Events

It’s a new decade and a new makeover for the 26th annual Horry County Museum Quilt Gala to be held this year at the Horry County Museum and the LW Paul Living History Farm March 3rd through the 27th.
The public is invited to vote for their favorite quilts on display at the Museum from March 3rd through the 20th. An awards ceremony for the winning quilts will be held in the Museum’s auditorium on March 21st. In addition to the quilts on display, there will be a variety of programming at the Museum and Farm throughout the month of March. Museum programs include a presentation on Gullah Rag Quilting by the Gullah Lady, Sharon Cooper-Murray on March 6th, a spinning demonstration on March 12th, a Quilts of Valor presentation on March 14th, and a talk on Feedsack Quilts on March 17th. Scheduled programs at the Farm include an indigo dyeing workshop on March 10th, and a discussion on antique quilts on March 18th. More programs are being planned, so be sure to visit the Museum’s website at www.horrycountymuseum.org for a complete list.
Admission is free to both museums and to all programs!
For more information about the 26th Annual Quilt Gala, contact the Horry County Museum at 843-915-5320, e-mail hcgmuseum@horrycounty.org, or visit our website at www.horrycountymuseum.org.

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.