Tuesday, November 13 at 7:00 pm ~ Join Yarmouth Historical Society at 7:00 pm on Tuesday, November 13 as we welcome filmmakers Tonya Shevenell and Ray Shevenell to our ongoing Lecture Series. The Shevenells will present their recent documentary, The Home Road, and answer audience questions about the background and making of the film.
The Home Road tells the story of 19-year-old Israel Shevenell, who left his home in Canada in 1845 and walked nearly 200 miles to Biddeford, Maine. He found work and built a new life in an American boomtown that was transformed by the Industrial Revolution and is recognized as the city’s first permanent French-Canadian settler and French voter. In 2015, his 74-year-old great-great-grandson, Ray Shevenell, retraced the pioneering journey, walking from Compton, Quebec to Biddeford. Tonya Shevenell writes: “This walk is the foundation for The Home Road documentary film. Layered over this adventure are narrations, interviews, archive photos and film, and stories; exploring the themes of migration, movement and ‘home.’”
The screening and Q&A is free for members of Yarmouth Historical Society and $5 for all others. The lecture series is sponsored by the Leon and Lisa Gorman Fund.
