The Home Road-film screening

THE HOME ROAD – DOCUMENTARY FILM by Maine filmmaker Tonya Shevenall.

In 1845, 19-year-old Israel Shevenell left his home in Canada and walked nearly 200 miles to Biddeford, Maine. He found work and built a new life in an American boomtown being 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 tells their stories in her first feature documentary film, an exploration of family, history and identity – and now a journey into the unexpected inevitably leads to…home.

Tonya and Ray Shevenell will be at the screening and lead a discussion and Q&A following the movie.