Events

The Horry County Museum will host a free program by local quilter Joanne Shropshire on Tuesday, March 3rd at 1 pm. Join us to learn how to create ‘second helping quilts’. Rather than wasting scraps, Joanne will show how she uses her leftover materials from one project to create an entirely new quilt.
Joanne was given a needle and thread at an early age to make her own Barbie clothes. At the age of nine, she learned to use her sewing machine and made her first dress, and so began her love of all things fabric! She received a degree in Fashion Technology and started working as a pattern designer for a women’s sportswear company. After a few years, she started her own business doing custom clothing and alterations.
Joanne is an active member of the Coastal Carolina Quilters, the Cobblestone Quilt Guild and AQS. She teachers quilting at a number of places, some in shops and others at large retreats.
The program will begin at 1:00 pm in the Museum Classroom, located at 805 Main Street, Conway SC. This event is free and open to the public. For more information, call 843-915-5320 or email hcgmuseum@horrycounty.org. To view a full list of programs, visit our website at www.horrycountymuseum.org.

The 2020 Horry County Museum Documentary Film Series continues with Pirates of the Carolinas. Part of the Carolina Stories Series by SCETV, this hour long film digs up the true tales of treachery and villainy that occurred off the coasts of North and South Carolina during the Golden Age of Piracy
The film is free to the public and will be shown at 1:00 PM, Wednesday, March 4th, at the Horry County Museum, located at 805 Main Street in Conway.
The Horry County Museum Documentary Film Matinees will continue throughout 2020. For a full list of films, visit our website at www.horrycountymuseum.org. For more information, call the Horry County Museum at 843-915-5320 or e-mail hcgmuseum@horrycounty.org.

Experience life on the family farm in Horry County from 1900-1955 at the L.W. Paul Living History Farm. Join us on March 5th from 11:00 AM until 1:00 PM to learn about traditional foods on the family farm. Fried shad were a common dish for many farm families during cold winter months. Families would also can the fish to be used later on for making patties or stew. Join us for this month’s cooking demonstration to see shad being canned using a pressure canning pot.
The L.W. Paul Living History Farm is open Tuesday-Saturday 9 AM-4 PM and teaches the history of the Horry County farm family. The farm is free and open to the public and is located at the corner of Hwy 701 North and Harris Short Cut Road in Conway, SC. For more information, call the L.W. Paul Living History Farm at 843-915-5321 or email hcgmuseum@horrycounty.org. For a full list of programs and events at the Horry County Museum and L.W. Paul Living History Farm, visit www.horrycountymuseum.org.

The Horry County Museum and the L.W. Paul Living History Farm will host two ‘Mini Trunk Shows’ by local quilter Jerre Reese. Join us to view just a few of her miniature quilts and learn how she makes them. Jerre’s talk will be held at the Horry County Museum (805 Main Street, Conway, SC) on Thursday, March 5th at 1 pm and at the L.W. Paul Living History Farm, (2279 Harris Short Cut Road, Conway, SC) Thursday, March 19th at 1 pm.

For those with questions about an antique quilt in their personal collection, Jerre will be available after each program, starting at 2:30 pm, to give an approximate date and pattern name of the quilt, and offer tips on caring for and storing, or displaying, it. 

The Horry County Museum and South Carolina Humanities present a program by “The Gullah Lady”, Sharon Cooper-Murray, on Friday, March 6th, on the history of rag quilting in the Gullah community.

This entertaining and educational program explores the history of rag quilting, a tradition dating to the antebellum period, when feed and grain sacks were combined with rag strips to make unique quilts. Traditionally passed from generation to generation, Cooper-Murray was taught the process by Gullah women from Wadmalaw and Johns Island. She has since set out on a mission to preserve this disappearing art form.

Sharon Cooper-Murray is a native of South Carolina raised in Florence County. After attending college in Tennessee, she returned to South Carolina and has resided Charleston County, South Carolina. When she arrived on Wadmalaw Island, SC, it was the first time she heard the Gullah language, and she was fascinated by the tone and rhythm of this Creole language. That was the beginning of what has become her life-long passion: the Gullah culture, their stories, folk music, crafts, food ways, religious folkways … their way of life. She has traveled throughout the east coast of the United States as an advocate of the preservation, conservation and development of the culture through workshops, lectures, storytelling, special events and artist in residency programs.

Experience life on the family farm in Horry County from 1900-1955 at the L.W. Paul Living History Farm. Join us on March 7th from 9:30 AM until 10:30 AM for Farm Harvest Day to participate in the picking, gathering, and preparing of crops on the farm.
Green onions are one of the first vegetables that can be harvested in Horry County. Visitors are invited to join staff in the farm garden to see the onions growing and learn about how the growth at the top of the plant would be used as soon as it was available.
The L. W. Paul Living History Farm is open Tuesday-Saturday 9 AM-4 PM and teaches the history of the Horry County farm family. The farm is free and open to the public and is located at the corner of Hwy 701 North and Harris Short Cut Road in Conway, SC. For more information, call the L. W. Paul Living History Farm at 843-915-5321 or email hcgmuseum@horrycounty.org. For a full list of programs and events at the Horry County Museum and L.W. Paul Living History Farm, visit www.horrycountymuseum.org.

The L.W. Paul Living History Farm will host a free hands-on workshop on indigo dyeing on Tuesday, March 10th at 10 AM. Join Kimberly Washburn, Curator of Education at the Florence County Museum, to explore Indigofera Suffruticosa, the variety of indigo grown in colonial South Carolina. 

Art, Science and History meet in this hands-on exploration of natural indigo. Participants will explore the importance of the indigo plant to South Carolina’s early agricultural economy, learn the science behind this unique dye plant, and learn pattern-making techniques to create an original work of textile art using indigo dye. Each participant will design and dye one cotton flour sack towel.

The 2020 Horry County Museum Documentary Film Series continues with The Baruchs of Hobcaw, part of the Carolina Stories Series by SCETV. In 1718, 17,500 acres of pristine land in Georgetown County became a colonial land grant, or barony, from the King of England to one of the Lords Proprietors. The Native Americans called it “hobcaw,” meaning between the waters. Purchased by Bernard Baruch in 1905, Hobcaw Barony eventually passed into the hands of Baruch’s daughter, Belle, who created a foundation to protect it from development. This film tells the story of the Baruchs and Hobcaw Barony, which is today home to USC’s Baruch Marine Field Laboratory and Clemson’s Belle W. Baruch Institute of Coastal Ecology and Forest Science.
The film is free to the public and will be shown at 1:00 PM, Wednesday, March 11th, at the Horry County Museum, located at 805 Main Street in Conway.
The Horry County Museum Documentary Film Matinees will continue throughout 2020. For a full list of films, visit our website at www.horrycountymuseum.org. For more information, call the Horry County Museum at 843-915-5320 or e-mail hcgmuseum@horrycounty.org.

The Horry County Museum will host a free program by local quilter Sandy Jacobs on Wednesday, March 11th on redwork in quilting. Redwork is a form of American embroidery, also called art needlework that developed in the 19th century and was particularly popular between 1855 and 1925. Redwork designs are composed of simple stitches and were mainly used to decorate household objects in the 19th and 20th centuries, especially quilts.
Sandy Jacobs’ first quilt was a huge t-shirt quilt made from her daughter’s sorority shirts. She made a few more on her own before she decided to begin taking classes. Jacobs began with traditional piecing and enjoys the challenge of making everything fit properly. She has been teaching beginning quilting and other classes for the last few years at local quilt shops and also for guilds.

Join us on March 12th at 1 for a program on antique quilts from Horry County as staff shares examples of historic quilts from the Horry County Museum’s textile collection. Admission is free. The program will begin at 1 PM in the McCown Auditorium, located at 805 Main Street, Conway SC. This […]

The Horry County Museum will host a free program by local quilter Judy Lilly on Saturday, March 14th at 10:30 AM. Join us as Judy shares techniques for landscape quilting.
Judy Lilly has been a certified quilting instructor since 1995. She earned her certification from the National Quilting Association and has taught hundreds of students over the past 20+ years. Lilly was born and raised in Southern West Virginia. She learned the art of quilting from her mother and fell in love with quilts at an early age. Her first quilt top was a home economics project when she was 16 and she hasn’t stopped since.

The public is invited to view a special Quilts of Valor presentation at the Horry County Museum. Quilts made especially for thirty local veterans will be presented on Saturday, March 14th in the Museum’s auditorium at 1:00 pm at 805 Main Street, Conway, SC 29526.

The mission of the Quilts of Valor Foundation (QOVF) is to cover all service members and veterans, touched by war, with a comforting and healing quilt. In 2003, Catherine Roberts, the founder of the QOVF, had a son deployed to Iraq. She struggled with how to stay busy and keep her mind busy while he was in harm’s way. One night, she had a dream where she saw a man sitting on the side of a bed, shaking. In her dream, a quilt was placed around his shoulders and he seemed to be comforted. As a nurse and quilter, Roberts then decided she would make and send quilts to Kandahar. Each stretcher that had a wounded veteran got a red, white and blue quilt placed on their stretcher. After six years, the foundation decided to award a quilt to any veteran who served during wartime era, from WWII to present. Since 2003, the foundation, now a national organization, has awarded over 216,000 quilts.

“Repair, reuse, make do, and don’t throw anything away” was a common motto during the Great Depression. This way of thinking applied to many aspects of life, including the creation and use of textiles. Join us on Tuesday, March 17th at 1 pm as we discuss how feed and flour sacks were reused to make a variety of items around the house, including quilts, clothing and more.

The program will be held at the L.W. Paul Living History Farm, located at 2279 Harris Short Cut Road, Conway SC. This program is free and open to the public, seating will be available. For more information, call 843-915-5320 or email hcgmuseum@horrycounty.org. To view a full list of programs and events at the Museum, visit www.horrycountymuseum.org.

The 2020 Horry County Museum Documentary Film Series continues with This is Brookgreen Gardens. Part of the Carolina Stories Series by SCETV, this film explores Brookgreen Gardens, one of South Carolina’s most beloved landmarks, located in Murrells Inlet, near Myrtle Beach. History, nature and art come together in a program that is both beautiful and informative, revealing Brookgreen’s enduring importance to the Palmetto state. A distinctive collection of American figurative sculpture, education programs for all ages, dazzling gardens, rare natural habitats, a long and fascinating history—are the things that make Brookgreen Gardens such a unique treasure, nestled between the Waccamaw River and the sea.

The film is free to the public and will be shown at 1:00 PM, Wednesday, March 18th, at the Horry County Museum, located at 805 Main Street in Conway.

Throughout the month of March, the Horry County Museum and L.W. Paul Living History Farm will host a variety of textile themed programs in celebration of our 26th Annual Quilt Gala.

The public is invited to join us on March 18th at 1 pm at the Living History Farm for a program by J.R. Fennell and Trish Shandor of the Lexington County Museum. This presentation will focus on the quilts and decorative arts of Dutch Fork and Lexington County. Visitors will learn about the German and Swiss German influences in quilts found in Lexington County and will also have the opportunity to view some of the quilts from the Lexington County Museum’s collections. Admission is free.  

The Horry County Museum will host a free program by local quilter Pat Sprecher on Friday, March 20th at 1 pm on creating Scrappy Quilts. Join us to view different examples of scrappy quilts and learn about the many types of patterns that can be used!

Pat took a class several years ago on scrappy quilts by Augusta Cole and fell in love with her patterns. She has made several of her scrappy curved log cabins, snappy scrappy stars and snappy square quilts. While Pat has kept a few for herself, she mainly uses these patterns to use scraps for her charity sewing, which she feels is a perfect way to not only use up scraps, but provide for those in need.

The Horry County Museum will host a free program by JoAnn Zeise on Saturday, March 21st at 1 PM. Join us as JoAnn uses images to show some of the finest examples of quilts in the South Carolina State Museum’s collections. The quilts and bedding go back over 200 years and are from all over the state. JoAnn will also discuss patterns, design, history, and culture through those bed pieces. There are also some exciting new acquisitions to be shared!

JoAnn Zeise is the curator of Cultural History at the South Carolina State Museum. She graduated from the University of South Carolina with a degree in Public History. She has been at the State Museum for almost 7 years and was at McKissick Museum at the University of South Carolina before that. Originally from Pennsylvania, she lives in the Dutch Fork area of Columbia and has been in the midlands for 20 years.

The Horry County Museum will host a free program by quilter Kathleen Stuart on March 24th on Wholecloth Quilts. When it comes to “traditional” quilts, Kathy prefers to make wholecloth quilts using the traditional medallion style, however, she likes to use luxe fabrics such as silk dupioni or sateen and often incorporates machine embroidery. Kathy also likes to use fabric paints on her wholecloth quilts and Swarovski crystals.

Originally from Regina, Saskatchewan, Kathy now lives in North Carolina so that she can enjoy the warmer weather. She has been interested in every aspect of fiber since the age of four, having tried almost every technique including knitting, crochet, needlepoint, tatting, macramé and quilting, although she didn’t begin to quilt until 2001. 

The 2020 Horry County Museum Documentary Film Series continues with They Were Here: Ice Age Humans in South Carolina. Part of the Carolina Stories Series by SCETV, this 30 minute film tells the story of a time when our climate was cooler and the plants and animals were much different than today. A time when great ice sheets covered the northern areas of what was to become the United States. A time when early humans were coming to chert quarries in what is now Allendale County, South Carolina. This documentary covers the careful study and analysis of artifacts leading to evidence of a time when people inhabited South Carolina 15,000-20,000 years ago.
The film is free to the public and will be shown at 1:00 PM, Wednesday, March 25th, at the Horry County Museum, located at 805 Main Street in Conway.
The Horry County Museum Documentary Film Matinees will continue throughout 2020. For a full list of films, visit our website at www.horrycountymuseum.org. For more information, call the Horry County Museum at 843-915-5320 or e-mail hcgmuseum@horrycounty.org.

Join us on March 26th at 1 for a program on antique quilts from Horry County as staff shares examples of historic quilts from the Horry County Museum’s textile collection. Admission is free.
The program will begin at 1 PM in the McCown Auditorium, located at 805 Main Street, Conway SC. This event is free and open to the public. For more information, call 843-915-5320 or email hcgmuseum@horrycounty.org. To view a full list of programs, visit our website at www.horrycountymuseum.org. For a full list of programs and events at the Horry County Museum and L.W. Paul Living History Farm, visit www.horrycountymuseum.org.

Experience life on the family farm in Horry County from 1900-1955 at the L.W. Paul Living History Farm. Join us on March 28th from 9:00 AM until 10:30 AM to learn about the different animals on the farm and their various roles. Visitors can help feed the animals from 9-9:30 by shelling corn and using it to feed the chickens.

In this month’s demonstration, staff will discuss the feeding and care of chickens and how important they were to farmers in Horry County. Visitors will also learn about different breeds of chickens and which ones were chosen for their egg or meat production.