INDIANAPOLIS — The Franklin Township Historical Society is offering something unusual in honor of Acton Indiana’s only Academy Award-nominated actress: The event will include a trolley ride to a theatre showing one of her films.
In July the Franklin Township Historical Society will sponsor the comedy Ma & Pa Kettle Go to Town, starring Acton-born actress Marjorie Main, at The Historic Artcraft Theatre in Franklin, Indiana. On Saturday July 20, participants will ride to Franklin in a trolley through the back roads of the countryside to have lunch and see the film.
Event tickets include the trolley ride to and from Franklin, film admission, movie popcorn and fountain drink, plus a booklet about Marjorie Main and a copy of “From Indian Trails to Interstates,” a short history of Franklin Township.
Tickets are $32 per person and must be purchased in advance. Due to trolley size, ticket quantities are strictly limited. Tickets can be purchased on the Historical Society’s website at FTHS.org (credit card transactions can be made by clicking the PayPal button). Purchasers will later receive an e-mail with menu options for lunch, which they can order in advance and then purchase when the food is delivered that day.
Any who purchase tickets should be at the Franklin Township Historical Society’s Meeting House at 6510 S. Franklin Road, Indianapolis, at 11:30 a.m. on Saturday, July 20. The trolley will leave approximately ten minutes later.