Enjoy complimentary popcorn and two Appalachian-based films made by talented filmmaker and Appalachian State graduate, Rebecca Jones, at BRAHM's January Movies at the Museum.

Film #1: Glenn Bolick Saw Mill Man

Family traditions hold strong with Glenn Bolick whose family came from Germany and settled in Western North Carolina in the 1750s. Glenn now lives in his grandfather's house in Bailey's Camp, North Carolina, where he grew up. A fourth-generation sawmill man, he has become known for his storytelling, bluegrass and old-time music, and turning pots in the Seagrove tradition. Glenn and his wife, Lula, have passed on the Seagrove Pottery technique to their daughter Janet Calhoun, and her husband, Mike. Glenn Bolick: Saw Mill Man chronicles the life of this mountain man who has become an active tradition bearer in Caldwell County.

Film #2: Herb Key: Nurturing American Heritage

This short documentary features Herb Key, a master musician, and luthier from North Carolina. Herb grew up in Wilkes County learning about traditional Appalachian music from his family and neighbors in the 1950s. Herb enjoys a do-it-yourself lifestyle making his own tools, building his own beehives, and raising his own fruits and vegetables, many from seeds derived from plants his grandmother grew. For many years he worked as a woodworker and began repairing acoustic instruments in the 1970s. Today, he is known as one of the best guitar repairmen in the region working alongside renowned Virginia luthier, Wayne Henderson. Herb is a keeper of stories and relishes in singing story-songs about Wilkes County legends like Otto Wood and Tom Dooley. Through his music and his revived vintage acoustic guitars, Herb preserves a piece of the American culture.

ABOUT THE FILMMAKER

Rebecca Jones is a documentary filmmaker, banjo, guitar and pedal steel guitar player from Denton, North Carolina. She earned a BS in Communication and an MA in Appalachian Studies from Appalachian State University. She has worked on films such as "After Coal, A Mighty Fine Memory: Stories and Tunes from the Fiddler of Banjo Branch", and "Herb Key: Nurturing American Heritage." Currently, she is working in New Hampshire at Florentine Films as an apprentice editor on the 8-part documentary series titled "Country Music, a film by Ken Burns."

ABOUT MOVIES AT THE MUSEUM

Movies at the Museum features films by North Carolina filmmakers and films about the arts, history, and culture of the Appalachian region. The films feature a guest speaker and are followed by a discussion with opportunities to ask questions and reflect on the films' highlights.

Complimentary popcorn is provided.

MAKE IT A DINNER-AND-A-MOVIE DATE NIGHT!

Partrons are encouraged to enjoy dinner before or after the movie at Bistro Roca. Present your BRAHM movie ticket at Bistro Roca and receive a 10% discount on your meal (offer only valid the day of the film).

Dinner reservations are encouraged.

This event is FREE for members, $5 for nonmembers.

Movies at the Museum is sponsored by Bistro Roca.

Down Home: Jewish Life in NC

“Riveting… sometimes humorous, sometimes poignant.” Charlotte Observer

Jews have been integral to North Carolina’s emergence as a progressive New South society. This richly textured documentary consists of oral histories, interviews with noted historians, rarely seen photographs and engaging re-enactments – that bring to life over 300 years of Jewish North Carolina history.

About the Speaker

Leonard Rogoff has written and lectured extensively on the Jewish South. He has a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina, and has taught at North Carolina Central University. He was a contributing writer for The Spectator and The Independent and editor for The Rambler. His essays have appeared in American Jewish History, Southern Jewish History, The Quiet Voices: Southern Rabbis and Black Civil Rights, Jewish-American History and Culture: An Encyclopedia, Handbook to North Carolina History, and The Companion to Southern Literature. He conceived, researched, and wrote text for the exhibit "Migrations: the Jewish Settlers of Eastern North Carolina" and directed a multimedia project, "Down Home: Jewish Life in North Carolina."

He is the author of Gertrude Weil: Jewish Progressive in the New South (2017), Down Home: Jewish Life in North Carolina (2010) and Homelands: Southern-Jewish Identity in Durham and Chapel Hill (2004).

ABOUT MOVIES AT THE MUSEUM

Movies at the Museum features films by North Carolina filmmakers and films about the arts, history, and culture of the Appalachian region. The films feature a guest speaker and are followed by a discussion with opportunities to ask questions and reflect on the films' highlights.

Complimentary popcorn is provided.

MAKE IT A DINNER-AND-A-MOVIE DATE NIGHT!

Partrons are encouraged to enjoy dinner before or after the movie at Bistro Roca. Present your BRAHM movie ticket at Bistro Roca and receive a 10% discount on your meal (offer only valid the day of the film).

Dinner reservations are encouraged.

This event is FREE for members, $5 for nonmembers.

Movies at the Museum is sponsored by Bistro Roca.

Down Home: Jewish Life in NC

Dulatown is a documentary short about a community in Lenoir, NC established from the land of a slave owner (Alfred Dula) bequeathed to his slave (Harriet) and their eight children. Dulatown remains home to the extended Dula clan and embraces its history at a bi-annual reunion where in recent years both African-American and White Dula relatives come together around their shared genealogy to acknowledge they have more in common than just a surname. Using contemporary interviews with members of the Dula family alongside historical images, this film weaves an insightful tale of history, family, race and identity.

View the trailer for the movie here

About the Speaker

Beth Davison has been a faculty member at Appalachian State University since 1997 and is a Professor in the Departments of Sociology and Cultural, Global & Gender Studies and the Co-Director of University Documentary Film Services. Her documentary projects include The Denim Dynasty, Eva & Moe (screened internationally) and now Dulatown. She works ongoing with many community partners including her work with the National Park Service to produce short documentaries screened at the Blue Ridge Parkway, National Park Service Visitor center in Blowing Rock, NC.

Image credit: Various branches of the Dula family come together at the Dulatown gravesite. COURTESY OF LESLIE DULA MCKESSON.

ABOUT MOVIES AT THE MUSEUM

Movies at the Museum features films by North Carolina filmmakers and films about the arts, history, and culture of the Appalachian region. The films feature a guest speaker and are followed by a discussion with opportunities to ask questions and reflect on the films' highlights.

Complimentary popcorn is provided.

MAKE IT A DINNER-AND-A-MOVIE DATE NIGHT!

Partrons are encouraged to enjoy dinner before or after the movie at Bistro Roca. Present your BRAHM movie ticket at Bistro Roca and receive a 10% discount on your meal (offer only valid the day of the film).

Dinner reservations are encouraged.

This event is FREE for members, $5 for nonmembers.

Movies at the Museum is sponsored by Bistro Roca.

Join us in welcoming award-winning food writer, Sheri Castle who will be inviting us to consider what it means to be a locavore and why this choice matters. To provide context for this conversation, we will be watching and discussing themes from the Lexicon of Food series presented by PBS and created by the Lexicon of Sustainability project. The selected short films encourage us to think about how food can have a sense of place, and why we might care about where exactly the food that we eat comes from. According to Sheri Castle, "The mountain terrain and climate form the history, heart, and soul of Blue Ridge food traditions. It's what distinguishes Appalachian food from Southern food."

About Sheri Castle

Sheri Castle hails from Watauga County but came down off the mountain to go to Carolina and now lives in Fearrington Village. She is a professional writer, recipe developer, cooking teacher, and popular public speaker. She is fueled by mountains, excellent bourbon, farmers’ markets, and searching for the right word. A completely self-taught cook, she started doing recipe development and ghostwriting cookbooks for numerous chefs across the nation. After nearly a decade writing in the voice of others, Castle published her own book, The New Southern Garden, in 2011.

She is recognized industry-wide for her palate, the reliability of her recipes, and for being an eleventh-hour “fixer” for struggling cookbooks and restaurant kitchens. Castle continues to prolifically publish books, recipes, and essays: under her own name, for brands including Southern Living and Le Creuset, and as a ghostwriter. Sheri believes that stories happen only to those who can tell them. Check her out at shericastle.com.

ABOUT MOVIES AT THE MUSEUM

Movies at the Museum features films by North Carolina filmmakers and films about the arts, history, and culture of the Appalachian region. The films feature a guest speaker and are followed by a discussion with opportunities to ask questions and reflect on the films' highlights.

Complimentary popcorn is provided.

MAKE IT A DINNER-AND-A-MOVIE DATE NIGHT!

Partrons are encouraged to enjoy dinner before or after the movie at Bistro Roca. Present your BRAHM movie ticket at Bistro Roca and receive a 10% discount on your meal (offer only valid the day of the film).

Dinner reservations are encouraged.

This event is FREE for members, $5 for nonmembers.

Movies at the Museum is sponsored by Bistro Roca.

The documentary focuses primarily on the Guenther family's sorghum mill located in Overton County in the predominantly-Mennonite community known as Muddy Pond. After moving to Tennessee in the mid-1960s, the Guenther family began growing and harvesting sorghum cane. Since 1981, the male members of the Guenther family have partnered to operate the Muddy Pond Sorghum Mill in Monterey, which is located between Knoxville and Nashville.

Director Fred Sauceman said, "I've kind of followed the family ever since 2004 and kept track of where their product is being used across the country, and I've also admired sorghum makers in general because this is a labor-intensive product. It takes a lot of work to make sorghum syrup. Every time I eat a tablespoon of sorghum, I think of all the work that went into that jar."

About the Speaker

Fred W. Sauceman celebrates the foodways and culture of his native Appalachia through books, magazine articles, newspaper columns, radio, television, and documentary films. His home base is the campus of East Tennessee State University in Johnson City where he is a Senior Writer and Associate Professor of Appalachian Studies and News Director, WETS-FM.

ABOUT MOVIES AT THE MUSEUM

Movies at the Museum features films by North Carolina filmmakers and films about the arts, history, and culture of the Appalachian region. The films feature a guest speaker and are followed by a discussion with opportunities to ask questions and reflect on the films' highlights.

Complimentary popcorn is provided.

MAKE IT A DINNER-AND-A-MOVIE DATE NIGHT!

Partrons are encouraged to enjoy dinner before or after the movie at Bistro Roca. Present your BRAHM movie ticket at Bistro Roca and receive a 10% discount on your meal (offer only valid the day of the film).

Dinner reservations are encouraged.

This event is FREE for members, $5 for nonmembers.

Movies at the Museum is sponsored by Bistro Roca.