INDIANAPOLIS — History is happening on Pearl Street. Yes, Pearl Street is really just an alley. What, you think the path into history should be beautiful?
Not this path.
Turn onto the alley and keep walking under the fire escape snaking down from that big red brick building. Keep walking until you can turn left.
Now look up.
There you go. There’s your beauty, high up on the wall of a law office building.
Once upon a time, before he died penniless in a Chicago hospital charity ward, before he was given a pauper’s burial, Major Taylor was the fastest man alive. That’s what people called him, because it was true. He was from