Kristen Tucker

Dec 30, 2024 | evansvilleliving.com | Kristen Tucker |John Martin

Happy New Year! Welcome to the year 2025! Keen-eyed readers may have noted they are reading Volume 26, Issue 1 of Evansville Living. You’ll find the volume and issue number on page 5, the table of contents. When Creative Director Laura Mathis flips the calendar on that page, it always gives us pause. Laura has been directing the creative of this magazine since the start.

Mar 8, 2024 | evansvilleliving.com | Kristen Tucker |Maggie Valenti

Where will you be on April 8? That’s the question I asked the guide last year as I toured the famed Yerkes Observatory, the birthplace of modern astrophysics, in Williams Bay, Wisconsin. It was September, and not everyone in the tour group understood the context of my query. Walter Chadick, the director of programs and external affairs at the observatory, replied, “I’m thinking that I’m going to watch in Evansville, Indiana.”“Evansville!” I exclaimed to the group of 20 or so.

Jan 2, 2024 | evansvilleliving.com | Kristen Tucker

They give us those nice bright colorsThey give us the greens of summersMakes you think all the world’s a sunny day, oh yeahI got a Nikon cameraI love to take a photographSo Mama don’t take my Kodachrome away. — “Kodachrome,” from “There Goes Rhymin’ Simon,” Paul Simon (1973)_____In 2015, a technology writer named Benedict Evans predicted that more photographs would be taken that year alone than in the entire history of film photography.

Dec 6, 2023 | evansvilleliving.com | Kristen Tucker

I was a teenager when I first heard the lore and legend of Blacksburg, Virginia. My husband’s cousin Rick was a civil engineering graduate of Virginia Tech University, which calls Blacksburg home, and to me, “Tech” was a mysterious place.

Nov 7, 2023 | evansvilleliving.com | Kristen Tucker |Maggie Valenti

Welcome to the holiday season! Whether you are wondering where the year has gone or are counting the days until your first seasonal party, the holidays are here. This year, the editorial team decided to write about comfort and joy. Tasked with creating a holiday theme for the November/December issue of Evansville Living each year — recall the “12 Doors of Christmas,” “Attitude of Gratitude,” and “Shiny and Bright,” all past themes — we landed on “Comfort and Joy” for this issue.