"100 Years, 500 Miles"

The year 2011 was the 100th anniversary of the first Indianapolis 500 Mile Race, and so The Indianapolis Star decided to publish a commemorative book. I was chosen to manage the project because I had done two previous books for the paper. The first had been "Indianapolis: Through Our Eyes," published in 2003 to mark the centennial of The Star. The second, in 2007, was "Super Colts," a sports championship book the year the Indianapolis Colts won the Super Bowl.

For the Indy 500 book, I wrote about a third of the text and selected clippings from microfilm (a photo editor selected the images), and so I am including those pages here below. Click on an image to open the full-size PDF.