In the Shadow of the Interstate

Thousands of Indianapolis residents were uprooted when the state purchased their homes for interstate construction. Mary Brame was one of scores of people who were left to live in the shadow of newly built highways. I-65 and I-70 have legacies of displacing vast swaths of residents in the heart of Indianapolis, but they also left in their wake gutted communities compelled to negotiate a radically transformed streetscape, pollution, and noise from the newly constructed highways. Read the late Paul Mullin’s blog telling Brame’s story.