APG August 19th Ice Cream Social to Feature
Award-Winning Film

The Alhambra Preservation Group and Alhambra Historical Society will cosponsor the fourth annual Summer Ice Cream Social at the Alhambra Historical Society’s Museum at 7 p.m. Aug. 19. The museum is located at 1550 W. Alhambra Road. All are welcome to attend this summer evening event and to enjoy a free scoop of Alhambra’s own Fosselman’s Ice Cream.

The evening’s entertainment will feature a screening of an award-winning documentary film about historic preservation in the heartland of America that has been winning acclaim from coast to coast and around the world.

Courthouse Girls of Farmland is a film about a small Indiana town and seven senior women who get up from their bridge club table to make a bold statement about historic preservation. Upset about plans to destroy the 130-year-old courthouse in their community, the women throw caution to the wind by posing for a fundraising calendar that ignites a firestorm of controversy.

Backed by a local community organization, these 77- to 94-year-old card-playing activists bring national attention to the role of historic preservation in helping small towns to survive by celebrating their unique qualities. In the process, they also demonstrate that the old have beauty and value, whether it is in historic buildings or in the people who have called that community home for nearly a century.

“Like so many other audiences across the country, Courthouse Girls of Farmland will have Alhambrans cheering for the human spirit and inspiring all of us to make a difference in our community,” said Alhambra Preservation Group President Oscar Amaro.

For more information about the Summer Ice Cream Social, phone 626-755-3467.