Museum Matinee: Born to Rebel, Driven to Excel
2022-03-16 13:00 UTC | Horry County Museum, 805 Main Street, Conway, SC, 29526, United States
The 2022 Horry County Museum Documentary Film Series continues with Born to Rebel, Driven to Excel. Part of the Carolina Stories Series by SCETV, this 30 minute film biography tells the story of South Carolinian, Dr. Benjamin Mays.
Benjamin Mays, from Epworth, South Carolina, saw the racism and forced segregation of life around him and decided to challenge it with education and religion. Against the advice of his father, Mays pursued a formal education and rose to the top of his class, becoming Dean of Religion at Howard University, and later earned a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Chicago. He would become president of Morehouse College in 1940, and his influence on civil rights and education for the next three decades would reach far and wide. He met with Mahatma Gandhi, led Atlanta’s desegregation effort, and convinced Gone with the Wind author Margaret Mitchell to (secretly) sponsor students. He was mentor and spiritual father to Martin Luther King, Jr., who credited him as his inspiration for entering the ministry. King selected Mays to give his eulogy in the event of his death, a task Mays would fulfill. Interviewees include Andrew Young, Hank Aaron, Mays’ great niece Dr. Marshalyn Yeargin-Allsopp, and Dr. Robert Franklin.
The film is free to the public and will be shown at 1:00 PM, Wednesday, March 16th, 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 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.

Featured Quilter: Joan Wobbleton
2022-03-17 13:00 | Horry County Museum, 805 Main Street, Conway, SC, 29526, United States
We’re celebrating textiles throughout March at the Horry County Museum! Join us Thursday, March 17th at 1 PM as local quilter Joan Wobbleton shares about Quilts of Valor and talks about quilts from her personal collection.
Joan Wobbleton is a retired nurse practitioner who began quilting some 60 years ago when she watched her mother in law and her sisters sitting around a large wooden frame in her living room. They spent the day hand quilting and talking. Joan made one hand quilt 36 years ago and that was her last: “I found out a sewing machine was quicker and therefore I’ve made many quilts.” Joan and her husband Jim have been involved in the Quilts of Valor program since 2010 including starting the Myrtle Beach Shorebirds group.
The program will be held at the Horry County Museum, 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.

Judy Lyons: The Many Facets of Fabric Dyeing
2022-03-18 13:00 | Horry County Museum, 805 Main Street, Conway, SC, 29526, United States
We’re celebrating textiles throughout March at the Horry County Museum! Join us Friday, March 18th at 1 PM for a presentation by local textile artist, Judy Lyons. Judy will describe the fascinating world of fabric dyeing and show the audience many techniques to achieve a variety of results. Some techniques include basic dyeing, cross dyeing, resists, shibori, ice dyeing, painting dye, parfait dyeing, and uses for your hand dyed fabric. She will also bring some of her quilts that she made from her dyed fabrics and show examples of printing on dyed fabrics.
Judy Lyons has a degree in Textiles from RIT, School for American Craftsmen. There she learned to weave, spin, and dye anything and everything fiber related. While raising three kids in Maryland, she started her first business, Sunflower Hill Dyers in 1998. Her hand dyed fabrics were sold at quilt shows up and down the East Coast as well as Houston, TX. But life, and three kids playing competitive hockey, got in the way and she had to close the business. She also taught Quilt in a Day and dyeing classes for the county’s continuing education program. In 2015, Lyons and her husband retired to South Carolina and she finally had time to put into her dyeing again. Dyeing for Happy Hour was created and she started with hand dyed clothing. Then, she started fabric dyeing again and has sold her hand dyed fabrics at quilt shows in the area. Lyons has also hosted weekend Dye Camps that teach many facets of dyeing. Her quilt kits are also sold on her Etsy shop under Dyeing for Happy Hour. Lyons also makes art quilts and enjoys fabric printing on gel plates and mixed media pieces.
The program will be held at the Horry County Museum, 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.

Junior Curators at the Horry County Museum
2022-03-19 09:00 - 23:00 | Horry County Museum, 805 Main Street, Conway, SC, 29526, United States
Join us for free 30 minute Saturday activities at the Museum! Parents can sign children up for one of four 30 minute sessions between 9 AM-11 AM. Group sizes will be limited per session to help ensure social distancing. On March 19th, children will decorate posters to be used in a parade for veterans receiving Quilts of Valor quilts.
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.

Quilts of Valor Ceremony
2022-03-19 13:00, 2022-03-26 13:00 | Horry County Museum, 805 Main Street, Conway, SC, 29526, United States
Myrtle Beach Shorebirds Quilts of Valor Presentation, Horry County Museum

Featured Quilter Kathleen Armel
2022-03-22 11:00 | Horry County Museum, 805 Main Street, Conway, SC, 29526, United States
We’re celebrating textiles throughout March at the Horry County Museum! Join us Tuesday, March 22nd at 11 AM as local quilter Kathleen Armel shares quilts from her personal collection. Kathleen has been married for 45 years, and has been piecing and quilting for 44 of those years! Her college roommate, Brenda, introduced her to quilting in October of 1977 when she took Armel to her favorite quilt shop, The Quilt Patch, in Fairfax City, Va.
Kathleen’s quilt journey mirrors all the moves she and her husband made while she was employed by JC Penney, and ending here in Conway, with Belk. Starting in West Virginia, and moving through Indiana/Kentucky, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Maine, Pennsylvania and North Carolina. Armel’s progress in quilting grew with every move, and each quilt made has a story. Kathleen considers herself a traditionalist, as she favors simple blocks and basic colors. At last count, Armel’s home has over 74 quilts in it! Almost every room has a quilt or more.
Kathleen is also one of the founding members of the Conway Quilt Guild, which was started in 2013 by the late Kim Parker of Horry County Parks & Recreation Seniors Program. She is thrilled to see the group grow from 9 members to over 70 these past 9 years and feels that her piecing and quilting has grown even more with the sharing of knowledge this group shares!
The program will be held at the Horry County Museum, 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.

No Matinee
2022-03-23 00:00 | Horry County Museum, 805 Main Street, Conway, SC, 29526, United States

Featured Quilter: Kay Rutherford
2022-03-23 10:00 | Horry County Museum, 805 Main Street, Conway, SC, 29526, United States
We’re celebrating textiles throughout March at the Horry County Museum! Join us Wednesday, March 23rd at 10 AM as local quilter Kay Rutherford shares a variety of rag quilts, long arm, and hand and machine embroidered quilts from her personal collection. She will also feature several quilts hand quilted by her mother.
Kay Rutherford’s quilting history began twenty years ago when the women at the hospital she had retired from were making totes and pillows for cancer patients. Kay decided to join the group. Her first quilt didn’t quite turn out as expected when the person who quilted it used large roses in his quilting. Rutherford was so upset with the quilt that she donated it to Goodwill. Kay then started taking classes at a quilting shop in Chillicothe, Ohio. This led her to joining a quilt group at home in West Virginia. Kay joined the Conway Quilters whenever she and her husband moved to South Carolina permanently three years ago.
The program will be held at the Horry County Museum, 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.

Featured Quilter: Pam Whitaker
2022-03-23 11:00 | Horry County Museum, 805 Main Street, Conway, SC, 29526, United States
We’re celebrating textiles throughout March at the Horry County Museum. Join us Wednesday, March 23rd as local quilter Pam Whitaker shares quilts from her personal collection.
The program will begin at 11:00 AM at the Horry County Museum, 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.

Warm, Fuzzy Quilts of Childhood
2022-03-24 13:00 | Horry County Museum, 805 Main Street, Conway, SC, 29526, United States
Brenda Grampsas, Certified Quilt Appraiser asks, “Don’t you just love all the cute items purchased and made for a new baby in your family or circle of friends?” One of the reasons baby showers are so fun is the wonderful gift items we all ooh and ah over. Baby & children’s quilts often give us a warm, fuzzy feeling and this trunk show features many vintage/antique quilts and coverlets from Brenda’s personal collection that do just that. Join us on March 24th at 1 PM for a trip down memory lane. You may be inspired to make your next baby or child’s gift a quilt.
Brenda Grampsas is an American Quilters Society Quilt Appraiser, certified in 2005. Brenda has a lifetime of sewing and quilting experience with a passion for all things quilted. Her experience in teaching the “how to” of quilting extends not only to adults but many years of quilting classes with children and teens. Watching others catch the “quilt bug” through her shared trunk shows, lectures and workshops feeds the natural teacher in her. She is inspired by quilts from many eras and is especially fascinated by scrap quilts because of their wide range of fabrics. Brenda is very involved in the restoration of quilts. Teaching others the art of restoration has become advantageous due to the many requests for restoration service. More information can be found on Brenda’s website www.thimbletales.com.
The program will begin at 1:00 PM at the Horry County Museum, 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.

Waccamaw Conference Keynote Speaker
2022-03-25 13:00 - 14:00 | Horry County Museum, 805 Main Street, Conway, SC, 29526, United States
Clean Water Act: PAST, PRESENT, & FUTURE
KEYNOTE PRESENTATION AT HORRY COUNTY MUSEUM ON FRIDAY MARCH 25TH AT 1 PM – 2 PM
Join us at the Horry County Museum or virtually for our keynote presentation, CWA: Past, Present, & Future, from Amy Armstrong. We will be hosting the presentation at the Horry County Museum’s auditorium as well as broadcasting live virtually. We will also record the presentation and post to our YouTube page following the event. More information about the full conference can be found at 2022 Waccamaw Conference – : (winyahrivers.org)
KEYNOTE PRESENTATION SYNOPSIS
It seems impossible to imagine today, but before the Clean Water Act, pollution discharges could get so bad that a river could catch on fire. In this session, SCELP Executive Director Amy Armstrong will talk about how this landmark law became a crucial legal tool to address water pollution and destruction across the county, including our very own Waccamaw River. However, 50 years after the inception of the Clean Water Act, our lakes, rivers and wetlands remain under threat due to legislative rollbacks, unrelenting development interests and climate change. Learn how you can take action to protect your waters and your community.
SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY
Amy Armstrong is the Executive Director of the South Carolina Environmental Law Project (SCELP), a nonprofit environmental law organization. She started working for SCELP in September 2002, after receiving a competitive two-year fellowship from Equal Justice Works, formerly the National Association of Public Interest Law.

Junior Curators at the Horry County Museum
2022-03-26 09:00 - 23:00 | Horry County Museum, 805 Main Street, Conway, SC, 29526, United States
Join us for free 30 minute Saturday activities at the Museum! Parents can sign children up for one of four 30 minute sessions between 9 AM-11 AM. Group sizes will be limited per session to help ensure social distancing. On March 26th, children will create thank you cards to give out to local veterans.
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.

Museum Matinee: General William Westmoreland-The Man Behind the Four Stars
2022-03-30 13:00 | Horry County Museum, 805 Main Street, Conway, SC, 29526, United States
The 2022 Horry County Museum Documentary Film Series continues with General William Westmoreland: The Man Behind the Four Stars. Part of the Carolina Stories Series by SCETV, this 30 minute film is the story of General Westmoreland, an Eagle Scout from Spartanburg County, who earned medals for bravery in World War II and became a Four-Star General, and the Military Commander of Allied Forces in Vietnam from 1964-1968. Historians, family and friends remember the uncompromising values of the man behind the four stars.
The film is free to the public and will be shown at 1:00 PM, Wednesday, March 30th, 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 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.

Free Children’s Program at the L.W. Paul Living History Farm
2022-04-02 09:00 - 11:00 | L.W. Paul Living History Farm, 2279 Harris Short Cut Rd, Conway, SC, 29526, United States
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 April 2nd children will learn about the different states of matter for water, and evaporation and absorption. Children will also use dyed water to create lasting designs once the water evaporates!
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.

This is Brookgreen Gardens
2022-04-06 13:00 | Horry County Museum, 805 Main Street, Conway, SC, 29526, United States
The 2022 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, April 6th, 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 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.

Spring Planting Day
2022-04-09 09:00 - 12:00 | L.W. Paul Living History Farm, 2279 Harris Short Cut Rd, Conway, SC, 29526, United States
Visitors of all ages are invited to join us Saturday, April 9th from 9 AM-12 PM at the L.W. Paul Living History Farm for our annual Spring Planting Day. Stop by to learn about the different types of plants that would have been important to the farm family and how they would have prepared their spring garden. We’ll have a variety of demonstrations throughout the Farm including cooking, planting, activities for children, and more!
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 from 1900-1955. 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.

Fallen Heros
2022-04-13 13:00 | Horry County Museum, 805 Main Street, Conway, SC, 29526, United States
The 2022 Horry County Museum Documentary Film Series continues with Fallen Heroes, part of the Carolina Stories Series from ETV. This 30 minute film features the World War II stories of William Farrow and Thomas Dry Howie. William Farrow was one of 80 airmen who volunteered to fly 16 B-25 Mitchell bombers in the Doolittle Raid, taking off from the USS Hornet aircraft carrier, bombing Japan, and then landing in China. Thomas Dry Howie was given command of the 3rd Battalion and sent to take the pivotal town of Saint-Lo in the Battle of Normandy.
The film is free to the public and will be shown at 1:00 PM, Wednesday, April 13th, 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 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.

Closed County Holiday
2022-04-15, 2022-04-16 | Horry County Museum, 805 Main Street, Conway, SC, 29526, United States

The Baruchs of Hobcaw
2022-04-20 13:00 | Horry County Museum, 805 Main Street, Conway, SC, 29526, United States
The 2022 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, April 20th, 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 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.

Free Children’s Program at the L.W. Paul Living History Farm
2022-04-23 09:00 - 11:00 | L.W. Paul Living History Farm, 2279 Harris Short Cut Rd, Conway, SC, 29526, United States
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 April 23rd children will discuss which insects they think are friends and which ones are foes. We’ll also make a notebook of local insects using rubbing plates that children can color at home.
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.

Chris Boyle-Lowcountry Agricultural & Convivial Societies.
2022-04-23 13:00 | Horry County Museum, 805 Main Street, Conway, SC, 29526, United States
The Horry County Museum and the AVX Foundation present a program by local author and historian Christopher Boyle on Saturday, April 23rd, on his new book Lowcountry Agricultural and Convivial Societies
“Throughout the first century of South Carolina’s settlement, rice was an important crop but the rice industry did not experience its first boom until the 1720s and 1730s. This book explores the purpose of the social organizations as well as the moral, economic, cultural, and political challenges of the Antebellum Georgetown rice planters. Within the protected confines of their organizations, planters felt safe discussing local and national politics, advancements to their educational system, and agricultural and livestock improvements to better compete with the Industrial North. The alliance of “brothers of the soil” helped solidify South Carolina’s Lowcountry politically. The agricultural alliances of the region promoted Southern Nationalism and provided one pillar for Southerners to the American Civil War.”
Christopher C. Boyle is the international baccalaureate history teacher at Socastee High School in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, and a part-time teaching associate at Coastal Carolina University in Conway. Upon graduation from Coastal Carolina University with his bachelor’s degree in history, he further studied history at Winthrop University where he graduated in 1996 with his Master of Arts degree in American history. In addition to having written numerous articles for scholarly journals, Boyle is the author of Mansfield Plantation: A Legacy on the Black River and The Road to Secession in Antebellum Georgetown & Horry Districts.
The program will begin at 1:00 pm in the McCown Auditorium located at 805 Main Street, Conway S.C. 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.

Forgotten Founder: Charles Pinckney.
2022-04-27 13:00 | Horry County Museum, 805 Main Street, Conway, SC, 29526, United States
The 2022 Horry County Museum Documentary Film Series continues with Forgotten Founder: Charles Pinckney. Part of the Carolina Stories Series by SCETV, this film is an historical visualization of the biography of Charles Pinckney, whose life serves as the basis for much of where and how we live today. Through the use of original digital artwork, period illustrations, historical documents, dramatic reenactments, and studio interviews, this program weaves a tapestry that tells the story of a true public servant whose contributions to the birth of our nation and state are matched by no other historical figure.
The film is free to the public and will be shown at 1:00 PM, Wednesday, April 27th, 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 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.

Free Children’s Program at the L.W. Paul Living History Farm
2022-04-30 09:00 - 11:00 | L.W. Paul Living History Farm, 2279 Harris Short Cut Rd, Conway, SC, 29526, United States
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 April 30th kids will learn how to make homemade ink using berries, and have the chance to write or draw with a feather quill.
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.

Patrick McCawley: “To Preserve us from Utter Ruine”: The Revolution of 1719
2022-04-30 13:00 | Horry County Museum, 805 Main Street, Conway, SC, 29526, United States
The Horry County Museum and the AVX Foundation present a program by Patrick McCawley on The Revolution of 1719 in South Carolina on Saturday, April 30th at 1:00 PM.
This lecture will explore the largely forgotten bloodless Revolution of 1719 in Charles Town and its lasting impact on South Carolina history. In 1719, the elected representatives of the Province of Carolina requested the protection of the British Crown. Over the first fifty years of the colony’s existence, the Lords Proprietors, the owners of the colony, had struggled with the colonists over economic and political control of the settlement. Internal squabbles and external dangers that threatened the colony led the settlers to rebel against the proprietors and ask the King to take over control of Carolina. This step would set the province on a new path towards self-determination and the idea that political power is derived from the people.
Patrick McCawley has been with the South Carolina Department of Archives and History since 1986. Patrick spent the first 21 years with the department as archivist with Reference Services branch, where he handled research queries dealing with the Civil War and other SC military related events. In 2007, he became the Accessions Archivist and supervisor of the Archival Processing Unit. In 2018, he was also given responsibility for the agency’s Records Management Unit and State Record Center which holds long term non-current, non-archival records.
Patrick has authored several publications for the department including a Guide to Civil War Records: A Guide to the Records in the South Carolina Department of Archives and History and The Many Faces of Slavery, a documentary reader on slave life in South Carolina. He has curated several exhibits for the agency including “’To preserve us from utter ruine’: The Revolution of 1719.” Born and raised in Maryland, just outside of Washington, DC, Patrick received his BA degree in American History from the University of Maryland and attended the Applied History program at the University of South Carolina in Columbia. He lives in Chapin, SC.
The program will begin at 1:00 pm in the McCown Auditorium located at 805 Main Street, Conway S.C. 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.

South Carolinians in WWII: A Time to Fight
2022-05-04 13:00 | Horry County Museum, 805 Main Street, Conway, SC, 29526, United States
The 2022 Horry County Museum Documentary Film Series continues with South Carolinians in WWII: A Time to Fight. This documentary series is a collective remembrance of World War II, taken from personal stories of South Carolina veterans. Beginning with Pearl Harbor, the films weave together first person accounts of the first stages of the war and includes segments on Fort Jackson and the Citadel, as well as veterans Moffatt Burriss and Theodore Bell of Columbia. Doolittle Raider Bill Farrow of Darlington, who became South Carolina’s first hero after he was executed by the Japanese, is also featured.
The film is free to the public and will be shown at 1:00 PM, Wednesday, May 4th, 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 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.

Jr. Program-Ice Cream in a Bag
2022-05-07 09:00 - 11:00 | L.W. Paul Living History Farm, 2279 Harris Short Cut Rd, Conway, SC, 29526, United States
Free Children’s Program at the L.W. Paul Living History Farm
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 May 7th children are invited to learn how to make ice cream in a bag!
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.

Eric Crawford: Gullah Spirituals
2022-05-07 13:00 | SC
The Horry County Museum and the AVX Foundation present a lecture by musicologist Eric Crawford on May 7th on his book, Gullah Spirituals: The Sound of Freedom & Protest in the South Carolina Sea Islands.
Join us to learn the history of Gullah Geechee songs from their beginnings in West Africa to their height as songs for social change and Black identity in the twentieth century American South. While much has been done to study, preserve, and interpret Gullah culture in the lowcountry and sea islands of South Carolina and Georgia, some traditions like the shouting and rowing songs have been all but forgotten. This work, which focuses primarily on South Carolina’s St. Helena Island, illuminates the remarkable history, survival, and influence of spirituals since the earliest recordings in the 1860s.
Eric Sean Crawford is the director of the Benedict College Honors Program and holds a Ph.D. in musicology from the Catholic University of America. He is the former director of the Charles W. Joyner Institute for Gullah and African Diaspora Studies at Coastal Carolina University, served as musical consultant for the Amazon series Underground Railroad, and is featured in Henry Louis Gates’s miniseries, The Black Church.
The program will begin at 1:00 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.

South Carolinians in WWII: A New Front
2022-05-11 13:00 | Horry County Museum, 805 Main Street, Conway, SC, 29526, United States
The 2022 Horry County Museum Documentary Film Series continues with South Carolinians in WWII: A New Front. The second episode of the series follows veterans living in South Carolina through the mountains of Italy, into the fields of England and onto the beaches of Normandy. Also featured are South Carolina doctors and nurses who served and the rise of the Charleston Navy Yard.
The film is free to the public and will be shown at 1:00 PM, Wednesday, May 11th, 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 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.
