Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Sport, History and Heritage: An Investigation into the Public Representation of Sport – Editors' General Introduction
- HISTORY, HERITAGE AND SPORT
- MUSEUMS AND THE REPRESENTATION OF SPORT
- SURVIVALS AND LEGACIES: SPORT, HERITAGE AND IDENTITY
- 12 Survivals and Legacies: Sport, Heritage and Identity
- 13 Anfield: Relocating Liverpool's Spiritual Home
- 14 The Canonisation of Common People: Memorialisation and Commemoration in Football
- 15 Heritage, Culture and Identity: The Case of Gaelic Games
- 16 Olympic Heritage – An International Legacy: The Invention of the Modern Olympic Stadium from Coubertin to 1948
- 17 The Indianapolis 500: Making the Pilgrimage to the ‘Yard of Bricks’
- Afterword: History and Heritage in Sport
- List of Contributors
- Index
- HERITAGE MATTERS
17 - The Indianapolis 500: Making the Pilgrimage to the ‘Yard of Bricks’
from SURVIVALS AND LEGACIES: SPORT, HERITAGE AND IDENTITY
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 April 2013
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Sport, History and Heritage: An Investigation into the Public Representation of Sport – Editors' General Introduction
- HISTORY, HERITAGE AND SPORT
- MUSEUMS AND THE REPRESENTATION OF SPORT
- SURVIVALS AND LEGACIES: SPORT, HERITAGE AND IDENTITY
- 12 Survivals and Legacies: Sport, Heritage and Identity
- 13 Anfield: Relocating Liverpool's Spiritual Home
- 14 The Canonisation of Common People: Memorialisation and Commemoration in Football
- 15 Heritage, Culture and Identity: The Case of Gaelic Games
- 16 Olympic Heritage – An International Legacy: The Invention of the Modern Olympic Stadium from Coubertin to 1948
- 17 The Indianapolis 500: Making the Pilgrimage to the ‘Yard of Bricks’
- Afterword: History and Heritage in Sport
- List of Contributors
- Index
- HERITAGE MATTERS
Summary
Back Home again in Indiana
And it seems that I can see
The gleaming candleight
Still shining bright
Thru Sycamores for me
(MacDonald and Hanley 1917)I married an engineer. As someone who read books like Germaine Greer's The Female Eunuch (1970) while waiting for the school bus, it is perhaps a miracle that I married at all; but who could resist the charm of a first date to the Sutton Cheney Steam and Country Fair in rural Leicestershire? The honeymoon was four days in York. This included a full day in the National Railway Museum. On the way back we stopped off, mercifully only for the afternoon, at the Crich National Tramway Museum. Calling at a supermarket before getting home, I asked my husband to get whatever he fancied, meaning quite clearly for the evening meal. He returned with a £40 trolley-jack for the car and asked what was for supper. We survived a decade together thus, occasionally attending slightly more glamorous European events, such as the British Grand Prix and the Le Mans 24 Hours. I had by now discovered that part of Simon's agenda for our combined ‘bucket-list’ (of things to be accomplished before we die) was a visit to the Indianapolis circuit for the 500-mile event. So we went to the self-styled ‘motor-racing capital of the world’ for our tenth wedding anniversary in May 1996.
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- Sport, History, and HeritageStudies in Public Representation, pp. 247 - 262Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2012