Corky Culver

Item Data

  • Collection Title: Corky Culver Collection
  • Item Title: Celebration of Life: Cherie McArthur & Cathleen Carter
  • ID Number: CC-017
  • Date Range: 2005
  • Description: Memorial gathering for Cherie McArthur & Cathleen Carter.
  • Biographical/Historical Note: Cherie McArthur and Cathleen Carter ran a local cafe, the Take Me Places, also called the Take Me Away Coffee Shop, frequented and cherished by their local community. They died in a motorcycle accident in 2005. https://baddcentral.com/memorials/cherie-mcarthur-cathleen-carter/ https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/10339459/cherie-ann-mcarthur Tape #1-17 CC-043 & #3-06 sCC-043 are related.
  • Genres: Amateur Films
  • Places: Take Me Places Coffee Shop, Melrose, FL
  • Access & Use: Contact Lesbian Home Movie Project (LHMP) info@lesbianhomemovieproject.org. No re-use without permission. LHMP must contact film donor & participants with regard to any re-use.
  • Color or B&W: Color
  • Related Versions:
  • Running Time: 31:48
  • Rights: Lesbian Home Movie Project (LHMP) shares rights with Corky Culver during Culver's lifetime. Participants also have the right to approve uses of material they appear in during their lifetimes.
  • Sound: Sound
  • Subjects: Lesbians, Motorcycles
  • Creators: Kathleey "Corky" Culver
  • Collaborators & Participants: For further information or if you or friends took part in this memorial, be great if you emailed us at info@lesbianhomemovieproject.org & let us know. We'll share your input if that's okay, or just preserve it.
  • Source Format: Hi 8
  • Format: Hi 8
  • Viewing Log: Traffic sounds. Voices. Corky, "I want the beginning and the end of the tape to be blank....." Memorial display outside Cherie McArthur's coffee shop. Sign, "In Loving Memory Cherie McArthur, Cathleen Carter." Teddy bear. Heart balloon. Petunias. Pansies. Woman brings more flowers and heart balloons. Stuffed white angel. Speaks about Cherie and Cathleen. Inside the coffee shop. Mourners on a couch. Barrista makes a coffee. Corky expresses her condolences to the assembled family. Flowers brought in. 5:10 until 24:31, Camera was placed on a stool. It only recorded lower halves & sound. Mumbled conversations. Large gathering in a park, another memorial for Cherie & Cathleen. Color guard.