Indiana town to hold Stratton-Porter film festival

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Geneva - A northeastern Indiana city where author Gene Stratton-Porter once lived is celebrating her life with a film festival featuring two movies adapted from her novels.

Saturday's film festival will be at the historic Star Theater in Geneva about 40 miles south of Fort Wayne. Tickets are $7.

One of the featured films will be 1934's "A Girl of the Limberlost," an adaptation of the 1909 novel Porter based on her explorations of the once-vast Limberlost Swamp.

The other film will be 1940's "Laddy," although period cartoons will also be screened.

Eight of Porter's 12 novels were eventually made into films. She died in 1924.

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