Owensboro Ky Is a great place to go

The City

My home town is about 45 minutes away depending on which way you take to get there, I have lived in Owensboro, Kentucky all of my life until I came to college. Owensboro is smaller than Evansville but is also considered the 3^rd largest city in terms of population in the state. Also is the industrial and cultural capital of Western Kentucky. While it is this big it is still “small town Quality” and a very friendly place to live. It is originally known for as "Yellowbanks" in reference to the color of the soil along the Ohio River banks, it was first settled in 1797. By 1810, David Morton had opened a general store and population of the settlement grew to 100 by 1815. An 1817 Act of the Kentucky Legislature incorporated the town as "Owensborough", later shortened to "Owensboro".

Location

Owensboro is the county seat of Daviess County, Kentucky, and lies on the southern banks of the Ohio River, one of the nation’s major waterways, in the western Kentucky coal field region. Owensboro is located 32 miles southeast of Evansville, Indiana, 123 miles north of Nashville, Tennessee, and 109 miles southwest of Louisville, Kentucky. The William H. Natcher Bridge is the new bridge that everyone has been waiting for that goes from Owensboro into southern Indiana, provides a direct route to Interstate 64 in Indiana, providing a link from St. Louis to Louisville. The Natcher Bridge opened in October of 2002.]

Communications

The Owensboro Messenger-Inquirer provides daily newspaper service to the residents of Owensboro and the surrounding counties, and sponsors a website at www.messengerinquirer.com. We have nine radio stations in the area. The area is also served by the four Evansville-based television networks (WEHT, WTVW, WFIE, and WEVV). Cable television service is provided by Adelphia Communications.

Research

The Owensboro-Daviess County Library is a new attraction that was just rebuilt onto the main road. There is a collection of over 150,000 books and 13,000 audiovisual items.

Entertainment

There are a total of three huge festivals annually in Owensboro. Each festival is unique and designed for the whole family. The biggest and main event being the International Bar-B-Q Festival. This is hosted during the month of May and is thrown the same weekend as Mother’s Day. It’s located on the Ohio River front and usually goes up and down a few blocks. We have over 150 years of barbecuing experience and boasts of being the Bar-B-Q Capital of the World. The Bar-B-Q Festival is packed with food, music, dance, and more food. This is an amazing event to attend I recommend that everyone attend this.

Located in downtown Owensboro is also Goldie's Best Little Opryhouse offers shows on Friday and Saturday nights year round. The shows offer a blend of old and new country, comedy, bluegrass, gospel, and old time rock and roll music.

If you like walking and love to hear about true ghost stories then there is a tour of the downtown Owensboro that is approximately 1 ½ long. It covers some of Owensboro's favorite ghost stories and sightings. Sights include Trinity Center, home of Theatre Workshop of Owensboro, the Area Museum of Science & History, the Daviess County Courthouse, and others. Tours begin and end at the Executive Inn Rivermont. Usually about 30-50 people attend this on Fridays and Saturdays and the ironic thing about it is that my Uncle is the one who owns the business.

Every year in the third weekend of October there is The Apple Festival which is Located at Reid’s orchard. There are several booths set up with stocks of homemade apple cider and pies, relishes, fruits vegetables, and other seasonal goodies. You can also have a little more fun picking your own fruits and vegetables.

The River park center is bustling Regional Performing Arts and Civic center that hosts more than 1,000 events each year, including professional Broadway tour performances, Owensboro Symphony Orchestra concerts, a summer Bluegrass Music Series, and made-in-Owensboro festivals and different productions. There is also a place to ice skate outside and eat and watch old Christmas stories on a big outside screen TV outside of the center. It’s located on the river front and is called, Winter Wonderland.

The Executive Inn is the biggest hotel in Owensboro where people visiting stay as well as the residents wanting to enjoy a night away from their house. There are always concerts with the new up to date country and rock singers there.

Pubs

For those people that are of the legal age to drink there are about fifteen to twenty different bars, Varying from smaller to bigger ones with grills. These are good places for the young adults to hang out with friends and for the older adults to get away from the kids for a night. One of the favorites that I hear of is the blind Parrot and the Boiler Room.

Education

In Owensboro there are a lot of different schools from Daycare all the way up to College. I went to one of the four high schools in Owensboro. So, there is never a problem with schooling. There is a variation to choose from. My graduating class had 240 students. There is also three different colleges. One is Owensboro Community College which is just a two year program. The other being Brescia University which is kind of like OCC but you can get a BSN there. Finally Kentucky Wesleyans College is very popular; people from around the world come to Owensboro to attend this very expensive private school that is known for sports.

College Life

This semester will be my third semester in college at USI. I love it here the campus is great, professors are well educated, and the on-campus living is extremely nice. Not to mention, my major is nursing and USI has one of the top nursing programs in the state. Being at USI makes me feel comfortable because they offer so many different programs, like academic skills, writing help, career services, financial help, and the list goes on. Also my comfort comes from the fact that my home town is about 45 minutes away so it’s a great feeling to know that I can go home for any kind of emergency. It’s been really easy for me to make friends, especially since I lived in the dorms last year and I live in the on-campus apartments this year. I really haven’t had any trouble with anyone here; it seems to me that everyone is really friendly and for the most part easy going.
I have definitively learned a ton of lessons from being here. For one while I was in high school and of course had strict parents. So, I was always doing homework and not really doing much of anything else. Well, when I went away to college where I had no supervision and no one to tell me what to do I was kind of a little too relaxed. I was always out all hours of the night my freshman year because everyone else was out and I was having way too much fun to miss out on anything. It is really easy to forget about homework and stay up with new people just talking and having fun. Be careful about doing this, it tends to happen a whole lot. I wasn’t really getting much sleep or much homework accomplished. Big mistake, this is how you fail!!!! So my suggestion is to set free time dates rarely that are not going to cut in to a big test the next day. It is very hard to do so but in the same sense you have to remember why you are here. College costs way too much to be blowing off your school work to do things that really aren’t that amazing.
Another thing I found myself doing was Procrastinating on everything. Even if Wasn’t doing anything with my friends or partying I was sitting in my room, eating, being fat and lazy and not even taking the time to study and hour or so. Then what really sucks is when you realize that paper or test that you found out about two weeks ago is due tomorrow and you haven’t started so you start to get really stressed and sometimes just say forget it and give up. It’s like man where does the time go!!
There is sooo much more to find out about college but this year so far has definitely been a good year starting out. So hopefully is stays that way. I have planned certain times to work, study, and spend time with friends. Don’t get me wrong I have procrastinated on a couple things this year but I got myself caught up and have definitely learned a lesson from my first year in college.