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They say to keep your friends close and your enemies closer. Philip Gulley’s neighbor Brian is both.

Four months ago, I began training for an Indianapolis Mini Marathon that never happened. But sticking with the workouts became my way of outrunning the pandemic.

When I married into a prominent local family, I assumed it would become just a minor part of my identity. Now that my marriage has ended, I realize I was wrong.

Be my guest.

Meet the band of devoted home bakers who keep the Indiana State Fair in blue-ribbon desserts.

Sugarmann—whose work “engages the automotive industry as a manufacturer of human identity” and has been shown nationally and internationally—interviewed, photographed, and filmed each participant. The result is an oral and visual history of the Indianapolis 500, exhibited at Big Car’s new cultural center, the Tube Factory.

Think nonfiction is boring? Think again.