Events

The 2022 Horry County Museum Documentary Film Series starts out with It’s Grits. What began as a short, 10 minute film about grits turned into a 45 minute documentary that launched the filmmaking career of South Carolinian Stan Woodward. Since its release in 1980, It’s Grits has won multiple awards at film festivals, and appeared nationally on PBS. Featuring interviews beginning with the simple question “Do you eat grits?” this film celebrates one of the South’s favorite foods.
The film is free to the public and will be shown at 1:00 PM, Wednesday, January 5th, at the Horry County Museum, located at 805 Main Street in Conway.
The Horry County Museum Documentary Film Matinees will continue throughout 2022. 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 for free 30 minute Saturday activities at the Farm! Parents can sign children up for a half hour session between 9 AM-11 AM. Group sizes will be limited to help ensure social distancing. On January 8th children will make butter and learn about the importance of the cow on the family farm!
For information about available times and to register, contact Marian Calder at 843-915-7861 or email calder.marian@horrycounty.org. Available sessions are 9, 9:30, 10 or 10:30, please specify which session you would like upon registering.
The L.W. Paul Living History Farm is open Tuesday through Saturday, 9 AM-4 PM and is located at 2279 Harris Short Cut Road, Conway, SC 29526.

The Horry County Museum and the AVX Foundation present a lecture by Kevin Mitchell on his book, Taste the State: South Carolina’s Signature Foods, Recipes, & Their Stories on Saturday, January 8th at 1:00 PM.
In Taste the State, Chef Kevin Mitchell and historian David S. Shields present engaging profiles of eighty-two of the state’s most distinctive ingredients, such as Carolina Gold rice, Sea Island White Flint corn, and the cone-shaped Charleston Wakefield cabbage, and signature dishes, such as shrimp and grits, chicken bog, okra soup, Frogmore stew, and crab rice. These portraits, illustrated with original photographs and historical drawings, provide origin stories and tales of kitchen creativity and agricultural innovation; historical “receipts” and modern recipes, including Chef Mitchell’s distillation of traditions in Hoppin’ John fritters, okra and crab stew, and more.
Because Carolina cookery combines ingredients and cooking techniques of three greatly divergent cultural traditions, there is more than a little novelty and variety in the food. Taste the State celebrates the contributions of Native Americans (hominy grits, squashes, and beans), the Gullah Geechee (field peas, okra, guinea squash, rice, and sorghum), and European settlers (garden vegetables, grains, pigs, and cattle) in the mixture of ingredients and techniques that would become Carolina cooking. Taste the State also explores the specialties of every region—the famous rice and seafood dishes of the Lowcountry; the Pee Dee’s catfish and pinebark stews; the smothered cabbage, pumpkin chips, and mustard-based barbecue of the Dutch Fork and Orangeburg; the red chicken stew of the Midlands; and the chestnuts, chinquapins, and corn bread recipes of mountain Upstate.

The 2022 Horry County Museum Documentary Film Series continues with Men of Honor: Freddie Stowers & Alvin York. This film follows the stories of two Medal of Honor recipients from World War I, Freddie Stowers, and Alvin York. Stowers, a native of South Carolina, was a corporal and squad leader who was […]

Join us on January 22nd between 9 AM and 12 PM at the L.W. Paul Living History Farm to celebrate the pig! Winter was the time of year for curing pork on the farm and a season when the family was dependent on home preserved foods during the cold winter months.
Demonstrations by our staff and volunteers will include the carving and preparation of pork, salting and curing in the smokehouse, cooking headcheese and sausage, making lye soap, cooking on a wood burning stove, and more! The L.W. Paul Living History Farm is located at 2279 Harris Short Cut Road in Conway, South Carolina.
For more information, call 843-915-5321 or email hcgmuseum@horrycounty.org.
To view a full list of events and programs, visit our website at www.horrycountymuseum.org.

Join us on January 29th between 9 AM and 12 PM at the L.W. Paul Living History Farm to celebrate the pig! Winter was the time of year for curing pork on the farm and a season when the family was dependent on home preserved foods during the cold winter months.
Demonstrations by our staff and volunteers will include the carving and preparation of pork, salting and curing in the smokehouse, making lye soap, cooking on a wood burning stove, and more! The L.W. Paul Living History Farm is located at 2279 Harris Short Cut Road in Conway, South Carolina.
For more information, call 843-915-5321 or email hcgmuseum@horrycounty.org.
To view a full list of events and programs, visit our website at www.horrycountymuseum.org.

After the rise of the boll weevil made cotton crops unstable, flue-cured tobacco became the main cash crop of Horry County. This presentation focuses on the impact of the auction system and the ways in which farmers and buyers attempted to push the prices in their favor. Join us on January 29th at 1 pm to learn more about the impact of flue-cured tobacco with Horry County Museum Technical Assistant Abigail Geedy.
Abigail Geedy was born and raised in south-central Pennsylvania and moved to South Carolina for college in 2012. She has both an Anthropology Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree and a Graduate Certificate of Museum Management from the University of South Carolina. She began volunteering in museums in 2011 and worked in curation at the South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology for 5 years before joining the Horry County Museum Staff as the Technical Assistant in 2020.
The program will be held 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.