Free screening of the 2020 Emmy Award winning documentary film, Father Soldier Son. On the same evening, visit the Joe Bonham Project We Are Not Our Wounds art exhibit at the G.B. Stuart History Workshop. Open extended hours that evening.

Location: Cumberland County Historical Society
6 pm: Food & Beverage
6:30 pm: Father Soldier Son film (Todd Hall)
Open extended hours on Dec 6 from 10 am-9 pm: The Joe Bonham Project We Are Not Our Wounds (G.B. Stuart History Workshop)

Father Soldier Son is a 2020 Emmy Award winning documentary film 10 years in the making. Directed and produced by Catrin Einhorn and Leslye Davis, it follows the family of Brian Eisch, a Sergeant First Class in the United States Army, and the effects of his deployment to the War in Afghanistan has on him and his young sons. Wounded in Afghanistan, soldier Brian Eisch reunites with his sons to begin a journey of love, loss, and redemption. This deeply moving portrait of a family called to serve explores the meaning of sacrifice, the need for purpose, and the challenges of being a father, a soldier and a son.

The Joe Bonham Project We Are Not Our Wounds (TM) is currently showing through December 13 at the Cumberland County Historical Society’s G.B. Stuart History Workshop.. This profound and moving exhibit is dedicated to documenting the challenging medical journeys of American service members after experiencing traumatic combat injuries and the terrors of combat. The art depicts, with sobering intensity, the challenges for the soldiers and their families in the wake of being wounded in action. Theirs is an excruciating journey to physically and psychologically heal and forge a new relationship with themselves and the world as whole human beings – not simply as the sum of their wounds. The Joe Bonham Project (c), a consortium of artists primarily from the New York Society of Illustrators, was founded in 2011 by Chief Warrant Officer-2 Michael D. Fay USMC (retired), a former official Marine Corps combat artist.