Closed for Juneteenth Holiday
2022-06-18 | Horry County Museum, 805 Main Street, Conway, SC, 29526, United States

Finding Clovis
2022-06-22 13:00 UTC | Horry County Museum, 805 Main Street, Conway, SC, 29526, United States
The 2022 Horry County Museum Documentary Film Series continues with Finding Clovis. This 30 minute film takes viewers on an archeological adventure at the Topper dig site in Allendale County, South Carolina. Famous for Clovis and pre-Clovis artifacts, there is recent evidence that may support the theory that a comet suddenly wiped out the Clovis culture 13,000 years ago. World renowned scientists offer their opinions about these significant first Americans, where they came from, how they lived, and what may have been their fate.
The film is free to the public and will be shown at 1:00 PM, Wednesday, June 22nd, 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.

Eric Crawford-Gullah Spirituals
2022-06-25 13:00 | SC
“Eric Crawford: Gullah Spirituals: The Sound of Freedom & Protest in the South Carolina Sea Islands”
The Horry County Museum and the AVX Foundation present a lecture by musicologist Eric Crawford on June 25th 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.

Jr. Program-Fruits & Veggies
2022-06-28 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 June 28th children will learn about local fruits and vegetables. We’ll also make a notebook using real fruits and veggies as stamps!
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.

Jr. Program-Owl Pellets
2022-06-29 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 June 29th children will learn about the importance of the barn owl to the farm family. We’ll also dissect real barn owl pellets to learn what these local birds of prey like to eat!
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.

Chasing the Swamp Fox
2022-06-29 13:00 | Horry County Museum, 805 Main Street, Conway, SC, 29526, United States
The 2022 Horry County Museum Documentary Film Series continues with Chasing the Swamp Fox. This film, part of the Carolina Stories Series by SCETV, details Francis Marion’s partisan campaigns during the American Revolution in South Carolina and paints a mosaic of what life was like in those years and how Marion’s participation led to the birth of modern day guerilla warfare as well as the liberation of our country.
The film is free to the public and will be shown at 1:00 PM, Wednesday, June 29th, 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-Fossil Dig
2022-06-30 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 June 30th children will learn about the prehistoric animals that lived in Horry County and participate in a mini fossil dig.
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.

Closed for Holiday
2022-07-02 | Horry County Museum, 805 Main Street, Conway, SC, 29526, United States
Closed for Independence Day

Lions in Blue & Gray.
2022-07-06 13:00 | Horry County Museum, 805 Main Street, Conway, SC, 29526, United States
The 2022 Horry County Museum Documentary Film Series continues with the locally produced film Lions in Blue & Gray: Joshua Chamberlain & Stonewall Jackson. Produced and narrated by historian Rod Gragg, this film follows the lives of two leading Generals in the American Civil War.
As Colonel of the 20th Maine Infantry, Joshua Chamberlain is credited by many as saving the battle of Gettysburg for the Union Army through his defense of Little Round Top. Stonewall Jackson was renowned as a southern military genius and was known as General Robert E. Lee’s “right arm” before his death following the battle of Chancellorsville.
The film is free to the public and will be shown at 1:00 PM, Wednesday, July 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.

The Korean War & Horry County
2022-07-09 13:00 | SC
“The Impact of the Korean War on Horry County”
The Horry County Museum and the AVX Foundation present a lecture Nicholas Gallagher and Brogan Will on the impact of the Korean War on Horry County on Saturday, July 9th at 1 PM.
Both Gallagher and Will were Prince Fellows during the 2021-2022 school year at Coastal Carolina University and conducted extensive research on Horry County during the Korean War. Nicholas is a History major at CCU, and will graduate in December. He is a South Carolina Teaching Fellow and a member of the Phi Alpha Theta Honor Society. His research project examines the collective memory, as well as the impacts, of the Korean War on Horry County.
Brogan recently graduated with a BA in History from CCU, and is currently enrolled as a graduate student at CCU in the Masters in the Art of Teaching program. His research project examines the life, death, and repatriation of Master Sergeant Ernest Grainger, a soldier who was missing in action in Korea, until his remains were returned in 2012.
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.

SC Hall of Fame Colonial Era Inductees
2022-07-13 13:00 | Horry County Museum, 805 Main Street, Conway, SC, 29526, United States
The 2022 Horry County Museum Documentary Film Series continues a documentary by South Carolina ETV on inductees from the Colonial Era into the South Carolina Hall of Fame. Established in 1973, The South Carolina Hall of Fame, located in Myrtle Beach, inducts one deceased and one contemporary honoree each year. It is by law the “official” Hall of Fame for South Carolina. There are nearly 100 members of the South Carolina Hall of Fame, each of whom has made outstanding contributions to South Carolina’s heritage, history, and progress.
Biographies of Colonial Era inductees include King Hagler, Eliza Pinckney, Henry Laurens, Thomas Lynch, Sr., William Henry Drayton, Thomas Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch, Jr., Arthur Middleton, and Edward Rutledge.
The film is free to the public and will be shown at 1:00 PM, Wednesday, July 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.

The History, Discovery, and Recovery of the CSS Pee Dee armament at the Mars Bluff Naval Yard
2022-07-16 13:00 | Horry County Museum, 805 Main Street, Conway, SC, 29526, United States
The Horry County Museum and the AVX Foundation present a lecture by State Underwater Archaeologist Jim Spirek on the History and Recovery of the CSS Pee Dee on July 16th at 1 PM.
In 2019, three cannons from the CSS Pee Dee were installed between the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs building and the National Cemetery in Florence, South Carolina. The cannons were jettisoned at the Mars Bluff Naval Yard and the gunboat scuttled in the Great Pee Dee River during the waning days of the American Civil War. The presence of these cannons represents the culmination of several decades of searching, discovering, recovering and conserving them for public display. Situated between these two military edifices, the display was not intended as a memorial, but rather to reflect on the sacrifices made by those in the armed services and of the complexity of human conflict. The project to document and recover the cannons relied on private and public partnerships. This presentation will provide historical background and archaeological findings from the investigations of the cannons, CSS Pee Dee, and the Mars Bluff Naval Yard.
James Spirek, the State Underwater Archaeologist for South Carolina, works at the South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of South Carolina, Columbia. Employed there since 1996 and holding his current position since 2012, Jim’s responsibilities include managing and studying the maritime archaeological legacy residing in the lakes, rivers, and coastal waters of South Carolina. Jim has participated in numerous projects documenting a diverse range of sunken prehistoric and historic watercraft, Colonial and Native American sites, Civil War warships and blockade runners, and other underwater archaeological remains in state waters. He is co-editor of Submerged Cultural Resource Management: Preserving and Interpreting Our Sunken Maritime Heritage, and a co-contributor to Archaeology in South Carolina: Exploring the Hidden Heritage of the Palmetto State, Florida’s Lost Galleon: The Emanuel Point Shipwreck, and Guns of the Pee Dee: The Cannon Recovery. Jim received his B.A. in History from George Mason University in 1987 and his M.A. in Maritime History and Nautical Archaeology from East Carolina University in 1993.
The program will be held on July 16th 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.

SC Hall of Fame Revolutionary War Era Inductees
2022-07-20 13:00 | Horry County Museum, 805 Main Street, Conway, SC, 29526, United States
The 2022 Horry County Museum Documentary Film Series continues a documentary by South Carolina ETV on inductees from the Revolutionary War Era into the South Carolina Hall of Fame. Established in 1973, The South Carolina Hall of Fame, located in Myrtle Beach, inducts one deceased and one contemporary honoree each year. It is by law the “official” Hall of Fame for South Carolina. There are nearly 100 members of the South Carolina Hall of Fame, each of whom has made outstanding contributions to South Carolina’s heritage, history, and progress.
Biographies of Revolutionary War Era inductees include William Moultrie, Francis Marion, Thomas Sumter, Andrew Pickens, Peter Horry, William Jasper, Pierce Butler, Charles Pinckney, C.C. Pinckney, and John Rutledge.
The film is free to the public and will be shown at 1:00 PM, Wednesday, July 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.

Steve Smith-Francis Marion
2022-07-23 13:00 | SC
“Steven Smith: Francis Marion and the Snow’s Island Community: Myth, History and Archaeology”
The Horry County Museum and the AVX Foundation present a lecture by Steven Smith on July 23rd on his book, Francis Marion and the Snow’s Island Community: Myth, History and Archaeology.
Loyalist Colonel Robert Gray described South Carolina as “a piece of patch work, the inhabitants of every settlement, when united in sentiment being in arms for the side they liked best and making continual inroads into one another’s settlements.” One of those pieces of patch work, the people living on and surrounding Snow’s Island, South Carolina, were ‘united in sentiment’ against the British crown. This community of partisans had joined the rebellion as early as 1775 and had stubbornly refused to surrender, even when Charleston fell in 1780. They had supplied food, forage, and blood to the rebellion and, under the leadership of General Francis Marion, had become an obstacle to British control of the southern colonies. This is their story.
Steven D. Smith, is a Research Professor at the South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of South Carolina. He is the former Director of the Institute, and has over 40 years’ experience in historical archaeology, largely focused on military sites of the American Revolution in the South. He has conducted excavations associated with Francis Marion and American Revolutionary War battlefields including the siege of Fort Motte, Parker’s Ferry, Black Mingo, Snow’s Island, Camden, the siege of Ninety Six, and the battle of Williamson’s Plantation. He is the author or co-author of six books, including, Partisans, Guerillas, and Irregulars: Historical Archaeology of Asymmetric Warfare, 2019, University of Alabama Press, and Francis Marion and the Snow’s Island Community, United Writers Press, 2021. His latest book, coauthored with Colonel Kevin Dougherty, is entitled Leading Like the Swamp Fox: The Leadership Lessons of Francis Marion, Casemate Publishers, was just published in June.
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.

Master Artists Concert Series
2022-07-23 19:30 | SC
“Master Artists Concert Series Performance at the Horry County Museum”
The Horry County Museum and Varna International will host a free concert featuring artists from The Master Artists Concert Series, part of Muzika! The Grand Strand Music Festival, on Saturday, July 23rd at 7:30 PM. The public is invited to join us for an evening of the sumptuous strains of Canteloube, Saint-Saens, de Falla and more by master artists Yura Choi, Mezzo Soprano, Michael Emery, Violin, John Wickey, Harp, and Rita Dunn, Harp.
Kalin and Sharon Tchonev started Varna International twenty years ago with the goal to bring high quality choral training to Bulgarian school teachers. Their company has since grown into a globally recognized festival organizer that specializes in large-scale performances and music training academies for conductors, singers, and instrumentalists throughout Europe, Israel, and the United States. Varna International’s upcoming event, Muzika! The Grand Strand Music Festival will take place throughout the Grand Strand from July 1st through August 3rd. For more information, visit www.varnainternational.com.
The Master Artists Concert will be held in the Museum’s McCown Auditorium located at 805 Main Street, Conway, SC 29526. Admission is free and open to the public, no reservations are required. For more information, call 843-915-5320 or email hcgmuseum@horrycounty.org. For more information about our programs, visit the museum website at www.horrycountymuseum.org.

SC Hall of Fame Antebellum Era Inductees
2022-07-27 13:00 | Horry County Museum, 805 Main Street, Conway, SC, 29526, United States
The 2022 Horry County Museum Documentary Film Series continues a documentary by South Carolina ETV on inductees from the Antebellum Era into the South Carolina Hall of Fame. Established in 1973, The South Carolina Hall of Fame, located in Myrtle Beach, inducts one deceased and one contemporary honoree each year. It is by law the “official” Hall of Fame for South Carolina. There are nearly 100 members of the South Carolina Hall of Fame, each of whom has made outstanding contributions to South Carolina’s heritage, history, and progress.
Biographies of Antebellum Era inductees include Thomas Pinckney, Andrew Jackson, Joel Poinsett, Robert Mills, William Gregg, Dave the Potter, William Gilmore Simms, William Travis & James Bonham.
The film is free to the public and will be shown at 1:00 PM, Wednesday, July 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.

The South Carolina Dispensary System and Prohibition
2022-07-30 13:00 | Horry County Museum, 805 Main Street, Conway, SC, 29526, United States
Join Horry County Museum’s Technical Assistant Abigail Geedy on July 30th at 1 PM as she discusses the South Carolina Dispensary System and Prohibition in the state. By the early 1890s, many assumed South Carolina was on the verge of declaring prohibition, but in 1892 the dispensary system passed as an alternative. It wouldn’t be until multiple versions of the dispensary system fell out of favor that state prohibition was passed in 1915, followed not far after by Federal Prohibition. This talk discusses an overview of the history and controversies of the dispensary system and state and federal prohibition with a focus on Horry County’s thoughts and reactions.
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 had worked in curation at the South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology for 5 years before joining the Horry County Museum as a Technical Assistant. She has also previously worked as an intern or volunteer at the York County Heritage Trust in York, PA, the Pennsylvania State Museum in Harrisburg, PA and McKissick Museum in Columbia, SC.
The program will begin at 1:00 pm on July 30th 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.

The Last Auction
2022-08-03 13:00 | Horry County Museum, 805 Main Street, Conway, SC, 29526, United States
The 2022 Horry County Museum Documentary Film Series continues with The Last Auction, part of the Carolina Stories Series from ETV. For more than 100 years Mullins was the major tobacco market for South Carolina. Since 1997, the tobacco allotment has been cut in half, textile manufacturers have moved away and Mullins, a town of 5,000 has lost more than 1,200 jobs. Although The Last Auction is the story of a small South Carolina town, the issues it explores: agricultural mechanization, rural unemployment, exodus of youth from small towns, and loss of manufacturing jobs, are of national significance.
The film is free to the public and will be shown at 1:00 PM, Wednesday, August 3rd, 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.

Tobacco Heritage Day at the L.W. Paul Living History Farm
2022-08-06 09:00 - 12:00 | L.W. Paul Living History Farm, 2279 Harris Short Cut Rd, Conway, SC, 29526, United States
Experience life on the ‘one horse family farm’ from 1900-1955 at the L.W. Paul Living History Farm. For much of the 20th century, tobacco was the main cash crop for Horry County and the Pee Dee Region. During the late summer, leaves would be gathered and taken to the barn to be strung and cured, this process required participation from all family members, down to young children, whose job would be to hand the tobacco leaves to a stringer. Join us to relive this experience on Tobacco Heritage Day, Saturday, August 6th, from 9:00 AM until 12:00 PM. Demonstrations will include gathering, hand tying and stringing tobacco, and a variety of other farm activities.
The L.W. Paul Living History Farm is located at the corner of Hwy 701 North and Harris Short Cut Road in Conway, SC. This event is free and open to the public. For more information, call the L.W. Paul Living History Farm at 843-915-5321 or email the Horry County Museum at hcgmuseum@horrycounty.org. For a full list of programs, visit our website at www.horrycountymuseum.org.

Civil War & Reconstruction Era into the South Carolina Hall of Fame
2022-08-10 13:00 | Horry County Museum, 805 Main Street, Conway, SC, 29526, United States
The 2022 Horry County Museum Documentary Film Series continues with a documentary by South Carolina ETV on inductees from the Civil War & Reconstruction Era into the South Carolina Hall of Fame. Established in 1973, The South Carolina Hall of Fame, located in Myrtle Beach, inducts one deceased and one contemporary honoree each year. It is by law the “official” Hall of Fame for South Carolina. There are nearly 100 members of the South Carolina Hall of Fame, each of whom has made outstanding contributions to South Carolina’s heritage, history, and progress.
Biographies of Civil War & Reconstruction era inductees include John C. Calhoun, James Petigru, Wade Hampton, Mary Chestnut, Robert Smalls, Thomas Green Clemson, William Walker, James Marion Sims, and Anne Pamela Cunningham.
The film is free to the public and will be shown at 1:00 PM, Wednesday, August 10th, 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.

The End of the Road Bluegrass Band to perform at the Horry County Museum
2022-08-13 13:00 | Horry County Museum, 805 Main Street, Conway, SC, 29526, United States
The Horry County Museum presents a free traditional bluegrass concert by The End of the Road Bluegrass Band on Saturday, August 13th, at 1:00 PM. The End of the Road Bluegrass Band is a regional band based out of Conway, South Carolina. Formed in 2001, the band plays traditional bluegrass and bluegrass gospel music. They have performed in several venues and churches, including a monthly concert series held by the Rivertown Bluegrass Society and the Southeastern Bluegrass Association of SC. The band also performed at the first annual Sea Mountain Fiddlers Convention and Bluegrass Festival where they shared the stage with such bands as Alan Bibey & Grasstowne, Carolina Blue, and The Virginia Luthiers. Band members include Joe Hudson on guitar/vocals, Ron Mew on mandolin/vocals, Blake Marlowe on banjo/vocals, Dean Hudson on Bass/vocals, and Stephanie Sullivan on fiddle. For more information about The End of the Road Bluegrass Band, visit their website at www.endoftheroadbluegrass.com.
The concert will be held in the Museum’s McCown Auditorium located at 805 Main Street, Conway, SC 29526. For more information, call 843-915-5320 or email hcgmuseum@horrycounty.org. For more information about our programs, visit the museum website at www.horrycountymuseum.org.

The Battle of Camden
2022-08-17 13:00 | Horry County Museum, 805 Main Street, Conway, SC, 29526, United States
The 2022 Horry County Museum Documentary Film Series continues with The Battle of Camden, part of the Carolina Stories Series from ETV. In this film, Revolutionary War re-enactors help tell the story of this crucial event in American history, one of the worst American battle defeats in the Revolution. From new guerilla tactics employed by American militia to the actions of an over-confident king, the tragic events that transpired on August 16, 1780 became the catalyst that led to the birth of a nation.
The film is free to the public and will be shown at 1:00 PM, Wednesday, August 17th, 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
2022-08-20 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 August 20th children will learn about the importance of electricity to rural farm families and conduct experiments using static and current electricity.
For information about available times and to register, contact Marian Calder at 843-915-7861 or email calder.marian@horrycountysc.gov . 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.

Empowering Communities: How Electric Cooperatives Transformed Rural South Carolina
2022-08-20 13:00 | Horry County Museum, 805 Main Street, Conway, SC, 29526, United States
The Horry County Museum presents a lecture by Lacy Ford on August 20th at 1 PM on the impact of electric cooperatives on rural South Carolina.
In the early 1900s, for profit companies like Duke Power and South Carolina Electric and Gas provided electricity to heavily populated cities and towns throughout South Carolina. It wasn’t until the creation of publicly owned electric cooperatives in the 1930s that rural South Carolinians were gradually introduced to electricity in their homes. Today, electric cooperatives serve more than a quarter of South Carolina’s citizens and more than seventy percent of the state’s land area, bringing not only power but also high-speed broadband to rural communities.
The rise of “public” power—electricity serviced by member-owned cooperatives and sanctioned by federal and state legislation—is a complicated saga encompassing politics, law, finance, and rural economic development. Empowering Communities examines how the cooperatives helped bring fundamental and transformational change to the lives of rural people in South Carolina, from light to broadband.
Twice a National Endowment for the Humanities Research Fellow and once an ACLS Fellow, Lacy Ford’s most recent book is Empowering Communities: How Electric Cooperatives Transformed Rural South Carolina. Ford is also the author of Deliver Us From Evil: The Slavery Question in the Old South. Deliver Us From Evil also won the 2010 Mary Lawton Hodges prize for best book on the South published in 2009. Ford authored Origins of Southern Radicalism: The South Carolina Upcountry, 1800-1860, which won the Francis B. Simkins Prize, 1988-1989, and was reviewed in The New York Review of Books by James M. McPherson.
Ford is currently Scholar-in-Residence in the Institute for Southern Studies at the University of South Carolina. He is also Emeritus Professor of History at the University of South Carolina and Dean Emeritus of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of South Carolina, which he served as Dean from July 2016 through December 2020. Previously he served as Senior Vice Provost and Dean of Graduate Studies, 2010-2016 at the U of SC. His scholarly interests are the political and economic history of the American South. He is currently working on a book tentatively titled Understandings of the American South: Slavery, Race, Identity, The American Century, and the Meaning of The Civil War.
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.

SC Hall of Fame Early 20th Century Inductees
2022-08-24 13:00 | Horry County Museum, 805 Main Street, Conway, SC, 29526, United States
The 2022 Horry County Museum Documentary Film Series continues with a documentary by South Carolina ETV on inductees from the early 20th century into the South Carolina Hall of Fame. Established in 1973, The South Carolina Hall of Fame, located in Myrtle Beach, inducts one deceased and one contemporary honoree each year. It is by law the “official” Hall of Fame for South Carolina. There are nearly 100 members of the South Carolina Hall of Fame, each of whom has made outstanding contributions to South Carolina’s heritage, history, and progress.
Biographies of early 20th century inductees include James Lide Coker, Walker Gill Wylie, Bernard Baruch, Susan Pringle Frost, Mary McLeod Bethune, Anna Hyatt Huntington, Julia Mood Peterkin, and James F. Byrnes.
The film is free to the public and will be shown at 1:00 PM, Wednesday, August 24th, 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
2022-08-27 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 August 27th children will learn how families in the past made butter. They’ll also make their own butter to sample!
For information about available times and to register, contact Marian Calder at 843-915-7861 or email calder.marian@horrycountysc.gov . 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 Impact of Flue-Cured Tobacco on Horry County, SC
2022-08-27 13:00 | Horry County Museum, 805 Main Street, Conway, SC, 29526, United States
“Horry County Museum Lecture Series: Auction Houses, Attempted Co-ops, and Allotments: The Impact of Flue-Cured Tobacco on Horry County, SC”

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 August 27th 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.

SC Hall of Fame Early 20th Century Inductees
2022-08-31 13:00 | Horry County Museum, 805 Main Street, Conway, SC, 29526, United States
The 2022 Horry County Museum Documentary Film Series continues with part two of a documentary by South Carolina ETV on inductees from the early 20th century into the South Carolina Hall of Fame. Established in 1973, The South Carolina Hall of Fame, located in Myrtle Beach, inducts one deceased and one contemporary honoree each year. It is by law the “official” Hall of Fame for South Carolina. There are nearly 100 members of the South Carolina Hall of Fame, each of whom has made outstanding contributions to South Carolina’s heritage, history, and progress.
Biographies of early 20th century inductees include Wil Lou Gray, Archibald Rutledge, Elizabeth O’Neill Verner, Mary Simms Oliphant, Ann Austin Young, Benjamin Mays, Elliott White Springs, Septima Clark, and Maude Callen.
The film is free to the public and will be shown at 1:00 PM, Wednesday, August 31st, 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
2022-09-03 | SC
Closed September 3rd for Labor Day.

South Carolina Hall of Fame
2022-09-07 13:00 | Horry County Museum, 805 Main Street, Conway, SC, 29526, United States
The 2022 Horry County Museum Documentary Film Series continues with a documentary by South Carolina ETV on inductees from the 20th century into the South Carolina Hall of Fame. Established in 1973, The South Carolina Hall of Fame, located in Myrtle Beach, inducts one deceased and one contemporary honoree each year. It is by law the “official” Hall of Fame for South Carolina. There are nearly 100 members of the South Carolina Hall of Fame, each of whom has made outstanding contributions to South Carolina’s heritage, history, and progress.
Biographies of 20th century inductees include Elizabeth B. Coker, Philip Simmons, William Westmoreland, William S. Hall, Roger Milliken, Charles Townes, William J. Bryan Dorn, Frances Edmunds, and Dizzy Gillespie.
The film is free to the public and will be shown at 1:00 PM, Wednesday, September 7th, 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.
