Grab a bite to eat, have a seat at SPARK and settle in for lunch with Ed Fujawa to listen and discuss The Doctor and the Canals: Dr. Isaac Coe and the Bankrupting of Indiana

Ed Fujawa is an attorney with the Indiana Department of Insurance and in his spare time, an Indianapolis historian. His authors a blog dedicated to the history of the Circle City, www.class900indy.com His first history book about the city, Vanished Indianapolis, explores the history of lost sites across the city. When he is not researching local history, Ed enjoys being a subpar fisherman and going kayaking on the White River and Fall Creek.

This series is in partnership with Indiana Humanities.

Indiana Humanities is a statewide nonprofit that infuses the humanities into our daily lives. We do this by providing grants, convening discussions, uplifting humanities scholars, spotlighting humanities organizations and activities, and creating our own programs that help Hoosiers think, read and talk.

SPARK is a partnership with Downtown Indy, the City of Indianapolis, and the Indiana War Memorials Commission — and funded by the Capital Improvements Board. It is a continuation of our work last year and in 2015 on the Circle. Check our website for more.

At Big Car, we approach our work at the Circle as a site- and community-specific socially engaged art and creative placemaking project. The SPARK on the Circle pop-up park was collaboratively designed with Indianapolis-based Merritt Chase to be a restorative public place where people of all walks of life can relax, play, socialize, and engage with art and artists in the heart of our city.