Don Hansen
Don Hansen (August 20, 1944 – September 5, 2021) was an American professional football linebacker from Evansville, Indiana, who played 11 seasons in the National Football League (NFL). Hansen attended F.J. Reitz High School in Evansville, where he played football for the Panthers. He later attended the University of Illinois, playing linebacker for the Fighting […]
F.J. Reitz High School
Francis Joseph Reitz High School, commonly known as F.J. Reitz High School or simply Reitz, is a public high school located at 350 Dreier Boulevard on Evansville’s West Side. Opened in 1918, Reitz is one of Evansville’s oldest and most recognizable schools and has developed an especially strong identity within the city’s West Side community. […]
Josh Barnett
Josh Barnett is an Evansville, Indiana, entrepreneur, former educator and basketball apparel executive best known as a co-founder of 19nine, a retro college basketball apparel company. He also briefly served on the Evansville Vanderburgh School Corporation (EVSC) Board of School Trustees in 2024. Barnett is an Evansville native and graduate of Reitz High School. He […]
19nine
19nine is a basketball apparel and lifestyle brand with deep roots in Evansville, Indiana, best known for recreating classic college basketball uniforms and producing retro-inspired shorts, shirts, jerseys, hats and other apparel based on memorable teams and eras in basketball history. Founded in 2012, 19nine grew from a small T-shirt operation started by four friends […]
Evansville Otters
The Evansville Otters are a professional baseball team based in Evansville, Indiana, and one of the longest-running sports franchises in the city’s history. Since arriving in Evansville in 1995, the Otters have played their home games at historic Bosse Field, continuing a professional baseball tradition at the ballpark that dates to 1915. The Otters compete […]
Evansville Triplets
The Evansville Triplets were a professional minor league baseball team based in Evansville, Indiana, that competed at the Triple-A level from 1970 through 1984. Playing their home games at historic Bosse Field, the Triplets represented one of the highest points in Evansville’s long baseball history. For 15 seasons, Evansville was home to players standing just […]
Evansville State Hospital
Evansville State Hospital is a state-operated psychiatric hospital located at 3400 Lincoln Avenue on the East Side of Evansville, Indiana. Established in 1890 as the Southern Indiana Hospital for the Insane, the institution has operated for more than 135 years and is one of the oldest continuously operating psychiatric facilities in Indiana. For generations of […]
Wesselman Woods and Wesselman Park
Wesselman Woods Nature Preserve and Wesselman Park form one of Evansville, Indiana’s most distinctive natural and recreational areas. Located along Boeke Road on the city’s east side, the property combines a traditional city park with something far more unusual: an old-growth forest that survived while the city developed around it. Wesselman Woods is recognized as […]
The Monkey Ship at Mesker Park Zoo
For decades, one of Evansville’s strangest attractions looked like something out of a fever dream: A replica of Christopher Columbus’s Santa Maria. Filled with monkeys. Surrounded by a moat. With alligators in the water below. It sounds like an Evansville urban legend. It wasn’t. The Monkey Ship at Mesker Park Zoo was a one-third-scale concrete […]
Mesker Park
Mesker Park is one of Evansville, Indiana’s oldest and most historically significant public recreation areas. Located on the city’s West Side along Mesker Park Drive, the park developed around the turn of the 20th century and eventually became home to two of Evansville’s best-known attractions: Mesker Park Zoo & Botanic Garden and Mesker Amphitheatre. The […]