Item Data
- Collection Title: Corky Culver Collection
- Item Title: Corky visits Barbara Davis, 1994
- ID Number: CC-058
- Date Range: 1994
- Description: Corky visits her close friend Barbara Davis.
- Biographical/Historical Note: Corky first met Barbara Ann Davis (1952-2017) when Barbara lived in Gainesville first worked as a lawyer. In 1979 she moved to North Carolina where she specialized in mediation law. She was Executive Director of The Mediation Center in Asheville, NC, and co-founder, WNC Collaborative Law Group. In 2000 she established a private practice in Collaborative Law and Mediation.
- Genres: Amateur Films
- Places: North Carolina
- 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: 58:34
- 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: Allies
- Creators: Kathleen "Corky" Culver
- Collaborators & Participants: Barbara Davis
- Source Format: Hi 8
- Format: Hi 8
- Viewing Log: Mountain vista. Slow pans. Close-ups of flowers. Cars on road. Front lawn, porch, flowers. More slow pans & zooms. Occasional cuts (blue screen). Woman puts sticks in woodbox. Leaves in water. Hot tub? continued garden pans & zooms. Sheep. Hedge. Views. Farmer's market bins filled with apples. Barbara Davis in plaid shirt. She says something but there's no sound. Bins of apples in the woods.
Picking apples. Tying shoes
20:14 Sound comes on.
Corky gives directions. Barbara has apple in her hand. Corky. "Turn it around. Have a bite."
Barbara: One time I did bite an apple and found half a worm.
Corky; Where was the other half.
Barbara: In my gullet.
Talk about Corky's new herb book. A cure for eating worms. A cure for "whites"?
Barbara: I haven't heard of an ailment called whites but maybe I am one. She starts to sing: "In a garden of mystery, I will walk in the garden where all good things are grown." She's holding two apples. One has a slug on it. She tries to show the slug's face but Corky doesn't get it in focus.
24:41 Barbara juggles apples Barbara sings: Do you love an apple, do you love a pear, do you love a girl with curly brown hair? Oh yes I love her, I'll not deny her, I'll be with her wherever she goes. Throws the apples she was juggling behind her. Do you love an apple? Do you love a pear? Do you loe a laddie with curly brown hair?
Corky puts camera on remote. "It's operating it. " Corky experiments with the zoom. "Goddamit. Well all right we probably don't even want to zoom in. I'm going to just leave it all the way open and... Oh, it's recording all this time!
Barbara throws an apple. Corky comes back into frame and they start to dance. Barbara leads. A waltz? They bow to each other.
Corky out of frame. Barbara polishs an apple. "How is it that apples look like starry nights?"
"Take a bite out of the night." She takes a bite. "That's a good one. Sweet. Take a bite." Corky takes a bite. "Mmmmm. I think Eve did the right thing." A little talk about that.
Barbara: But whoever thought about eating pokeweed. I mean you've got to cook it 6 times."
Corky; One time I was parking by this huge lot near [Long Leaf] & they were cutting all the trees and stuff and there were women out there, I thought they were picking up -- . I said you all going to make a horse stable there? And she said no we're making poke salad. You don't have to cook it that many times if it's early. " They talk more about pokeweed.
Tractor picks up a box of apples.
Corky: That's how they get those things around. Is this thing going? Yes! It is. Barbara decides to pick up more apples.
Corky: I need to take the camera in. It's a little misty and you're not supposed to get it in the dew. Did you know Elaine Strebbing & John Morefield. They bought an apple orchard. Did you ever go there. . . . .[screen dark] Then Corky is at the back of a car. Box of apples labeled World Book, Childcraft." Corky reviews their gathering. Mostly righteously come off the ground....culled and this will become cider. And we found a secret fort, a secret garden under the garden. This is a lot of applesauce and cider. Every tree has its own character. And you will notice how color coordinated everything is today. ...About how Miss Barbara would keep going back with a bucket for more so you find the character of this person here is one who pushes a task till it ends. And this is an apple lover."
Holds apples up to her cheeks. I saw a guy today with apple cheeks like this and I wanted to get a picture of him . . . . Barbara so we found a secret garden inside an apple tree. And it really looks like you're just kind of walking into the tree.
Corky must already be in, Barbara separates branches and walks in. Tells about children's game where they tie apples to a tree, have to hold their arms behind their backs and see if they can eat an apple. She tries. Sits down tells story about little people bed down in the pink heather under the tree and then they wake up and tell their dreamas and their dreams turn into their plans for the day. On gnarly bark. Face in the tree. "I'm in the mood for lunch, simply because you're near me." Sings on.
46:14 Cuts to a house. Barbara and possibly her daughter Laurel making an apple pie
They sing, "Do you love the girl with the curly brown hair" again. Barbara dances with the child. Child puts lattice on the pie. Talk about making cider.
Cutting kernels off corn. Cutting carrots.
Talk about race. Time. CC asks to change the subject. How do you do composting here? Barbara says she doesn't have her composting "together" right now. "Ever since we lost the chickens...." Raccoon got the chickens. Thought of starting a new compost pile when they do their cider.
Likes chickens. Imitates rooster which she's not so fond of.
Corky Well, now what.