Events

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.