My parents divorced when I was three. Money was tight, but my mom sacrificed to shield us from knowing we were poor. One time, she found the funds to take my siblings and me on a day trip to the Mesker Park Zoo in Evansville. I fell in love with the old Vanderburgh County Courthouse that day. It was the first historic courthouse I ever set foot in, and I was blown away! I felt the same when I visited again twenty years later.