‘Grandma’s Hands’

HONESDALE, PA - “Grandma’s Hands,” an oral history documentary featuring the life of 89-year-old Edna Dunn, will have its Honesdale premiere at 5:00 p.m. on Saturday, December 12, in the Community Room of the Wayne County Visitors Center, 32 Commercial Street. The public screening will be followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers. The screening is free, but donations will be appreciated.

“Grandma’s Hands” is a personal voyage into a family history with the goal of capturing in time the life and legacy of a grandmother. Dunn takes viewers on a journey through her life in the small town of Honesdale. The journey features aspects of her life from being a premature baby kept in an oven for warmth to raising eight children and now having over 20 grandchildren. Historic locations featured in the film are the Bethel School in Berlin Township and Christ Church in Indian Orchard.

The filmmakers are Edna’s granddaughters, Mariah, Dusty and Lisa Dunn. For their first documentary together, they decided to do a project that is close to them and they are passionate about. Lisa used her degree in history to bring the story alive, while Mariah and Dusty used their backgrounds in video production to document their grandmother’s abundant stories.

For more information, visit sites.google.com/site/grandmashandsdocumentarysite .