Events

Book Your Seat For
A LINCOLN HIGHWAY ADVENTURE
TO SOUTH BEND!
On JUNE 18th
Two Ladies Bus Co. is booked for a trip to South Bend on Thursday, June 18, 2009. Noted historian Steve Nagy has volunteered to serve as narrator/interpreter along the route of the Lincoln Highway. Bottled water and snacks will be distributed as you get on the bus.
8 AM: Departs Monroeville (115 Main Street) w/passengers
8:30 AM: stops at The History Center (302 E. Berry) Fort Wayne to pick up passengers. Take 33 out of Fort Wayne and stop at IGA (609 S. Main) in Churubusco to pick up additional passengers.
9:30-10:30 Stop in Goshen: Stop and stretch at The Old Bag Factory in Goshen’s historic bag factory filled with artists and antiques. Photograph the iron through-truss bridge, and shop!
11:30 AM: The final destination will be the Century Center (120 S. St. Joseph St) in South Bend for an afternoon of free activities at the 17th annual Lincoln Highway’s National Conference.
Enjoy lunch, an artists and authors reception, and a Lincoln Highway stamp cancellation.
1:30 Enjoy the afternoon that includes keynote speaker and highway traveler, Rick Sebak, talking about his PBS documentary “A Ride Along The LH”. The Tin Can Tourist complete the afternoon on a history about America’s favorite passtime in the 1920s–auto camping!
4:30 PM The bus departs w/box suppers served on the way home.
Total cost for the day is $50.
Need to get seats reserved by June 11. Tickets and additional information available from Jan Shupert-Arick, Todd Pelfrey or Lois Ternet. Call 260-623-3316 or 623-3017. This trip is a collaborative project of 4 Presidents Corners Historical Society, Monroeville; The History Center, Fort Wayne; ARCH, Fort Wayne; Whitley County Historical Society and the Indiana Lincoln Highway Association. For more LHA National Conference info visit www.indianalincolnhighway.com



























