Growing up in the small town of Corbin (population 30, not including dogs, chickens and horses), my little brother never quite ran out of things to do. He would ride bikes with his siblings, play cops and robbers, and (with me) build a makeshift fort on the side of the hill, called Ape City from “Planet of the Apes.”
When Curt got an 8mm video camera, his attention turned to movie making — at first, with stop-action versions of “King Kong” and “Star Wars.” Then bigger video cameras came about, and his ambitions expanded accordingly: he tried making a space movie with his friends involving the crash of a UFO and aliens wandering around Corbin. That project ended abruptly when the hillside, the site of the crash, caught fire. (Quick action from our older brother Dan prevented a bigger calamity.)
Curt next tried his hand at drawing characters and celebrities, which won him a few blue ribbons from local fairs and exhibits. But his real passion was photography. Self-taught, he started taking graduation pictures of family and friends, anniversary and wedding photos, baby pictures, even self-portraits.
