“Horatio’s Drive,” a 2003 movie directed by Ken Burns, will be shown at Movie Night on Friday, Aug. 11 at the Mathews Historical Museum, 200 Main Street.

The move documents America’s first cross-country road trip by automobile in the summer of 1903. It focuses on Dr. Horatio Nelson Jackson, who accepted and won a $50 challenge to drive across the nation in a three-team race, accompanied by friend Sewall K. Crocker and pet pitbull “Bud.”

Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and the movie starts at 7. There is no charge.
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