This is a rental event held at The Jackson Theatre

Presented by the McLeods:

Restoring the Foundations: 250th Celebration of the United States of America

Weekly Educational Series Begins October 6 at the Jackson Theatre Jonesborough, TN — Community members are invited to join “Restoring the Foundations,” a free, privately held educational program celebrating the 250th anniversary of the United States of America. This unique series is designed to equip participants with knowledge of America’s true history and principled foundation, fostering civic-minded citizens who can defend the truth and contribute to cultural renewal.

Classes will be held every Monday from 6:00 to 8:00pm at the Jackson Theatre, 121 W. Main Street Jonesborough, TN 37659, beginning October 6. The program features:

An 8-week “Biblical Citizenship” course (Patriot Academy curriculum)

A holiday break, followed by a 4-week “Rebuilding Liberty” course

Additional sessions and curriculum (including Wall Builders) to be announced in 2026

Culmination in a special July 4th, 2026 celebration of America’s 250th birthday

Open to all – school groups, church groups, book clubs, families, and individuals are welcome. RSVP is appreciated but not required.

This is a FREE, privately held and privately funded program. We welcome everyone interested in learning, discussing, and celebrating our nation’s heritage together.

To RSVP please visit thejacksontheatre.com or for more information, please contact T. McLeod at t@mcleodorganics.com or 704-792-6622. 

Twelve O’ Clock High (1949)

Sponsored by McLeod Organics

Veteran’s Day

A perceptive, psychological drama that deals with the problems of an Air Force commander who must rebuild a bomber group whose shattered morale threatens the effectiveness of daylight bombing raids. Gregory Peck plays the commander, and Dean Jagger won an Oscar for his supporting role. Exciting air combat footage intensifies the deeply moving drama.

Rating Not Rated

Running Time 132 minutes

Clue with trilogy ending (1985)

Wacky Wednesday

Here is the murderously funny movie based on the world-famous Clue board game. Was it Colonel Mustard in the study with a gun? Miss Scarlet in the billiard room with the rope? Or was it Wadsworth the butler? Meet all the notorious suspects and discover all their foul play things. You’ll love their dastardly doings as the bodies and the laughs pile up before your eyes. This version includes all three endings that originally were played separately in theaters.

Starring: Eileen Brennan, Tim Curry, Madeline Kahn, Christopher Lloyd, Michael McKean

Rating PG

Running Time 94 minutes

The Glenn Miller Story (1954)

Classic Series – Pay What You Can

A trombonist becomes the most popular big-band leader of his era before dying during a plane flight in WWII while fronting a military band. Starring James Stewart and June Allison

Rating G

Running Time 115 minutes

Join us on Friday, November 14th at 7pm for Ralph Stanley II & The Clinch Mountain Boys

2025 marks the 79th Anniversary of The Clinch Mountain Boys. We are excited and pleased to carry on the Clinch Mountain style of music. Ralph II began working professionally for his father in the year of 1995 and has carried The Clinch Mountain Boys on since, as well as fronting the first Clinch Mountain Boys group after the passing of his father Ralph Edmond Stanley. 

Grammy Award-winning artist Ralph Stanley II and The Clinch Mountain Boys are currently touring across the country and internationally. They have also been working hard in the studio, releasing a #1 hit, ‘Back to Virginia’.

With eleven #1 singles in his career, R2 is in heavy radio rotation across the country and on Bluegrass Junction, World Wide Bluegrass, iHeart Radio and Sirius XM. 

The band includes Stanley Efaw on fiddle, mandolin, and vocals; Randall Hibbitts on the upright bass and vocals; Curtis Coleman on banjo and vocals; and Ralph Stanley II on the guitar and lead vocals. This band configuration brings a lot of talent, energy, and humor to the stage as they perform old-time favorites, bluegrass hits, and new original material. 

Ralph II has had two Grammy nominations on previous albums he recorded with Rebel Records. In 2002 he earned his first Grammy along with his father Dr. Ralph Stanley for their collaboration with Jim Lauderdale on ‘Lost in the Lonesome Pines.’ Ralph II has proven to be an accomplished songwriter and has 6 solo albums under his belt, along with the highly acclaimed duet album with his father titled ‘Side by Side’. 

Playing more than 100 shows a year, Ralph Stanley II & The Clinch Mountain Boys are an audience favorite at festivals, clubs, arenas, amphitheaters, country fairs, and wherever the blue bus might take ‘em! 

Jeremiah Johnson (1972)

Western Series

Remembering Redford

A Rocky Mountain trapper assimilates with Native Americans in the 1820s but becomes a legendary Indian killer after the Crow tribe kills his family in retaliation for leading the U.S. cavalry on a rescue mission through a sacred burial site. Starring Robert Redford

Rating G

Running Time 107 minutes

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)

Pizza Party starts at 6pm

35th anniversary of TNT – Cowabunga!

The mean, green fighting machines make their pizza loving big-screen debut in this live-action blockbuster family smash.

Rating PG

Running Time 93 minutes

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (2023)

Pizza Party starts at 2pm

Raphael, Leonardo, Donatello, and Michelangelo are four turtle brothers with a unique set of skills and a penchant for mischief, which runs them afoul of New York City. Yet when a horde of sinister mutants begins to wreak havoc, the city must learn to rely on the turtles if they are to be saved.

Rating PG

Running Time 99 minutes

The Way We Were (1973)

Remembering Redford

A tumultuous relationship between an effusive woman radical and a reticent, conservative man begins on a college campus in 1937 and struggles to remain intact throughout the coming decades. Oscars went to the title song and Marvin Hamlisch’s score.

Starring: Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford

Rating PG

Running Time 118 minutes

Barefoot in the Park (1967)

Wacky Wednesday

Remembering Redford

A delightful Broadway farce about young marrieds in a hopeless Greenwich Village flat.

Starring: Robert Redford and Jane Fonda

Rating G

Running Time 104 minutes

The Natural (1984)

80’s classics

Remembering Redford

A middle-aged rookie takes the baseball world by storm with his self-made bat. He just might be able to use to his legendary talent to help the fictional New York Knights win the pennant. Adaptation of Bernard Malamud’s 1952 novel.

Starring: Robert Redford, Robert Duvall, Wilford Brimley, Glenn Close, Kim Basinger

Rating PG

Running Time 138 minutes

Three Days of the Condor (1975)

Remembering Redford

A CIA researcher finds seven of his colleagues murdered and goes on the run. Not knowing who to trust, he must outrun and outwit the people responsible.

Starring: Robert Redford, Faye Dunaway, Cliff Robertson, Max von Sydow, John Houseman

Rating R

Running Time 120 minutes

The Candidate (1972)

Remembering Redford

An idealistic young lawyer is groomed to defeat a popular Republican senator, but as the underdog’s chances improve, his truth-telling style becomes more and more managed. Jeremy Larner’s script won an Oscar.

Starring: Robert Redford, Peter Boyle, Melvyn Douglas, Allen Garfield, Don Porter

Rating PG

Running Time 109 minutes

All the President’s Men (1976)

Remembering Redford

Academy Award winners Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman star in this true story as Washington Post reporters Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, whose investigation of a seemingly minor hotel room break-in uncovers the greatest political scandal in United States history and leads to the downfall of President Richard Nixon.

Rating PG

Running Time 138 minutes

Toy Story (1995)

Pizza Planet Party

Pixar Animation Studios for Walt Disney Pictures hit celebrating 30 years!

Computer-animated tale centering on the rivalry between two children’s toys: Woody, a cowboy doll who’s the leader and the brains of the group, and a cocky spaceman named Buzz Lightyear. But the two learn to band together when they’re faced with the bratty kid from next door, who just loves to make mincemeat out of toys.

Starring: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen and Don Rickles

Rating G

Running Time 81 minutes

Double Feature Toy Story Pizza Planet Party- Fun starts at 1pm

Toy Story 2 (1999)

Pizza Planet Party

Buzz and the gang race to save Woody after he’s kidnapped by a greedy toy collector who’s intent on making a lucrative online sale.

Starring: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack, Kelsey Grammer, Don Rickles

Rating G

Running Time 82 minutes

Double Feature Toy Story Pizza Planet Party- Fun starts at 1pm