I’m back with another edition of the “How I Made It” series for paid subscribers, with behind the scenes stories for you on the making of the latest Photowalks episode, this week, from Evansville, Indiana.
I was born in the “River City,” eons ago, but know very little about it, as my parents packed up and left after 3 months, as my father accepted a new job in Binghamton, NY.
I can tell you that it’s in Southern Indiana, right on the border of the state with Kentucky and so close that locals call it Kentuckiana. And I’ve since learned that about a million people live in the area, once you factor in Evansville, Kentucky and nearby Illinois. The population of Evansville itself is just over 100,000 and has been flat or declining for years.
The pictures of our life back then are few—nothing from the house we lived in, me playing in the yard, or even young Jeff with his parents at the hospital. So how do you get an episode made that weaves some of that personal history in without images?
