My World Tuesday....

Evansville, Indiana is a big river town surrounded by small river towns.

The Ohio River is the reason they all exist.....shipping.

To the east of Evansville we have the river town of Newburgh with locks and dams and to the west the town of Mount Vernon. At that point you leave Indiana on the west and cross the Wabash into Illinois.Whether it's barge traffic or pleasure boats or ducks....the water is there.
After years of changing our river front, this is how it looks with a boat launch, amphitheater seating, and a levy with walking path at the top of the horseshoe bend. Evansville is wrapped around this bend in the river.

The levee is a must ever since the devastating 1937 flood. We have levees and flood gates throughout the city.

I walked from the Evansville Museum and Visitor's Center along the levee and past the war memorials and 4 Freedom's monument which I have shown in this post: Riverfront and Ohio St. bridge.. .

I thought this memorial to the wounded, rather than the dead, was interesting. We sometimes forget that many live on with the scars of war.

A city of 135,000+ we have new buildings and high rises.....

....mixed in with the old buildings.

So far the Old Post Office is one of the oldest buildings still saved from the wrecking ball. The old roof is really fancy looking and I love all the details on old buildings.

A close-up of the middle section.

We have a Casino riverboat on the water front. It was controversial when voted in, but has provided a lot of revenue for more important things. At first the boats were required to cruise when the weather permitted it, but that quickly changed and now it is docked all the time. Our boat had a lot of trouble cruising because it was required to stay near Indiana's shore (Kentucky owns the whole river and did not want competition for their horse racing.) The whole thing was pretty crazy and it is better that it doesn't cruise then trying to safely stay so close to shore.

Small sections of river front downtown are still "wild" with trees, rocks, driftwood, weeds.

This was a small tree full of sparrows.

A Greenway path that follows the river and encircles the entire city is in the works in stages and some day we will be able to walk all the way to Angel Mounds in Newburgh......not me....but some really healthy people might do that!

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