiener schnitzel and bratwurst are a must try! Call for reservations.

2100 W. FRANKLIN ST. • 812-424-1420 • GERSTHAUSEVANSVILLE.COM 118

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TACOS AL PASTOR

ANACONDA BURRITO, MICHELADA

FLAUTAS MEXICANA

EL PATRON MEXICAN RESTAURANT El Patron offers the finest Mexican cuisine in the Tri-State. Serving up flavorful dishes, like the Camaron Playa and Chuletas Indiana, and offering $1.99 award-winning margaritas every day, El Patron makes your every visit feel like a fiesta. We have room for large parties and business meetings; call us for catering information.

943 NORTH PARK DRIVE • 812-402-6500 • EL-PATRONMEXICANRESTAURANT.COM

THE BIG "O" RINGS

BACON BURGER

DELUXE 33 PIZZA

BUBBA'S 33 Bubba's 33, a locally owned and operated establishment, makes all food in-house from scratch, right down to the sauces on our wings and dressings on our salads. No kidding. Our patties are cooked medium well and served hot and juicy on a toasted bun. We are known for our hand-stretched, stone-baked pizzas as well! Come give this sports-themed family restaurant a try!

1 N. BURKHARDT ROAD • 812-901-6409 • BUBBAS33.COM JULY/AUGUST 2022 EVANSVILLE LIVING

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OUTDOOR PATIO

LASAGNA, WINE, SMOKED SALMON ANTIPASTO

BANQUET ROOM

DILEGGE’S BANQUET ROOM Why not hold your next event in DiLegge’s spacious Banquet Room? We accommodate up to 120. Guests also can reserve the Dining Room for up to 75 people. The Garden Patio seats up to 50 guests and has the most beautiful al fresco dining experience anywhere. We offer you authentic Italian flavors with outstanding service. Providing on-site and off-site catering for all occasions. Plenty of off-street parking.

607 N. MAIN ST. • 812-319-4747 OR 812-449-9864 • DILEGGES.COM

MINI JUICY LUCYS

CALIFORNIA COBB SALAD

DRAKE'S

Drake’s calls itself “a restaurant that loves beer and a bar that loves food.” The menu includes enormous griddle-pressed burgers, steaks, mini burgers, shareable appetizers like buffalo chicken dip and BLT tots, build-your-own tacos, hearty salads, and all sorts of sandwiches. Drake’s also serves a full sushi menu offering sushi lovers rare flavors and perfectly executed classics, all hand-rolled to order in a window open for viewing from the restaurant. Available dine-in, carry-out and delivery.

1222 HIRSCHLAND ROAD • 812-401-2920 • DRAKESCOMEPLAY.COM 120

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CRAB RANGOON ROLL

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DINE

LOADED BREAKFAST TOTS

THE ROCKWELL SUPREME

BISCUIT BELLY

ICED LATTE, BLOODY MARY, KENTUCKY COFFEE

Biscuit Belly is a craft-casual restaurant that brings chef-focused recipes to life with over-the-top, made-from-scratch biscuit sandwiches. Melt away with buttery, flaky biscuits made fresh every day and topped with a variety of your favorite Southern comfort foods! And don't forget to add a boozy drink or appetizer for a fully loaded brunch experience that will have you coming back for more. Open seven days a week for breakfast, brunch, and lunch.

945 N. BURKHARDT ROAD • 812-777-8300 • BISCUITBELLY.COM

OPUS ONE, 2018

SEARED AHI TUNA TATAKI PAIRED WITH MARTIN CODAX ALBARIÑO

GRILLED CHEESE DUMPLINGS

ENTWINED WINE & DINE Entwined brings an upscale, cosmopolitan vibe to the wine and cocktail scene like never before. Offering a curated list of fine wines, craft beer, cocktails, and a seasonal tapas menu, there is something for even the most unique palate. We also have private event spaces. Open Tuesday through Thursday 4 p.m. to 10 p.m. and Friday through Saturday 4 p.m. to 11 p.m.

303 MAIN ST. • 812-550-1393 • @ENTWINEDBAR • ENTWINEDBAR.COM JULY/AUGUST 2022 EVANSVILLE LIVING

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BLUEBERRY GOAT CHEESE FLATBREAD

MAC N CHEESEBURGER

BARREL CUT FILET, TWICE BAKED POTATO

BARREL HOUSE Lift your spirits at the newest bar and restaurant in town. The Barrel House offers a little bit of everything for diners of all ages. From flatbreads and steaks, to specialty sandwiches and burgers, enjoy the versatile menu in an upscale casual atmosphere with music, TVs, and bar game nights all facilitated by our committed staff.

1700 MORGAN CENTER DRIVE • 812-303-6560 • THEBARRELHOUSE.COM

THE PAPADAPOLOUS SALAD

JIVE TURKEY SANDWICH, TANGLED UP IN BLUE SALAD

THE GRANOLA JAR A hot, local lunch spot that also will satisfy your sweet tooth, Granola Jar’s specialities include house-made granola, vegetarian and vegan options, and delicious desserts. Call for information on catering and gift baskets.

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YEBRA MALFOOF

LAMB CHOPS

SALAD

HOUSE OF COMO Step foot into the exotic Middle East and enjoy a colorful menu packed with traditional Arabian plates, supplemented with Italian specialties. House of Como is noted for their hearty steak and chops menu and assortment of seafood. Bar opens at 4 p.m. Tues. - Sat. Dining: 5-8 p.m. Tues. Thurs., closed Sunday and Monday.

2700 S. KENTUCKY AVE. • 812-422-0572

FRUIT SMOOTHIES

SPECIALTIES AND SIDES

CORTADILLO DE PUERCO

LA CAMPIRANA La Campirana is a 100 percent authentic Mexican grill on Evansville’s East Side. Celebrating our seventh year, we’ve perfected the art and flavors of your favorite dishes. Stop in and stay for a hearty dinner, such as the Cortadillo de Puerco, or grab lunch on the go, just don’t forget one of our fresh fruit smoothies on the side.

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COCONUT CREAM PIE

FRIED CHICKEN, CORN, AND MASHED POTATOES

THE LOG INN

THE LOG INN The Log Inn, originally a stage coach stop that Abraham Lincoln once visited, opened in 1965 as a restaurant specializing in family style dinners. The Elpers family that started it all still owns and operates the business. Diners have a choice of fried chicken, ham, or roast beef served with mashed potatoes, gravy, two vegetables, slaw and hot rolls.

12491 COUNTY ROAD 200 E., HAUBSTADT, IN • 812-867-3216 • THELOGINN.NET

VENEZUELAN AREPAS

SAMPLER PLATTER

LOS ALFARO’S RESTAURANT Come travel Latin America in one location at Los Alfaro’s Restaurant! We serve food and drinks from nine countries in Latin America! We just moved to our new location at 5201 Kratzville Road. We’ll be updating our menu and serving style, while keeping classic dishes, plus providing event spaces for weddings, bridal showers, corporate events, and birthdays! Come join us!

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CHICKEN OYAKDON, GYOZA, CRAB RANGOON

SUSHI COMBO

OSAKA JAPANESE HIBACHI AND SUSHI

OSAKA JAPANESE HIBACHI AND SUSHI Osaka Japanese Hibachi and Sushi is a casual dine-in restaurant offering a wide assortment of Asian cuisine. Order off our diverse menu of classics and specialties like the Mushroom Black Pepper Beef, or try fresh, handmade sushi, such as the Evansville Roll.

5435 PEARL DRIVE • 812-303-0359 • OSAKAEVANSVILLE.COM

CHICKEN PARMESAN WITH GREEN BEANS

NORTH MAIN ANNEX GOURMET CATERING & DELI

VEGETABLE FRITTATA

NORTH MAIN ANNEX GOURMET CATERING & DELI Located in the historic Post Office Annex, North Main Annex Gourmet Catering & Deli offers customized catering services for unique private and corporate events. The deli has fantastic breakfasts, salads and baked goods Monday – Saturday with a daily changing menu. Visit www.annexcatering.com for complete catering and deli selections.

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OUR LITTLE BBQ JOINT, SMOKING SINCE THE '60S

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PORK SANDWICH, BEANS, POTATO SALAD

OUR BBQ BAKED BEANS (37,000+ POUNDS SOLD LAST YEAR!)

THOMASON'S BARBECUE Upon arriving at Thomason’s, you’ll be greeted by a delicious, smokey aroma emanating from our pit in the middle of the restaurant. All our meat is smoked over hickory wood, pulled apart by hand, and dipped to order. And you won’t want to leave without trying our mouthwatering BBQ Baked Beans!

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HOMEMADE CINNAMON ROLL CHEESECAKE

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SNAPS Located in the heart of downtown Jasper, Snaps is a full restaurant and bar that has served the area since 1872. Try our smothered steak or one of our great mixed drinks. We are known for our comfortable and casual atmosphere, our great service, and our fried gator bites.

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CELEBR CELEB R ATING 110 YEARS!

RIB AND PULLED CHICKEN

NISBET INN

FAMOUS RIB GUMBO AND KELLIE’S CORNBREAD

NISBET INN Constructed in 1912, Nisbet Inn was an oasis of food, drink, and lodging. We currently operate as a full-service restaurant and tavern 11 a.m. until 9:30 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. We are located 1.2 miles south of Exit 18 off I-64 on Nisbet Road.

6701 NISBET ROAD, NORTHERN VANDERBURGH COUNTY • 812-963-9305 • NISBET-INN.COM

TURONI’S CRAFT BEER

VINNY’S PEPPER PLANET, BREADSTICKS, SALAD

DRIVE-THRU WINDOW

TURONI’S Turoni’s pizza has been made in Evansville for over five decades, creating the best atmosphere and the best pizza. Whether you’re stopping for lunch or enjoying a thin crust pizza with a handcrafted beer, Turoni’s is proud to be your neighborhood’s local pizza joint.

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CROQUE MADAME, CHICKEN AND WAFFLES, SMOKED SALMON BOARD, BISCOTTI HARD ICED COFFEE, BLACKBERRY MIMOSA

TIN FISH’S CLASSIC FISH & CHIPS AND TACO PLATE

THE TIN FISH Since 2007, The Tin Fish has been a local favorite and premiere seafood destination in the Evansville area. Open daily for lunch and dinner with indoor and outdoor seating available, The Tin Fish is a friendly, often bustling, always casual, place to enjoy icy cold piles of chubby oysters, delicious seafood platters, wine by the glass, beer, and smart cocktails. Don’t miss brunch from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Sundays.

707 STATE ST., NEWBURGH, IN • 812-490-7000 • TINFISHNEWBURGH.COM

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SCHNITZELBANK AND SCHNITZELBANK CATERING A landmark in the predominately German community of Jasper, Indiana, Schnitzelbank maintains “Olde World” ambiance and classic German favorites. With Schnitzelbank’s mobile kitchens, they are capable of cooking it hot and on the spot for any event.

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CARNIVORE

MAD SCIENTIST, TACO PIZZA, STROMBOLI

TWISTED TOMATO

TWISTED TOMATO Twisted Tomato's made-from-scratch pizza dough is loaded down with the freshest ingredients and baked to a crispy perfection. Also serving oven baked sandwiches and amazingly delicious appetizers, we're best known for our wicked sauce. Visit one of our locations today!

NORTH SIDE - 2333 ST GEORGE ROAD • 812-401-2323 • TWISTEDTOMATOPIZZAS.COM

TANDOORI CHICKEN

GOAT CURRY WITH RICE, ROSEMARY NAAN

CHILI MOMO

YAK & YETI HIMALAYAN CUISINE We founded Yak & Yeti out of a deep love for real Himalayan and Indian food, for food that is fresh, healthy, and authentic. We only use real ingredients that were used in recipes handed down from generation to generation. The history of our food is in the taste and quality.

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CHICKEN SALAD CHICK Catering from Chicken Salad Chick is perfect for any occasion! We offer a variety of Chicken Salad Chick classics. Choose from mini croissant sandwiches, chicken salad bowls, sides, sweet treats, or our convenient lunch boxes.

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FRIENDSHIP DINER At Friendship Diner we always are looking for better ways to serve you. We pride ourselves on providing the highest quality foods in the Tri-State for breakfast and lunch.

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WINZERWALD WINERY Winzerwald Winery’s Wein Kitchen Restaurant serves up artisan cheeses, charcuterie trays, flatbreads, and huge 10-inch Bavarian soft pretzels served salted or with sugar, cinnamon, and vanilla frosting. Monthly Sips and Samples events feature great tastes of themed foods meticulously paired with Winzerwald wines — a Southern Indiana favorite event.

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Family owned and operated for more than 50 years, Zesto on Riverside has been serving the Tri-State since 1952. Take a step back in time to the good ol’ days with great-tasting food made to order the old-fashioned way – burgers, tenderloins, crinkle-cut fries, shakes, ice cream, and more!

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RESTAURANTS THAT DEFINE OUR CITY

FINE DINING CAVANAUGH’S: 421 N.W. Riverside Drive (inside Tropicana Evansville),

812-433-4000. Steaks, fresh seafood, overlooking the Ohio River, and entertainment in piano bar. MA.T.888 CHINA BISTRO: 5636 Vogel Road, 812-475-2888. Specialties include lemongrass fish, Peking duck, and chicken lettuce wraps. MADELEINE’S FUSION RESTAURANT: 423 S.E. Second St., 812-491-8611. Appetizers, soups, salads, entrées, including day catch seafood and prime steaks, extensive bar selections, and wine cellar. Special dietary requests honored. Private meeting rooms and in-season patio dining available.

UPSCALE CASUAL AMY’S ON FRANKLIN: 1418 W. Franklin St., 812-401-2332. Comfort food influenced by the French Quarter, Mexico, and Texas.

BAR LOUIE: 7700 Eagle Crest Blvd., 812-476-7069. Full bar, expansive

menu with mini Kobe hot dogs, the Luigi sandwich with shaved rib eye, and large hamburger selection. THE BARREL HOUSE: 1700 Morgan Center Drive, 812-303-6560. A steakhouse with dining room, patio, and bar seating to enjoy a diverse menu of burgers, steaks, salads, flatbreads, and more. BIAGGI’S RISTORANTE ITALIANO: 6401 E. Lloyd Expressway, 812-421-0800. Italian cuisine. BONEFISH GRILL: 6401 E. Lloyd Expressway, 812-401-3474. Wood-burning grill, fish, steaks, pasta dishes, soups, salads, and its famous Bang Bang Shrimp. H BRU BURGER BAR: (Restaurant with the Best Burger, 2021) 222 Sycamore St. in the former Greyhound bus terminal, 812-302-3005. Signature burgers, classic sandwiches, salads, appetizers, desserts, and an extensive drink menu. CAMBRIDGE GRILL: 1034 Beacon Hill, 812-868-4653. Salads, sandwiches, pizzas, entrées, and an expanded wine menu. THE COLLECTIVE: 230 Main St. above Comfort by the Cross-Eyed Cricket. 812-202-8051. Specialty, fresh appetizers and entrees and an extensive beverage list. COMFORT BY THE CROSS-EYED CRICKET: 230 Main St. 812-909-3742. Full breakfast menu, home-style favorites, sandwiches, and salads. COPPER HOUSE: 1430 W. Franklin St., 812-909-8089. Unique cuisine meets comfort food.

CORK ‘N CLEAVER: 650 S. Hebron Ave., 812-479-6974. Steak, prime rib,

chicken, seafood, salad bar, soup, and sandwich lunches. ENTWINED WINE AND COCKTAIL BAR: 303 Main St., 812-550-1393. A robust wine, beer, and cocktail list and a seasonal tapas menu. HOUSE OF COMO: 2700 S. Kentucky Ave., 812-422-0572. Baked chicken dishes, lamb chops, fish entrées, and oversized steaks with Lebanese and Middle Eastern influence. RIVERWALK RESTAURANT & CATERING: 6 Walnut St. (inside the Hadi Shrine building), 812-758-4644. Cocktails, burgers, sandwiches, seafood, fish, and specialty plates from the Acropolis menu. SAMUEL’S: 113 SE. Fourth St., 812-777-0047. A wide range of shareable bites for the table, specialty entrees, and sandwiches rotating seasonally for those 21-plus only. SCHYMIK’S KITCHEN: 1112 Parrett St., 812-401-3333. Globally influenced restaurant and wine bar. WALTON’S SMOKEHOUSE AND SOUTHERN KITCHEN: 956 Parrett St., 812467-4255. Formerly Walton’s International Comfort Food, serving smokehouse delights in a unique atmosphere. THE WINE DOWN: 8666 Ruffian Lane, Newburgh, IN, 812-490-0066. A wide selection of wine with appetizers, flatbreads, and desserts.

PRIVATE CLUBS EVANSVILLE COUNTRY CLUB: 3810 Stringtown Road, 812-425-2243. Executive chef on staff. Diverse menu selection. Member-only dining.

OAK MEADOW COUNTRY CLUB: 11505 Browning Road, 812-867-1900.

Chef-created menu in full-service dining room and diverse options ranging from traditional to cutting edge. Breakfast served on weekends. Member-only dining. ROLLING HILLS COUNTRY CLUB: 1666 Old Plank Road, Newburgh, IN, 812925-3336. Executive chef on staff. New and classic dishes including chicken, seafood specials, and pastas. Member-only dining.

DELIS THE BISTRO: 1 Main St. (Old National Bank), 812-424-5801. Fresh soups, salads, sandwiches, paninis, desserts, and daily specials. Catering available.

BITS AND BYTES: 216 N.W. Fourth St., 812-423-5113. Breakfast, deli-style sandwich lunches, and desserts.

CHICKEN SALAD CHICK: 1414 Hirschland Road, 812-594-9820. More than 12 flavors of chicken salad, soups, sides, and desserts.

BRUSCHETTA CLASSICO FROM BIAGGI’S RISTORANTE ITALIANO

THE DELI: 421 N.W. Riverside Drive (inside Tropicana Evansville), 812-433-

4000. Deli sandwiches, salads, hot dogs, polish sausage, and pizza.

EMGE’S DELI AND ICE CREAM: 3848 N. First Ave., 812-422-3026. Sandwiches, homemade deli salads, soups, and daily specials.

FIREHOUSE SUBS: 1031 N. Green River Road, 812-909-4445. Hot and

cold subs with toppings such as smoked turkey, sliced chicken, veggies, and white chicken salad. THE GRANOLA JAR CAFÉ & BAKERY: 1033 Mount Pleasant Road, 812-4371899; 333 State St., Newburgh, IN, 812-437-1899; 5600 E. Virginia St., 812-401-8111. Specializes in house-made granola, breads, and vegetarian and vegan options. HONEYBAKED HAM: 1446 N. Green River Road, 812-471-2940. Boxed lunches, sandwiches, salads, as well as whole, half, or slices of ham. Variety of desserts and side items. JASON’S DELI: 943 N. Green River Road, 812-471-9905. Sandwiches, salads, and other healthy meals with fresh ingredients and no artificial trans fats, MSG, or high fructose corn syrup. JIMMY JOHN’S: 701 N. Burkhardt Road, 812-401-5400; 130 N. St. Joseph Ave., 812-402-9944; 330 Main St., 812-402-5653; 2320 N. Green River Road, 812-402-5747; 8680 High Point Drive, Newburgh, IN, 812-490-7111. Deli-style sandwiches, fresh-baked bread, vegetables prepared daily, and cold cut meats. H LIC’S DELI AND ICE CREAM: (Best Ice Cream, 2021) 800 E. Diamond Ave., 812-424-4862; 4501 Lincoln Ave., 812-477-3131; 2311 W. Virginia St., 812-423-4173; 2001 Washington Ave., 812-473-0569; 11 N.W. Fifth St., 812-422-2618; 8700 Ruffian Lane, Newburgh, IN, 812858-0022. Deli-style soups, salads, sandwiches, locally made ice cream, and sorbets. MCALISTER’S DELI: 2220 N. Green River Road, 812-618-2050; 5301 Pearl Drive, Ste. 100, 812-228-4222; 3788 Libbert Road, Newburgh, IN, 812-490-3354. Deli sandwiches, salads, spuds, and sweet tea. OLD TYME DELI & MEAT SHOP: 307 N. 1st Ave., 812-401-1030. A traditional deli and meat shop offering plate lunches. PANERA BREAD: 220 N. Burkhardt Road, 812-476-7477; 5201 Pearl Drive, 812-250-7088; 4015 Gateway Blvd., Newburgh, IN, 812-706-6386. Breads, sandwiches, paninis, soups, salads, and specialty coffee drinks. PENN STATION EAST COAST SUBS: 137 N. Burkhardt Road, 812-479-7366; 4827 Davis Lant Drive, 812-402-7366; 5310 Pearl Drive, 812-434-7366; 8887 High Pointe Drive, Newburgh, IN, 812-401-7366; 1111 Barrett Blvd., Henderson, KY, 270-826-7361; 3525 Frederica St., Owensboro, KY, 270-683-1515. Grilled, made fresh-to-order sub sandwiches, homemade hand-cut fries, and fresh-squeezed lemonade. SICILIANO SUBS: 2021 W. Franklin St., 812-303-3382. Specialty sandwiches like the Cuban and Siciliano subs. WHICH WICH: 5401 E. Lloyd Expressway, 812-471-2818; 6401 N. Green River Road, 812-867-0826. An extensive menu of customizable sandwiches and sides.

BAKERIES, COFFEEHOUSES, AND ICE CREAM BEA SWEET TREATS: 4111 Merchant Drive, Newburgh, Indiana, 812-454-7728. Custom cakes and cookies, macarons, cookies, and other baked goods.

BE HAPPY PIE COMPANY: 2818 Mount Vernon Ave., 812-449-7718. Madefrom-scratch pies, cookies, scones, and cookie pies.

BEANS & BARISTAS: 800 N. Green River Road (inside Eastland Mall),

812-475-8566. Full coffee bar, gourmet coffees and teas, Italian sodas, and various pastry treats. Retail gourmet coffee beans and teas and unique gifts. CLEO’S BAKERY & BROWN BAG LUNCHES: 9 W. Jennings St., Newburgh, IN, 812-853-0500. Full bakery with cookies, scones, muffins, cupcakes, coffee, and lunches including signature sandwiches paired with choice of chips, pickles, and homemade soup. CRUMBL COOKIES: 939 N. Burkhardt Road, Ste. B, 812-965-4133. Delivery and carry-out homemade, gourmet cookies. D-ICE: 800 N. Green River Road (inside Eastland Mall), 812-319-9071. Thai-fried ice cream rolls. H DONUT BANK BAKERY AND COFFEE SHOP: (Best Bakery, Cup of Coffee, 2021) 210 N. St. Joseph Ave., 812-426-1011; 2128 N. First Ave., 812-426-2311; 1031 E. Diamond Ave., 812-426-0011; 5 N. Green River Road, 812-479-0511; 1950 Washington Ave., 812-477-2711; 3988 State Highway 261, Newburgh, IN, 812-858-9911; 1200 Lincoln Ave., 812402-4111; 1303 W. Broadway St., Princeton, IN, 812-385-3711; 2630A U.S. Highway 41, Henderson, KY, 270-212-0181. Donuts, coffee, cookies, other baked goods, and smoothies.

UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED, restaurants are handicapped-accessible and accept major credit cards. City and

county ordinances prohibit smoking in many facilities. We suggest calling ahead to check which venues are exempt. Evansville Living has made every attempt to present an accurate guide. Please notify us of significant changes in a restaurant’s management, location, or menu. This directory is compiled by editorial staff and not based on advertising. P H OTO S BY Z AC H S T R AW

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Dining Directory DUNKIN’: 3960 N. First Ave., 812-550-1500; 850 N. Green River Road, 812-

303-5797; 3955 Orchard Lane, Newburgh. Donuts, pastries, breakfast sandwiches, and a variety of coffees. GAYLACAKE: 320 N. Main St., 812-454-9791. Homemade cakes, mints, chocolate caramel pretzels, and candies. HONEY + MOON COFFEE CO.: 612 S. Weinbach Ave., 812-602-3123; 1211 Tutor Lane, 812-893-2945; 20 W. West Water St., Newburgh, IN. 812-7468168. Curated coffee, drinks, fresh food, and Bliss Artisan ice cream. JUST RENNIE’S COOKIE CO.: 100 S.E. Fourth St., 812-490-8098. Gourmet lunches, chicken salad sandwiches, club wraps, and cookies. LIL’ TATE’S CUPCAKES: 333 State St. Newburgh, IN, 812-499-3906. Custom or fresh cakes, cupcakes and treats. MILK & SUGAR SCOOP SHOPPE: 2027 W. Franklin St., 812-602-1423; 10931 Highway 66. Premium ice cream shop. MR. BUBBLE TEA: 503 N. Green River Road, 812-550-3166. Smoothies, Asian beverages, and bubble tea in different flavors. MULBERRY JEANS: 600 State St., Newburgh, IN, 812-490-5835. High tea served with sandwiches, desserts, an extensive collection of premium coffee beans, and a variety of loose-leaf tea. ORANGE LEAF: 701 N. Burkhardt Road, 812-401-5215. Up to 70 flavors of frozen yogurt. PANADERÍA SAN MIGUEL: 2004 Washington Ave., 812-814-8037. Traditional Mexican bakery with cakes, pastries, and bread. PARLOR DOUGHNUTS: 301 N. Green River Road, 812-303-4754; 12 N.W. Third St., 812-303-5906. Fresh doughnuts, croissant doughnuts, and coffee from Proper Coffee Roasters. PENNY LANE COFFEEHOUSE: 600 S.E. Second St., 812-421-8741. Fair trade organic espresso and espresso drinks, gourmet coffees, Italian sodas, fresh-baked pastries, and vegetarian soups. PIECE OF CAKE: 210 Main St., 812-424 2253. Customized cakes, cookies, coffee, sodas, breakfast items, and more. RIVER CITY COFFEE + GOODS: 223 Main St., 812-550-1695. Espresso bar, brewed coffees, pour-overs, and teas. RIVER KITTY CAT CAFE: 226 Main St., 812-550-1553. Coffee, tea, croissants, cookies, biscotti, and savory pastries. STARBUCKS: 624 S. Green River Road (inside Barnes & Noble), 812-475-1054; 504 N. Green River Road, 812-476-7385; 6401 E. Lloyd Expressway, Ste. 16, 812-401-1771; 4700 W. Lloyd Expressway, 812-549-4053; 4650 First Ave., 812-421-0461; 601 Walnut St., 812-423-5002; 7755 State Highway 66, Newburgh, IN, 812-858-0234. SUGAR FIX: 333 State St., Newburgh, IN, 865-851-1164. A candy shop with a variety of candies, chocolates, and sweet treats. TROPICAL SMOOTHIE CAFÉ: 2101 N. Green River Road, 812-297-9727. Smoothies, flatbreads, wraps, sandwiches.

DINERS, CAFÉS, AND FAMILY RESTAURANTS 1820 CAFÉ: 5721 E. Virginia St. (in the Vineyard Bookstore), 812-479-8777.

Croissants with chicken salad, gourmet coffees, and fruit smoothies.

BIG-TOP DRIVE IN: 1213 W. Maryland St., 812-424-7442. Sandwiches, chicken strips, and ice cream.

BISCUIT BELLY: 945 N. Burkhardt Road, 812-777-8300. Shareable breakfast dishes, biscuit sandwiches, biscuits and gravy, and more.

BJ’S RESTAURANT AND BREWHOUSE: 1000 N. Green River Road, 812-550-9320. Soups, salads, pizza, pasta, burgers and sandwiches, and other entrées.

BURGER BANK: 1617 S. Weinbach Ave., 812-475-2265. Mini-burgers cheeseburgers, fries, and more.

CAFÉ COURT (RIDGWAY UNIVERSITY CENTER AT THE UNIVERSITY OF EVANSVILLE): 1800 Lincoln Ave., 812-488-2951. Hot entrées, salad bar, deli

and grill; Chick-fil-A; Starbucks Coffee, sandwiches, and salads at Rademacher’s Cafe; convenience store Aces Place. THE CAROUSEL: 5115 Monroe Ave., 812-479-6388. Classic American cuisine. CATFISH WILLY’S: 5720 E. Virginia St., 812-401-2233. Chicken, burgers, and seafood like crab, lobster, shrimp, and gator. CLEAVERS: 5501 E. Indiana St., 812-473-0001. A casual restaurant serving sandwiches including pulled pork, Chicago-style Italian beef, pork loin, and steak. CROSS-EYED CRICKET: 2101 W. Lloyd Expressway, 812-422-6464. Traditional American cuisine. DINER BY MELE’S: 550 N. Green River Road, 812-402-1272. Regional specialties, Mexican-inspired dishes, and all-day breakfast. FLOURISH PLANT-BASED EATERY: 222 S. Red Bank Road, 812-602-3202. A rotating menu of vegan meals, juices, smoothies, and wellness shots. FRIENDSHIP DINER: 834 Tutor Lane, 812-402-0201. Breakfast, sandwiches, pasta, and home-style favorites. G.D. RITZY’S: 4810 University Drive, 812-425-8700; 4320 N. First Ave., 812-421-1300; 601 N. Green River Road, 812-474-6259. Grilled hamburgers, grilled chicken, chicken strips, kids meal, hot dogs, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, ultra-thin shoestring-style French fries, old-fashioned ice cream, and milkshakes.

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HOOSIER BURGER CO.: 325 S. Green River Road, 812-437-0155. Fresh-to-

order burgers, fries, ice cream, and milkshakes. THE HORNET’S NEST: 11845 Petersburg Road, 812-867-2386. Soups, sandwiches, salads, daily lunch specials, steaks, seafood, and chicken. JUICY SEAFOOD: 865 N. Green River Road. 812-303-6869. Seafood boils, fried seafood, and appetizers. JOURNEY FISH AND CHICKEN: 825 S. Green River Road, 812-303-2420. Sandwiches, gyros, fried fish, and fried chicken. THE KITCHEN BUFFET: 421 N.W. Riverside Drive, second-level mezzanine, Tropicana Evansville, 812-433-4000, ext. 6059. Home-style buffet options for breakfast and lunch. Dinner buffet available Friday and Saturday nights. KITE & KEY CAFÉ: 2301 W. Franklin St., 812-401-0275. Breakfast and lunch options, coffee, espresso drinks, and desserts. THE LANDING: 1 E. Water St., Newburgh, IN, 812-518-1200. Flatbreads, burgers, sandwiches, pasta, and other entrées. LIBBY AND MOM’S: 2 Richardt Ave., 812-437-3040. Home-cooked meals for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. MAJOR MUNCH: 101 N.W. First St., 812-499-0160. Cheeseburgers, chili, grilled chicken sandwiches, grilled cheese, and catfish. MERRY-GO-ROUND RESTAURANT: 2101 Fares Ave., 812-423-6388. Traditional American cuisine. NELLIE’S RESTAURANT: 8566 Ruffian Lane, Newburgh, IN, 812-629-2142. Breakfast and lunch items, such as omelets, pancakes, waffles, sandwiches, burgers, and salads. THE NEW FRONTIER RESTAURANT AND BAR: 12945 Highway 57, 812-8676786. Bloody Mary bar, appetizers, sandwiches, soups, salads, steak, fried chicken, and pork chops. THE NEW OLD MILL: 5031 New Harmony Road, 812-963-6000. Steaks, chicken, catch of the day, sandwiches, soups, and salads. PATTIE’S SAND TRAP AT FENDRICH GOLF COURSE: 1900 E. Diamond Ave., 812-435-6028. Burgers, sandwiches, chicken, and other entrées. PIE PAN: 905 North Park Drive, 812-425-2261. Traditional American cuisine. Homemade pies sold by the slice and whole. PIER 17 CAJUN SEAFOOD RESTAURANT AND BAR: 600 N. Green River Road., 812-303-6338. Cajun classic appetizers like fried calamari and seafood from shrimp and oysters to catfish served in combo specials, fried baskets, and boils. SAM’S SOUTHERN EATERY: 420 S. Green River Road, 812-410-2220; 3904 N. First Ave., 812-602-3062; 1765 S. Green St., Henderson, KY. Southern-style food including po’ boys, chicken, and seafood. SPUDZ-N-STUFF: 601 E. Boonville New Harmony Road, 812-867-7783; 2403 Washington Ave., 812-402-7783. Steak potatoes, steak fajitas, chicken and mushroom potatoes, taco potatoes, pitas, and more. THE TIN FISH: 707 State St., Newburgh, IN, 812-490-7000. Fresh fish flown in daily, clam chowder, gumbo, salads, and sandwiches. VFW 1114: 110 N. Wabash Ave. of Flags, 812-422-5831. Friday buffet, prime rib on Saturday, and brunch on Sunday. WAYLON’S DINER ON MAIN: 606 N. Main St, 812-777-0088. All-day break-

fast, homemade desserts, lunch specials, and cold sandwiches and wraps for grab-n’-go lunch. ZESTO: 102 W. Franklin St., 812-424-1416; 920 E. Riverside Drive, 812423-5961. Hamburgers, fish and chicken sandwiches, tenderloins, soups, and ice cream.

AMERICAN FARE NATIONAL CHAINS APPLEBEE’S: 5100 E. Morgan Ave., 812-471-0942; 5727 Pearl Drive, 812-

426-2006; 1950 U.S. Highway 41-N., Henderson, KY, 270-826-9427; 5120 Frederica St., Owensboro, KY, 270-926-3472. Soups, sandwiches, salads, and various dinner entrées. BEN’S SOFT PRETZELS: 800 N. Green River Road (inside Eastland Mall), 812-471-7905. Amish-inspired, fresh-baked pretzels and pretzel dishes. BOB EVANS: 1125 N. Green River Road, 812-473-9022. “Homestyle” American menu. BUBBA 33’S: 1 N. Burkhardt Road, 812-901-6409. Fresh burgers, pizza, sandwiches, entrees, classic pub-style appetizers and sides, and a full bar. CHEDDAR’S: 2100 N. Green River Road, 812-491-9976. Garden-fresh salads, homemade soups, and varied entrée selections including pasta, lemon pepper chicken, and tilapia. CRACKER BARREL: 8215 Eagle Lake Drive, 812-479-8788. Classic American cuisine. CULVER’S: 1734 Hirschland Road, 812-437-3333; 4850 W. Lloyd Expressway, 812-492-8000. ButterBurgers and frozen custard. DRAKE’S: 1222 Hirschland Road, 812-401-2920. An American chain known for craft beer, burgers, and sushi. FIVE GUYS BURGERS AND FRIES: 5402 E. Indiana St., 812-401-1773. Burgers, hot dogs, sandwiches, and Cajun fries. FREDDY’S FROZEN CUSTARD & STEAKBURGERS: 2848 N. Green River Road, 812-909-4395; 5501 Pearl Drive, 812-303-6137. Steakburgers, various sandwiches, and frozen custard. GOLDEN CORRAL FAMILY STEAK HOUSE: 130 N. Cross Pointe Blvd., 812-4731095; 1320 N. Green St., Henderson, KY, 270-869-9310. Large buffet selections, steaks, shrimp, and chicken. JAKE’S WAYBACK BURGERS: 115 Cross Pointe Blvd., 812-475-9272; 624 E. Diamond Ave., 812-422-4999. Burgers, hot dogs, and hand-dipped thick milkshakes. LOGAN’S ROADHOUSE: 5645 Pearl Drive, 812-421-0908. American fare including handcut steaks, baby-back ribs, mesquite-grilled chicken, appetizers, salads, and seafood. LONGHORN STEAKHOUSE: 320 N. Green River Road, 812-473-2400; 2974 Heartland Crossing Blvd., Owensboro, KY, 270-686-2220. Steak, chicken, ribs, seafood, sandwiches, and burgers. O’CHARLEY’S: 7301 E. Indiana St., 812-479-6632; 5125 Pearl Drive (at Red Bank Road and Lloyd Expressway), 812-424-3348. Soups, salads, sandwiches, and dinner entrées. OUTBACK STEAKHOUSE: 7201 E. Indiana St., 812-474-0005. Specialty steaks, chicken, seafood entrées, salads, and vegetable side dishes. JULY/AUGUST 2022 EVANSVILLE LIVING

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Philly cheese steaks made-to-order, wraps, hot dogs, burgers and grilled chicken sandwiches, wings, and salads. RAFFERTY’S: 1400 N. Green River Road, 812-471-0024. Soups, salads, sandwiches, and dinner entrées. RED LOBSTER: 4605 Bellemeade Ave., 812-477-9227. Soups, salads, sandwiches, seafood entrées, fresh-catch, and daily specials. RED ROBIN: 6636 E. Lloyd Expressway, 812-473-4100. A variety of hamburgers including the “Banzai Burger,” the “Royal Red Robin Burger,” and the “Whiskey River BBQ Burger.” Full bar menu. TERIYAKI MADNESS: 8833 High Pointe Drive, Newburgh, IN, 812-4900048. Japanese inspired, Seattle-style teriyaki customizable bowls of chicken, steak, tofu, veggies, noodles, white rice, fried rice. TEXAS ROADHOUSE: 7900 Eagle Crest Blvd., 812-477-7427. Ribs, steaks, side items, and fresh baked bread. TGI FRIDAY’S: 800 N. Green River Road (in Eastland Mall food court), 812-491-8443. Specialty salads, sandwiches, burgers, steaks, chicken, pasta, and seafood entrées. WINGSTOP: 499 N. Green River Road, Ste. B, 812-909-3445. Classic, boneless, and crispy tenders wings in 11 flavors.

PIZZERIAS ARCHIE & CLYDE’S RESTAURANT & BAR: 8309 Bell Oaks Drive, Newburgh,

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IN, 812-490-7778. Pizza, fried cheese ravioli, wraps, salads, soups, gyros, and barbecue. H AZZIP PIZZA: (Best Pizza, Business The Gives Back 2021) 5225 Pearl Drive, 812-401-3572; 8680 High Pointe Drive, Newburgh, IN, 812-5183810; 2121 N. Green River Road, 812-901-0490; 3800 Frederica St., Owensboro, KY, 270-215-7741. All personal sized pizzas (8 or 11 inches) made with one meat and all the vegetable toppings included. Thin and crispy pizza. Warm cookies, salad, beer, and wine also available. DONATOS PIZZA: 710 S. Greeen River Road, Ste. 3, 812-618-3868. Pizza, oven-baked subs, salad, calzones, and desserts. DONTAE’S HIGHLAND PIZZA PARLOR: 6669 Kratzville Road, 812-777-0016. Pizzas, strombolis, paninis, and salads. DONTAE’S ON MAIN PIZZA PARLOR: 606 N. Main St., 812-437-8080. The second location of Dontae’s Highland Pizza serves its traditional menu as well as exciting new twists on classic pizzas. FARM 57: 3443 Kansas Road, 812-626-9315. Wood-fired, brick-oven pizza from The Pizza Revolution and weekly food truck events. FAT BOY’S PIZZA: 10722 Highway 662 W., Newburgh, IN, 812-518-3061. Local una-style pizza serving take out orders only. FRANKLIN STREET PIZZA FACTORY: 2033 W. Franklin St., 812-602-3028. Pizza, sandwiches, appetizers, and salads. GARDO’S ITALIAN OVEN: 13220 Darmstadt Road, 812-868-8071. Pizza, sandwiches, wings, appetizers, and salads. GATTITOWN: 316 N. Green River Road, 812-473-3800. Buffet-style pizzas, pastas, salads, and desserts all in a kids’ festival-like arcade. HEADY’S PIZZA: 4120 N. First Ave., 812-437-4343. Pizza, subs, wings, and pasta. Late night delivery available. KIPPLEE’S STADIUM INN: 2350 Division St., 812-476-1963. Fried appetizers, soups, salads, sandwiches, and pizza.

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GANGNAM KOREAN: 518 Main St., 812-550-1171. Korean cuisine, rice and

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noodle dishes, seafood, and sushi rolls.

GOLDEN BUDDHA: 3221 Taylor Ave., 812-473-4855; 5066 Highway 261, Newburgh, IN, 812-853-2680.

GRACIE’S CHINESE CUISINE: 12500 U.S. Highway 41-N., 812-868-8888. JAYA’S RESTAURANT: 119 S.E. Fourth St., 812-422-6667. Authentic Korean cuisine and sushi.

JIMMY GAO’S SZECHWAN CHINESE RESTAURANT: 669 N. Green River Road (in Eastland Place), 812-479-7600. Extensive Chinese menu.

KANPAI: 4593 Washington Ave., 812-471-7076. International fare, Japanese sushi bar, beer, wine, and sake.

LINCOLN GARDEN: 2001 Lincoln Ave., 812-471-8881. Chinese appetiz-

LITTLE CAESARS: 2007 Washington Ave., 812-471-5755; 7755 B Fruitwood

Lane, Newburgh, IN, 812-858-2984; 130 N. St. Joseph Ave., 812-4019555; 2411 Stringtown Road, 812-401-8555; 2539 Highway 41 N., Ste. A, Henderson, KY, 270-831-1800. Pizzas and breads, including cheese bread, pepperoni cheese bread, and crazy bread. THE LOBO LOUNGE: 1200 Edgar St., 812-550-1001. Pizza, adult beverages, and more. LOMBARDI’S NEW YORK PIZZA AND WINGS: 3311 N. Green River Road, 812-602-5255. Authentic New York-style pizza sold by the slice or whole and buffalo wings. LYLE’S SPORTSZONE PIZZA & PUB: 1404 E. Morgan Ave., 812-425-7729. Home of Lyle’s original loaded stromboli. Also serves pizza and sandwiches. MOD PIZZA: 6401 E. Lloyd Expressway, Ste. C, 812-602-5525; 2710 Heartland Crossing, Ste. C, Owensboro, KY, 270-240-2646. Custom, artisan-style pizzas. NOBLE ROMAN’S: 222 S. Red Bank Road, 812-303-4010; 1216 Washington Square Mall, 812-473-4606. Pizzas, salads, breadsticks, garlic bread, hand-sauced chicken wings, pasta, and sandwiches. H PANGEA KITCHEN: (Best Restaurant Atmosphere, Bartender 2021) 111 S. Green River Road, Ste. E., 812-401-2404. Offering authentic Neapolitan and Detroit-style pizzas, Thai cuisine, and Italian gelato. PAPA JOHN’S PIZZA: 4814 W. Lloyd Expressway, 812-423-7272; 5436 E. Indiana St., 812-473-5200; 3955 Haley Drive, Newburgh, IN, 812858-7272; 303 N. Weinbach Ave., 812-477-7700; 4204 N. First Ave., 812-425-2345; 2510 Frederica St., Owensboro, KY, 270-684-3300; 418 Center St., Henderson, KY, 270-826-4444. Pizza, cheese sticks, bread sticks, chicken strips, and hot wings. PIZZA KING: (dine-in facilities) 220 N. St. Joseph Ave., 812-424-7976; 7777 State Highway 66, Newburgh, IN, 812-853-3368; 1033 S. Weinbach Ave., 812-476-4941. Pizza and baked stromboli-type sandwiches. PIZZA OVEN: 5806 Stringtown Road, 812-425-1455. Pizza, strombolis, and Texas barbecue sandwiches. ROCA BAR AND PIZZA: 1618 S. Kentucky Ave., 812-422-7782. Sandwiches, salads, pasta entrées, pizza, steaks, and chicken. Live entertainment and patio dining. ROCA BAR NORTH: 12301 U.S. Highway 41-N., 812-868-8898. Pizza, salad, sandwiches, and entrées. ROUNDERS PIZZA: 510 W. Mill Road, 812-424-4960; 12731 N. Green River Road, 812-867-7172. Specialty pizzas including the Nameless Special, a pie with the tomato sauce on top, and the Bavarian, a pie served with mustard. SAM’S PIZZERIA: 2011 W. Delaware St., 812-423-3160. Pizza, sandwiches, calzones, and breadsticks. THE SLICE: 2011 Lincoln Ave., 812-402-8518. Pizza by the slice or pie. Non-traditional varieties. SPANKEY’S UNA PIZZA: 4404 W. Lloyd Expressway, 812-402-6776. A pizza joint with a variety of specialty pizzas such as The Westsider with an assortment of meat toppings, and the Alfredo chicken bacon. STEVE’S UNA PIZZA: 1005 S. St. James Blvd., 812-477-5411. Dinner-only takeout, thin-crust pizzas and extras.

TASTE OF NYC: 800 N. Green River Road (inside Eastland Mall), 812-4774848. Pizzas, pastas, strombolis, calzones, and more.

TURONI’S FORGET-ME-NOT-INN: 4 N. Weinbach Ave., 812-477-7500. Pizza, salads, sandwiches, and fresh-brewed beers.

TURONI’S PIZZERY AND BREWERY: 408 N. Main St., 812-424-9871. Pizza, salads, sandwiches, and fresh-brewed beers.

TURONI’S PIZZERY AND BREWERY NEWBURGH: 8011 Bell Oaks Drive,

Newburgh, IN, 812-490-5555. Pizza, salads, sandwiches, and freshbrewed beers. TWISTED TOMATO PIZZA CO.: 2333 St. George Road, 812-401-2323; 1101 Harmony Way, 812-242-8882. Specialty pizza and sandwiches.

BARBECUE BANDANA’S BAR-B-Q: 6636 Logan Drive, 812-401-9922. Pork, beef, chicken,

and ribs specially prepared over a pit of select hardwoods for a signature smoked flavor. HICKORY PIT STOP: 1521 N. Main St., 812-422-6919. Barbecue chicken, turkey, pork, mutton, and a variety of side dishes. MARX BBQ: 3119 W. Maryland St., 812-425-1616. Barbecue chicken, pork, and ribs. MISSION BBQ: 1530 N. Green River Road, 812-213-0200. Barbecue, madefrom-scratch sides, and sandwiches. WOLF’S BAR-B-Q: 6600 N. First Ave., 812-424-8891. Barbecue pork, chicken, beef, pork ribs, large variety of vegetable side dishes, homemade soup, and chili.

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2ND LANGUAGE: 401 N.W. Second St., 812-401-2500. Authentic Asian cuisine, ramen, and desserts. Open for lunch and dinner service.

BIG BANG MONGOLIAN GRILL: 2013 N. Green River Road, 812-602-1400. Openbar Mongolian grill stir fry, lunch and dinner options, and appetizers.

CANTON INN: 947 North Park Drive, 812-428-6611. Cantonese and American-style appetizers, soups, poultry, beef, pork, and seafood dishes.

CHINA KING: 590 E. Diamond Ave., 812-423-1896. Traditional Chinese entrées.

CHINA VILLAGE: 8423 Bell Oaks Center, Newburgh, IN, 812-858-8238. CHOPSTICK HOUSE RESTAURANT: 5412 E. Indiana St., 812-473-5551. Chinese buffet.

CRAZY BUFFET: 701 N. Burkhardt Road, 812-437-8833. Chinese buffet. DOMO JAPANESE HIBACHI GRILL, SUSHI, AND RAMEN: 215 N. Green River

Road, 812-491-0003. Authentic Japanese dishes, bento boxes, sushi, ramen, and hibachi. FUJI YAMA: 915 North Park Drive, 812-962-4440. Soups, salads, noodles, rice, sushi, hand rolls, chicken, beef, and shrimp dishes.

ers, soups, lunch platters, and entrées including crab rangoon and General Tso’s chicken. MAMA’S KITCHEN: 1624 N. Green River Road (inside Aihua International Market), 812-479-7168. Stir-fried dishes and soups. NINKI JAPANESE BISTRO: 4222 Bell Road, Ste. 7, Newburgh, IN, 812-5183055. Authentic Japanese cuisine. OSAKA JAPANESE HIBACHI AND SUSHI: 5435 Pearl Drive, 812-303-0359. Hibachi-style cuisine, sushi bar, and specialty dishes for dine-in and carry-out. POKÉ PIRATE: 315 E. Diamond Ave., 812-303-2131. Signature bowls and build-your-own poke. POKÉ RIVER: 6240 E. Virginia St., 812-303-8003. Poke and sushi dishes, like poke bowls, sushi burritos, or poke salads. ROPPONGI JAPANESE STEAK & SUSHI: 7221 E. Indiana St., 812-437-5824. Sushi, filet mignon, New York strip, and hibachi. SAKURA: 4833 Highway 261, Newburgh, IN, 812-490-0553, Japanese cuisine like sushi, sashimi, fried rice, tempura, and hibachi dinners. TASTE OF CHINA: 4579 University Drive, 812-422-1260. THAI PAPAYA CUISINE: 1434 Tutor Lane, 812-477-8424. Authentic Thai cuisine, including Pad Thai, papaya salad, spicy prawn soup, and satay. TOKYO JAPAN RESTAURANT: 3000 N. Green River Road, 812-401-1020. Hibachi grill: chicken, beef, shrimp, and scallops. VIETNAMESE CUISINE: 4602 Vogel Road, 812-479-8818. Vietnamese fare, including traditional noodle dishes. WASABI EVANSVILLE: 1122 Hirschland Road, 812-602-3737. Sushi, hibachi meals, appetizers, soups, and salads. YAK & YETI: 815 S. Green River Road, 812-909-2022. Family recipes passed down from multiple generations from the Himalayan region. YANG’S SHABU SHABU: 4700 Vogel Road, 812-471-8889. Chinese, vegetarian, seafood, Japanese, and more. YEN CHING: 406 S. Green River Road, 812-474-0181. Weekday lunch specials and evening menu items. H ZUKI: (Best Sushi, 2021) Japanese Hibachi Grill & Sushi Lounge: 1448 N. Green River Road, 812-477-9854; 222 Main St., 812-423-9854. Sushi and hibachi-grilled foods. GERMAN H GERST HAUS: (Best Beer Selection, 2021) 2100 W. Franklin St., 812424-1420. Soups, salads, sandwiches, and dinner entrées. Traditional German cuisine. Large imported beer list. INDIAN BOMBAY SPICE BAR AND GRILL: 1003 Diamond Ave., 812-402-0707. Traditional Indian dishes like chicken tikka masala, tandoori chicken, and curry. ROYAL INDIAN CUISINE: 7799 Highway 66, Newburgh, IN, 812-5184018. Authentic Indian cuisine like samosas, tandoori chicken, curry, and more. TAJ MAHAL: 900 Tutor Lane, 812-476-5000. Tandoori chicken, paneer tikka, panjabi curry, kadai paneer, and more. ITALIAN/MEDITERRANEAN ANGELO’S: 305 Main St., 812-428-6666. Pasta, chicken, seafood, veal, and pizzas. CAFÉ ARAZU: 17 W. Jennings St., Newburgh, IN, 812-842-2200. Pitas, wraps, and shish kebabs with lamb, chicken, and beef. KABOB XPRESS: 3305 N. Green River Road, 812-402-0244. Hummus, stuffed grape leaves, falafel, fresh salads, sandwiches, gyro plate, and many kabob plate options. LITTLE ANGELO’S: 8000 Bell Oaks Drive, Newburgh, IN, 812-853-8364. Italian cuisine featuring appetizers, sandwiches, pizzas, pasta, and chicken. LITTLE ITALY: 4430 N. First Ave., 812-401-0588. Italian and Mediterranean pizzas, soups, salads, pasta, chicken, and sandwiches. MANNA MEDITERRANEAN GRILL: 2913 Lincoln Ave., 812-473-7005. Stuffed grape leaves, gyros, and shish kebabs. MILANO’S ITALIAN CUISINE: 500 Main St., 812-484-2222. Pizzas, pasta, baked sandwiches, and dinner entrées. OLIVE GARDEN: 1100 N. Green River Road, 812-473-2903. Soups, salads, pasta, and luncheon entrées. SAUCED: 1113 Parrett St., 812-402-2230. Pasta, steak, and seafood. JULY/AUGUST 2022 EVANSVILLE LIVING

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SMITTY’S ITALIAN STEAKHOUSE: 2109 W. Franklin St., 812-423-6280.

Premium steak, pasta, pizza, and Italian favorites. MEXICAN/TEX MEX CARIBBEAN CUISINE: 1010 S. Kentucky Ave., 812-303-0631. Caribbean and Haitian dishes like red beans and rice, oxtail, and fish. CASA FIESTA MEXICAN RESTAURANT: 2121 N. Green River Road, 812-4014000. Traditional Tex Mex entrees are offered alongside Evansville-centric dish such as chicken on the beach. CHAVA’S MEXICAN GRILL: 4202 N. First Ave., 812-401-1977. Authentic Mexican cuisine offering burritos, tacos, and more. CHICKEN ‘N SALSA: 122 N. Weinbach Ave., 812-303-3004. Authentic Mexican breakfast, lunch, and dinner made with fresh ingredients. CHIPOTLE: 499 N. Green River Road, 812-471-4973. Tacos, burritos, salads, drinks, chips, and guacamole. EL CHARRO MEXICAN RESTAURANT: 720 N. Sonntag Ave., 812-421-1986. Occasional mariachi band performances. Specialties include paella and chimichangas. EL PAISANO GROCERY AND TAQUERIA: 225 S. Green River Road, 812-6023536. Authentic Mexican dishes like tacos, tortas, and burritos with a small grocery store attached. EL PATRON: 943 N. Park Drive. 812-402-6500. The owners of El Charro opened this restaurant on the North Side, offering authentic Mexican cuisine. EL RIO: 1919 N. Green River Road, 812-471-1400. Authentic Mexican dishes. ENA RESTAURANT: 920 Main St., 812-550-1019. Authentic Latin food from countries including Mexico and El Salvador. FIESTA ACAPULCO: 8480 High Pointe Drive, Newburgh, IN, 812-858-7777. Authentic Mexican dishes, grilled steak dinners, and more. GHOST QUESADILLA: 5501 Pearl Drive, 812-985-8477; 4222 Bell Road, Newburgh, IN, 812-490-6000. Mexican favorites like quesadillas, tacos, and burritos. GOLLITA PERUVIAN CUISINE: 4313 E. Morgan Ave., 812-303-5100. Authentic Peruvian cuisine like Peruvian minestrone, tamales, and papa a la huancaína. HACIENDA: 990 S. Green River Road, 812-474-1635; 711 N. First Ave., 812-4236355; 5440 Pearl Drive, 812-422-2055; 600 E. Boonville New Harmony Road, 812-401-2180. Tex-Mex menu available all day. HERRADURA MEXICAN RESTAURANT BAR & GRILL: 4610 Bellemeade Ave., 812-402-0355. Mexican restaurant, bar, and grill. HOT HEAD BURRITOS: 5625 Pearl Drive, 812-437-5010. Burritos, salad bowls, tacos, nachos, quesadillas to order with meat options including chicken, steak, pork, barbacoa, and taco meat. INKAS CHARCOAL GRILL & BAR: 8401 N. Kentucky Ave., 812-810-0325. Authentic Peruvian/American restaurant. JALISCO MEXICAN RESTAURANT: 4044 Professional Lane, Newburgh, IN, 812-490-2814. Authentic Mexican cuisine. LA CAMPIRANA: 724 N. Burkhardt Road, 812-550-1585. Fresh Mexican cuisine and fresh juice bar. LAS AMERICAS STORE AND RESTAURANT, INC.: 1016 S. Weinbach Ave., 812-475-3483. Offers Mexican ingredients for purchase and food made in house. LOS ALFARO’S RESTAURANT: 5201 Kratzville Road, 812-550-1186. Authentic food from Mexico, Argentina, Peru, El Salvado, Columbia, and four other countries. Home to the 2-foot California Breakfast Burrito and the Foot Long Taco. LOS BRAVOS: 3534 N. First Ave., 812-424-4101; 6226 Waterfront Blvd., 812474-9078; 4630 W. Lloyd Expressway, 812-464-3163; 3311 Liberty Blvd., Boonville, IN, 812-897-3442. Traditional Mexican menu. LOS PORTALES MEXICAN GRILL: 3339 N. Green River Road, 812-475-0566. Authentic Mexican dishes, grilled steak dinners, and more. LOS TRES CAMINOS: 12100 U.S. Highway 41-N., 812-868-8550. Authentic Mexican cuisine including chimichangas, burritos, Mexican pizza, and quesadillas. MOE’S SOUTHWEST GRILL: 6401 E. Lloyd Expressway (inside The Evansville Pavilion), 812-491-6637. Fresh Mexican cuisine. NACHOS GRILL: 821 S. Green River Road, 812-471-9481. Authentic Mexican fare made from scratch with fresh ingredients. QDOBA MEXICAN GRILL: 922 N. Burkhardt Road, 812-401-0800. Mexican eats. RIVIERA MEXICAN GRILL: 10604 Highway 662, Newburgh, IN, 812-4909936. Fajitas, quesadillas, nacho platters, taco salads, and chimidogs. SALSARITA’S: 3910 E. Morgan Ave., 812-437-2572; 4077 State Route 261, Newburgh, IN, 812-490-5050. Mexican cuisine like burritos, tacos, taco salads, and its signature Quesorito. TAQUERIA Y PUPUSERIA MIRANDA: 2008 Washington Ave., 812-492-9992. Specializing in authentic Salvadorian Pupusas and street tacos with a variety of fillings. THE TAQUERIA COMPANY: 800 N. Green River Road (inside Eastland Mall), 812-297-0258; 2519 N. First Ave., 812-550-1505. Tacos, quesadilla, nachos, fajitas, and burritos with homemade tortillas.

SPORTS BARS

BUFFALO WILD WINGS GRILL AND BAR: 713 N. Green River Road (in East-

land Place), 812-471-9464; 5405 Pearl Drive, 812-423-9464. Chicken wings cooked with various seasonings, burgers, salads, and chicken. BURGH HOUSE AT SHOWPLACE FEC: 8099 Bell Oaks Drive, Newburgh, IN, 812-853-6843. Specialty burgers, sandwiches, pizza, pasta, and drinks. CHASER’S BAR AND GRILL: 2131 W. Franklin St., 812-401-1699. Sandwiches, pizza, burgers, salads, and lunch specials. CORNER POCKET BAR & GRILL: 1819 N. Fulton Ave., 812-428-2255. Soups, salads, sandwiches, plate lunches, pizzas, stuffed baked potatoes, and appetizers. DOC’S BAR: 1305 Stringtown Road, 812-401-1201. Appetizers, salads, sandwiches, burgers, pizza, and desserts. Family room and kids menu available. Free Wi-Fi and full bar. FRANKLIN STREET TAVERN: 2126 Franklin St., 812-401-1313. Drink specials and pizza. HOOTERS: 4620 Lincoln Ave., 812-475-0229. Appetizers, including cooked and raw oysters, soups, salads, and sandwiches. KC’S MARINA POINTE: 1801 Waterworks Road, 812-550-1050. Seafood options and full bar. H MOJO’S BONEYARD SPORTS BAR & GRILLE: (Best Kept Secret, 2021) 4920 Bellemeade Ave., 812-475-8593. Bar food including chicken wings, burgers, and strombolis. O’BRIAN’S SPORTS BAR & GRILL: 1801 N. Green River Road, 812-401-4630. Irish tavern food, Reubens, burgers, soup, and salad. THE GHOST SPORTS BAR: 4222 Bell Road, Ste. 2 (Next to Ghost Quesadilla), 812-490-6000. Classic bar favorites and spicy specialties. TIKI TIME BAR & GRILL: 1801 Waterworks Road, 812-425-1912. Burgers, hot dogs, gyros, small pizzas, fish dinners, and cold drinks. Open seasonally. WINGS ETC.: 628 E. Diamond Ave., 812-909-2945; 8833 High Point Drive, Newburgh, IN, 812-490-0550. Chicken wings, burgers, wraps, salads, and wide beer selection.

TAVERN FOOD BOKEH LOUNGE: 1007 Parrett St., 812-909-0388. Open daily at 11 a.m.

Offering a full menu including steaks, kabobs, burgers, salads, sandwiches, and vegetarian meals. Brunch on Sunday and late-night breakfasts served Friday and Saturday. THE BREW BROTHERS TAP HOUSE: 421 N.W. Riverside Drive (inside Tropicana Evansville), 812-433-4000. Appetizers, flatbreads, sandwiches, salads, and specialty entrees. Also features 36 rotating seasonal beers on tap. BUD’S ROCKIN’ COUNTRY BAR AND GRILL: 2124 W. Franklin St., 812-4011730. Southern comfort food, daily plate lunch and beer specials, and gourmet flatbreads. DARMSTADT INN: 13130 Darmstadt Road, 812-867-7300. Soups, salads, sandwiches, and plate lunches. Dinner entrées include steaks, fried chicken, and seafood. DEERHEAD SIDEWALK CAFÉ AND BAR: 222 E. Columbia St., 812-425-2515. Soups, salads, sandwiches, and double-decker pizzas. ENIGMA BAR & GRILL: 4044 Professional Lane, Newburgh, IN, 812-4900600. Appetizers, salads, sandwiches, burgers, and various entrées as well as a tequila menu. VEAL PICATTA FROM SMITTY'S ITALIAN STEAKHOUSE

FOOL MOON GRILL AND BAR: 5625 Pearl Drive, 812-467-7486. Appetizers, wings, signature salads, and burgers.

HIGHLAND INN: 6620 N. First Ave., 812-909-1500. Appetizers, salads,

burgers, sandwiches, pizzas, and customer-favorite Bloody Marys.

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THE HILLTOP INN: 1100 Harmony Way, 812-303-3732. Sandwiches in-

cluding brains, fried bologna, fried fish, salad bar, steaks, chicken, and seafood entrées. HORNVILLE TAVERN: 2607 W. Baseline Road, 812-963-9318. Soups, salads, sandwiches, dinner entrées including 16-ounce smoked pork chops, fried chicken, steaks, and daily specials. HORSTKETTER’S TAVERN: 5809 Stringtown Road, 812-423-0692. Traditional tavern serving cold beer and deli meats. K.C.’S TIME OUT LOUNGE & GRILL: 1121 Washington Square, 812-437-9920. Shrimp jammers, loaded fries, fried ravioli, egg rolls, Southwest burger, pulled pork sandwich, Italian beef and gravy, and more. KNOB HILL TAVERN: 1016 Highway 662 W., Newburgh, IN, 812-853-9550. Soups, salads, sandwiches, and dinner entrées including shrimp, steak, chicken, fiddlers, and hand-tossed pizzas. LAMASCO BAR & GRILL: 1331 W. Franklin St., 812-437-0171. Basic tavern menu including soups, salads, and sandwiches. PEEPHOLE BAR & GRILL: 201 Main St., 812-423-5171. Cheeseburgers, onion rings, fries, and the splitter (a fried hot dog). PRIME TIME PUB & GRILL: 8177 Bell Oaks Drive, Newburgh, IN, 812-4900655. Prime rib, burgers, half-pound burgers, salads, more than 30 bourbons, and more. THE ROOFTOP: 112 N.W. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., 812-550-1599. Breakfast, sandwiches, burgers, and pizza. THE SPORTSDEN BAR + GRILL: 701 N. Weinbach Ave., Ste. 110, 812-479-8887. Lyleboli, TNT burger, and Brew City fries. SPORTSMAN’S BILLIARDS AND GRILLE: 2315 W. Franklin St., 812-422-0801. Hamburgers, chicken breasts, and catfish plates. ST. JOE INN: 9515 Saint Wendel Road, 812-963-9310. Soups, salads, sandwiches, plate lunch specials, fiddlers, steaks, and fried chicken dinners. ST. PHILIP INN: 11200 Upper Mount Vernon Road, 812-985-5558. Soups, salads, sandwiches, and plate lunch specials. Dinner including fried chicken, steaks, and shrimp. STOCKWELL INN: 4001 E. Eichel Ave., 812-476-2384. Plate lunches, homemade soup, salads, sandwiches, steak, pork chops, fiddlers, and brain sandwiches. ZAPS TAVERN: 3725 St. Philip Road, 812-985-2121. Tavern-style food including wings, burgers, dinner entrees, and weekend breakfast service.

BREWERIES, WINERIES, AND CRAFT COCKTAILS ARCADEMIE: 22 NW. Sixth St., 812-303-7771. Craft cocktails, regional beer

on tap, and fresh Mexican classics from Botanas by La Campriana.

DAMSEL BREW PUB: 209 N. Wabash Avenue of Flags, 812-909-1956. Pub food and beer brewed on site.

FIDEL'S BOURBON AND CIGAR BAR: 950 Parrett St. (above Walton's), 812-467-4255. More than 100 premium bourbons, prohibition-era cocktails, and extensive cigar lockers.

HAYNIE’S CORNER BREWING CO.: 56 Adams Ave., 812-909-2668. Craft ale, beers, and local wine.

HIGH SCORE SALOON: 323 Main St., Ste. F., 812-909-3229. Arcade bar with local and regional brews, full bar, and trash tots.

JENNINGS STREET PUBLIC HOUSE: 300 W. Jennings St., Newburgh, IN. 812-5184007. Local craft beer, wine, domestics, scratch cocktails, and spirits.

MO’S HOUSE: 1114 Parrett St., 812-401-3800. Two bars serving craft cocktail made from scratch, ample lounge seating, patio space, and snacks.

MYRIAD BREWING COMPANY: 100 S.E. First St., 812-402-1515; 8245 High Pointe Drive, Newburgh, IN, 812-402-1515. House-brewed and guest beers.

CATERING THE BALLROOM AT SAUCED: 1119 Parrett St., 812-422-2230. BAUERHAUS MOBILE CATERING: 13605 Darmstadt Road, 812-759-9000.

Customized menus from simple party trays with gourmet hors d’oeuvres to elegant seven-course meals. CHERYL MOCHAU, PERSONAL CHEF: 812-499-4631. Specializes in preparing and teaching others to prepare food for low-fat and special diets, including Atkins, salt-free, gluten-free, sugar-free, and others. DILEGGE’S: 607 N. Main St., 812-428-3004. Fine Italian-American cuisine available for catering or served in the in-house banquet room. FRANK’S CATERING: 812-475-9880 or 812-746-0214. Homemade meals available for any occasion. JAYSON MUNOZ CATERS: 4593 Washington Ave., 812-471-7076. Favorite dishes from Chef Jayson Munoz. JUST RENNIE’S CATERING: 100 S.E. Fourth St., 812-401-8098. Specializes in fine foods. KOKIES FOOD SERVICE & BANQUET CENTERS: 11917 Highway 66, 812-4238229. Can prepare anything from tacos to lobster. NORTH MAIN ANNEX: 701 N. Main St., 812-250-4551. Gourmet catering from breakfast to dessert, and a daily, fresh-made menu of breakfast, salads, baked goods, and deli classics. PAPPA BEAR’S CATERING: 812-568-8890. Whole hog roasts, hand-sliced brisket, smoked pork chops, rib-eye steaks, pulled pork barbecue, baked chicken, side items, and desserts. PIZZA REVOLUTION: Downtown Evansville Farmers Market and various locations, 812-430-5945. Mobile wood-fired pizza and salads.

REGIONAL DINING BOONVILLE, IN

2ND STREET BISTRO & BAKERY: 115 S. Second St., Boonville, IN, 812-573-8887. Freshly baked desserts, cookies, cakes, pies, and more.

3RD STREET SALOON: 118 S. 3rd St., Boonville, IN. Traditional pub food with unique homemade twists made with local meats.

COMMANDER’S GRILL: 118 W. Locust St., Boonville, IN, 812-715-0055. A sandwich shop with fried chicken, salads, steaks, and pork chops.

PIZZA CHEF OF BOONVILLE: 423 W. Main St., Boonville, IN, 812-897-1600.

Pizza, baked Italian entrées, sandwiches, salad bar, and hot food bar.

TF ICE CREAM: 1002 E. Walnut St., Boonville, IN, 812-715-3367. Ice cream, sherbet, and more. BRISTOW, IN

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ELBIE’S ICE CREAM: 70 SE. Front St., Elberfeld, IN, 812-403-3778. Ice cream stand

with specialty dishes, ice cream nachos, unicorn sundaes, and more. FORT BRANCH, IN R’Z CAFÉ AND CATERING: 104 N. Main St., Fort Branch, IN, 812-615-0039. Classic comfort food to modern cuisine, including breakfast and lunch combinations as well as daily specials. SANDY’S PIZZA: 609 S. Main St., Fort Branch, IN, 812-753-3972; 111 E. Broadway St., Princeton, IN, 812-635-9128. Pizza, strombolis, sandwiches, and spaghetti. THAI CHOW ORIENTAL FOODS: 1007 S. McCreary St., Fort Branch, IN, 812753-3878. Classic Thai food. HAUBSTADT, IN CARRIAGE INN: 103 Gibson St., Haubstadt, IN, 812-768-6131. Plate lunches, sandwiches, soups, salads, steaks, and assorted dinner entrées. HAUB STEAK HOUSE: 101 E. Haub St. (next to railroad tracks), Haubstadt, IN, 812-768-6462. A la carte menu. Steak, prime rib, seafood, chicken, pork, vegetable side dishes, and desserts. LOG INN: 12491 Country Road 200 E., Haubstadt, IN, 812-867-3216. Fried chicken, ham, roast beef, and fiddlers. NISBET INN: 6701 Nisbet Station Road, Haubstadt, IN, 812-963-9305. Homemade soups, desserts, and barbecue. JASPER, IN SCHNITZ BREWERY & PUB: 2031 Newton St., Ste. B, Jasper, IN, 812-848-2739. American and German craft beers, pizza, and sandwiches. SCHNITZELBANK RESTAURANT: 393 Third Ave., Jasper, IN, 812-482-2640. Authentic German food. SCHNITZELBANK CATERING: 409 Third Ave., Jasper, IN, 888-336-8233 or 812634-2584. Caters home-cooked favorites to elegant cuisine. SMALLEY COFFEE: 2955 Newton St., Jasper, IN, 812-482-2442. Handcrafted drinks including tea, coffee, and frozen drinks. SNAPS BAR & GRILL: 1115 Main St., Jasper, IN, 812-848-7627. Sandwiches, burgers, salads, steaks, chicken, and pasta dishes. MONTGOMERY, IN GASTHOF AMISH VILLAGE: 6747 E. Gasthof Village Road, Montgomery, IN, 812-486-4900. Amish-style buffet.

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3 CHICKS FUDGERY: 305 Main St., Mount Vernon, IN, 812-457-2633. Fresh

fudge, gourmet coffee, unique gifts and décor, and charcuterie from Board and Wheel. DUSTY BARN DISTILLERY: 6861 Carson School Road, Mount Vernon, IN. 812-454-0135. A distillery making bourbon, rye, and liqueurs with a tasting room open for sampling, cocktails, and bottle purchases. HAWG N’ SAUCE: 6580 Leonard Road, Mount Vernon, IN, 812-838-5339. Barbecue entrées and home-style side dishes. YOUR WAY CAFE: 111 E. Water St., Ste. 1000, Mount Vernon, IN, 812831-3644. Family-owned restaurant serving traditional breakfast and lunch items. NEW HARMONY, IN BLACK LODGE COFFEE ROASTERS: 610 Church St., New Harmony, IN, 812-682-

2449. Pour-overs, presses, cold-brew iced coffee, espressos, and more.

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mony, IN, 812-682-6150. Caters within a 50-mile radius of New Harmony, Indiana, and offers a variety of food from steaks to sandwiches. RED GERANIUM: 520 North St., New Harmony, IN, 812-682-6171. Contemporary American. SARA’S HARMONY WAY: 500 Church St., New Harmony, IN, 812-682-3611. Various wines, specialty beers, and an assortment of cheeses and salamis. Extensive wine list. YELLOW TAVERN: 521 Church St., New Harmony, IN, 812-682-3303. Must be 21 to enter. Traditional American food. POSEYVILLE, IN THE RED WAGON: 6950 Frontage Road, Poseyville, IN, 812-874-2221. Catfish, oyster, shrimp scampi, and grilled salmon.

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ON THE ROCKS: 305 Walnut St., Rockport, IN., 812-438-6344. Local bar

favorites such as wings, burgers, and pizzas, as well as fresh sandwiches and specialty appetizers. PEPPER’S RIDGE WINERY: 4304 N. County Road 200 W., Rockport, IN, 812-649-9463 (WINE). Free wine tastings, picnic areas, pizza delivery, local meats and cheeses, wine slushies, and weekend live music. SAINT MEINRAD, IN MONKEY HOLLOW WINERY: 11534 E. County Road 1740 N., Saint Meinrad, IN, 812-357-2272. Local organic meats and cheeses, Saturday evening concerts in summer, and tasting room. VINCENNES, IN WINDY KNOLL WINERY: 845 Atkinson Road, Vincennes, IN, 812-726-1600. Wine tastings, fruit wines, and wine slushies. WADESVILLE, IN FROGGY’S RESTAURANT & SPORTS BAR: 7247 Main St., Wadesville, IN, 812-673-4996. Burgers, pizza, sandwiches, and more. SILVER BELL RESTAURANT: 4424 St. Wendel Road, Wadesville, IN, 812963-0944. Sandwiches, fiddlers, pizza, salad bar, and vegetable side dishes. Family-style fried chicken dinner specials. Now serving Flavor Burst soft serve ice cream. HENDERSON, KY AGAVES MEXICAN GRILL: 2003 Stapp Drive, Henderson, KY, 270-957-5028. Mexican fare like burritos, quesadilla, enchiladas, and chimichangas. BURRITO EXPRESS MEXICAN GRILL: 2630 US Highway 41, Henderson, KY, 270-577-1225. Authentic Mexican cuisine and local specials. CAFE ON WATER STREET: 104 N. Water St., Henderson, KY, 270-577-9402. Casual CANCUN MEXICAN RESTAURANT: 341 S. Green St., Henderson, KY, 270-8260067. Fajitas, burritos, quesadillas, enchiladas, seafood, Mexican-style steaks, and more. CHEFWHAT BBQ & MORE: 422 7th St., Henderson, KY., 270-212-0742. Breakfast sandwiches and fresh barbecue lunch specials made to order daily. THE DAIRIETTE: 711 Atkinson St., Henderson, KY, 270-826-2401. Hamburgers, tenderloins, fries, milkshakes, and soft-serve sundaes. ELLIS PARK: 3300 U.S. Highway 41-N., Henderson, KY, 812-425-1456 or 800-333-8110. Clubhouse dining. FARMER & FRENCHMAN: 12522 U.S. Highway 41-S, Robards, KY, 270-748-1856. Café featuring cheese and charcuterie trays, salads, Napolitana pizzas, pasta, sandwiches, desserts, beer, and Farmer & Frenchman wines. HENDERSON BREWING COMPANY: 737 Second St., Henderson, KY, 270200-4314. IPAs, porters, farmhouse ales, and more. HENDERSON JUICE CO.: 13 S. Main St., Henderson, KY, 270-832-3767. Fresh juices, smoothies, breakfast items, soups, and wraps. HOMER’S BARBECUE: 128 Second St., Henderson, KY, 270-869-2214. Local barbecue with smoked meats, craft sides, cold beer, and cocktails. HOMETOWN ROOTS: 136 Second St., Henderson, KY, 270-212-3653. Southern comfort food like mac and cheese, pulled pork, and fried chicken. J & B BAR-B-CUE AND CATERING: 48 S. Holloway St., Henderson, KY, 270-830-0033. Chicken, turkey, ham, and pork with a variety of salads and sides. LOS TORIBIO: 1647 S. Green St., Henderson, KY, 270-831-2367. Traditional Mexican cuisine. METZGER’S TAVERN: 1000 Powell St., Henderson, KY, 270-826-9461. Traditional tavern appetizers, soups, sandwiches, and breakfast. MISTER B’S: 1340 Hirschland Road, 812-402-2090; 2611 U.S. Highway 41, Henderson, KY, 270-826-1111. Pizza, wings, sandwiches, soup, salad, and pasta. MR. D’S: 1435 S. Green St., Henderson, KY, 270-826-2505. Classic American cuisine. ROOKIES SPORTS BAR & RESTAURANT: 117 S. Second St., Henderson, KY, 270-826-1106. Angus beef steaks, seafood, pasta, chicken, sandwiches, and Arabian salad. SIDEWALK CAFE: 228 Second St., Henderson, KY, 270-831-2233. Gourmet chicken salad, Italian beef, tomato basil turkey wrap, loaded potato soup, and strawberry cake. TACOHOLICS KITCHEN: 122 First St., Henderson, KY, 270-957-5001. Enchiladas, sopes, quesadillas, Mexican street tacos, and more. TAYLOR’S GRILL ON WHEELS: 130 N. Water St., Henderson, Kentucky, 270-854-4302. Classic smoked meats, barbecue favorites, loaded mac & cheese, and desserts. Take out only. THOMASON’S BARBECUE: 701 Atkinson St., Henderson, KY, 270-826-0654. Barbecue varieties of pork, mutton, ribs, chicken, ham, or turkey, with sides like potato salad, slaw, and barbecue beans. MORGANFIELD, KY FEED MILL RESTAURANT & BAR: 3541 State Highway 60-E., Morganfield, KY, 270-389-0047. Seafood and barbecue. SPOTTSVILLE, KY BOUCHERIE VINEYARDS AND WINERY: 6523 Keyway Drive, Spottsville, KY, 270-826-6192. Wine tastings and winery tours.

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COMPANY..........................................PAGE Farm Boy Food Service....................... 138 3rd Street Saloon................................... 113 Acros Gymnastics...................................82 Azzip Pizza................................................117 Baird.................................................... BC2, 2 Bally's Evansville......................................94 Bar Louie...................................................117 Barrel House, The.................................. 122 Bassemiers.................................................47 Benny's Flooring......................................74 Biaggi's..................................................... 100 Big Top Drive In.....................................130 Biscuit Belly.............................................121 Brinker's Jewelers................................... C2 BRU Burger..............................................104 Bubba's 33..................................................119 Bud's Rockin' Country Bar and Grill.................... 113 Building Blocks................................. 76, 77 Cadiz/Trigg County Tourism Commission..................... 40 Canton Inn...............................................105 Center for Pediatric Therapy................8 Chicken Salad Chick.............................130 Copper House........................................107 Cosmos Bistro.........................................114 Custom Cabinets Furniture.................70 D-Patrick Ford/Lincoln.........................24 D-Patrick Motoplex...............................75 Deaconess Hospital............................... 86 DiLegge's Banquet Room & Catering............................120 Drake's Restaurant................................120 El Patron....................................................119 Entwined Wine & Cocktail Bar..........121 ERA First Advantage Realty/Byrley, Cyndi....................... 41 ERA First Advantage Realty............. 1, 72 Evansville Federal Credit Union...........9 Evansville Otters Baseball................... 41 Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra...44 Evansville Regional Business Committee.......................23 Evansville Surgical Associates...........BC1 Evansville Vanderburgh School Corporation..................80, 81

Fidel's Bourbon and Cigar Bar............116 Frank's Catering..................................... 138 Friendship Diner....................................130 Gangnam Korean Cuisine...................106 Germania Mannerchor........................ 136 Gerst Haus................................................118 Gill Orthodontics...................................39 Give a Dog a Bone.................................. 16 Good Samaritan Home...................83-85 Granola Jar, The..................................... 122 H & H Music............................................. 80 H.G. McCullough Designers Inc..........70 Henderson Lions Club Henderson Arts Festival................ 41 Heritage Woods of Newburgh.......... 86 Herradura Mexican Restaurant........109 Holiday World/Splashin' Safari.......140 House of Como......................................123 Illiana Watermelon Association....... 60 Inka's Charcoal Grill...............................110 Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana...........................38 Kenny Kent Lexus..................................... 11 Kite & Key Cafe.......................................115 Knob Hill House.................................... 138 La Campirana...........................................123 Landscapes By Dallas Foster, Inc........12 Leisure Living Communities....84, 86-87 Liquor Locker...........................................45 Local Source............................................114 Log Inn, The............................................124 Los Alfaro's..............................................124 Mesker Park Zoo & Botanic Garden................................ 40 Midwest Communications................140 MoJo's BoneYard Sports Bar & Grille.......................... 131 Newburgh Dermatology......................38 Newburgh Mercantile........................... 18 Nisbet Inn................................................ 127 NiteLiters, Inc...........................................72 North Main Annex Catering & Deli................................ 125

Old Fashioned Butcher Shoppe........132 Osaka Japanese Hibachi and Sushi.125 Outback Steakhouse.............................99 Pass Pest Control.....................................72 Pella Windows of Evansville...............44 Pet Supplies Plus.....................................44 Pettinga Financial Advisors................... 7 Popham Construction.............................4 Prime Time Bar and Grill........... 102, 103 Red Geranium........................................108 Riverwalk by Acropolis........................ 131 Salameh Plastic Surgery & Medspa...15 Schnitzelbank and Schnitzelbank Catering................128 Siegel's..........................................................8 Smitty's Italian Steakhouse................118 Snaps.........................................................126 Square Yard Carpet................................ 18 The Village at Holiday Health Care.................................85, 86 Thomason's Barbecue..........................126 Timberlake Furniture.............................74 Tin Fish Newburgh................................128 Tools 4 Teaching...............................79, 80 Town of Ferdinand....................................4 Townsquare Media................................141 Tucker Publishing Group........17, 46, 65, 82, 93, 134, 136 Turoni's..................................................... 127 Twisted Tomato Pizza Co...................129 Uniqu-E-Scapes.......................................... 3 Walther's Golf & Fun Center...............79 Walton's Smokehouse and Southern Kitchen...............................................116 WAY FM.................................................... 142 WEVV-44.................................................. 142 Winzerwald Winery.............................. 131 WNIN...................................................88-92 Woodward Commercial Realty, Inc........................................... 14 Yak & Yeti.................................................129 Yellow Tavern...........................................111 YMCA of Southwestern Indiana..77, 78 Zesto Riverside....................................... 131 Zuki.............................................................112

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MOVING MEMORIES

Meyer family reunion links royal past with Boonville residents

uring a break from the oppressive heat of mid-June, more than 100 members of the Meyer family gathered under the shade of a shelter at Boonville’s City Lake Park. As heaping helpings of homemade food were ladled onto plates, relatives hugged, laughed, and reminisced. And at the center of the group was an 86-year-old woman in a pale yellow dress, beaming with pride at photos of ancestors looking over new generations of Meyers. Barbara Brown Meyer was a writer by trade, working for regional newspapers and publishing four books of her own. Long retired, she has poured her energy into chronicling the Meyer family’s roots from Germany to Indiana, gifting her loved ones a touching biography of their past. The family traces its lineage to Karl Ludwig Meyer, descendant of the House of Hohenzollern, a German dynastic family whose ancestral seat is the stunning 18th century castle of the same name. Meyer met his blue-blooded match in Catharina Bernasco, a countess of Spanish origin from Trier, a city near Germany’s southwestern border with Luxembourg. Catharina and Karl Ludwig had two sons; Ludwig later remarried and had four more sons, who moved in the mid-1800s to the U.S. and opened a butcher shop and market in Boonville. Granddaughter Agnes Meyer was born in Warrick County in 1889 and married Albert C. Derr in 1910. The Derrs, of course, began bottling soft drinks in the late 1880s, making Agnes the member of a second prominent family. A brother, Carl “Buddy” Meyer, ran the X-Market in Boonville’s Meyer Center. Barbara’s late first husband, Carl Otto “Dutch” Meyer, was Buddy’s son. Barbara has organized the Meyer family reunions for years. After a pause due to the pandemic, she and her children orchestrated the 2022 gathering. Although a joyful event, she concedes it takes a lot of time, money, and energy to bring it all together. The family’s lineage alone took up 30 posters, which Barbara created herself. “It’s hard to remember all the names and dates. Everyone who I can ask is gone,” she says. This year’s reunion was Barbara’s last to organize, a bittersweet cap on a life of dutiful work. “I feel like God gave me a calling and a talent, and I’ve tried to use it,” Barbara says. “I want to leave something significant behind, and I’ve done that.”

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Carl Otto "Dutch" Meyer

Barbara Brown Meyer Catharina Bernasco Meyer

James H. Meyer with Ben Franklin Family Center and IGA representatives in July 1965

Agnes and Albert Derr

ENDURING LEGACY Years of dedicated genealogical work by members of the Meyer family has traced their history back to 1800s Germany and European nobility. Recording these links is, among others, Barbara Brown Meyer, who in June coordinated the family’s first reunion in 20 years. P H OTO O F B A R B A R A B R OW N M E Y E R BY J O D I K E E N . X- M A R K E T P H OTO F R O M N E W S PA P E R S .CO M . A L L OT H E R P H OTO S P R OV I D E D BY B A R B A R A B R OW N M E Y E R .

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